15/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : DesignByGrid.com
Richard Rutter : Design By Grid - Showcase, articles and tutorials for grid design.
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15/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Isofarro : Outrageous - Mark's story about how he was effectively pressurised against his will into applying for a patent. Mark's unsettled me because its one of my fears of working for a US company with a known patent portfolio, particularly when I've created an idea that could
nelson : Patent shame - Mark shares his feelings about being caught up in the stupid US patent system
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim on the US patent system - "an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable"
deusx : Outrageous [dive into mark] - "It’s an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable. I’m ashamed to have been a part of it."
kaninka.net : Outrageous [dive into mark]
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15/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jimray : The life of the Rev. Jerry Falwell - Built as a template by my colleague and occasional prankster Colin Hicks. Nice work.
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15/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jimray : Digg labs releases Arc - Shows activity at the topic and subtopic level, not just stories. Say what you will about Digg, the visualization stuff they're doing is damn cool.
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15/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
philgyford : BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - Milton Court - the tower has been rejected - Excellent -- the proposed plan to redevelop the Barbican's Milton Court has been "sent back" by the planning committee.
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15/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : BBC News: Jakob Nielsen Says Web 2.0 Neglects Good Design
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jimray : MySpace News is a ghost town - I mean, I don't wanna be a cynic, but do you really expect 14 year old kids to be in to this?
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15/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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15/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
jimray : Beware the 'blogola' - Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.
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deusx : KAMN Show #28: A Fire Upon the Deep - "Summer, David and Tim gather together to discuss Vernor Vinge’s Hugo Award-winning “A Fire Upon the Deep”, but first give an update on Joe Murphy."
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15/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : mnot’s Web log: Expires vs. max-age
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15/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Dr. Strangelove scenes recreated with everyday stuff [via]
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15/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : YBOX - "YBox is a prototype/proof-of-concept for an ultra-cheap, always on, internet appliance that attaches to a standard TV set. The YBox is like Konfabulator for TV, turning TV into a platform for helpful, easy-to-read, live internet "channels"
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15/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
jcgregorio : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
jimray : Matt Haughey's got some tips on how to do online communities right - "If you're building a community you have to love what you're doing and be the best member of it." Well put, probably explains why most "communities" built by large companies are so spectacularly bad (guilty).
WillPate : Some Community Tips for 2007
François Nonnenmacher : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Seven tips on how to run a successful community
Jeremy Zawodny : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Some Community Tips for 2007: smart stuff from Matt (as usual)
factoryjoe : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous - Every year or so I write a long post or do a presentation at a conference on the subject of community. Each time I approach the subject, I take what I've already written and add to it with recent things I've learned or learned long befor
Linkorama : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Matt has a nice new and helpful blog, how fortuitous
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15/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Ellie Hayman - the buyers' agent when the Kleiners sold their home
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15/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles - Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles. Stuart Colville shows how the Charles debugging proxy can be used to serve up hosted YUI files while developing offline. [via]
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15/05/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : SkyscraperCity - verlichting van de brandgrens in Rotterdam, 14 mei 2007 [via]
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15/05/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
jonhicks : Replacing Flash with something else - I love this kind of talk. Go Stuart!
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15/05/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Get Stephen Fry's obsequious tones to wake you up every morning... - It's almost like he was in bed with you, gently kneading your lower back to bring you gradually to a consciousness. Yes, it's that creepy!
Rod Begbie : The VOCO Clock: Stephen Fry-voiced Alarm Clock - I'd seen this advertised in Private Eye, but this is the first time I'd looked at the website. An alarm clock that wakes you up gently with one of 50 recordings by Stephen Fry. [via] #
Richard Rutter : Have Stephen Fry wake you up - Hideous clock; fabulous alarm.
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15/05/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Khoi Vinh : New York Design Week 200y: 19 May through 22 May - More industrial than graphic design, but it should be fun nevertheless.
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15/05/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Isofarro : Yahoo! UK Hack Day: 15th-16th June ‘07 - Hackday is on 15th and 16th June 2007 in London, UK - organised by Yahoo! and the BBC. I'd love to see a group of Flash developers showing off their skills - showing the AJAX crowd how to really do a mashup. There are still a few places left (out of the o
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15/05/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Dan and Dan sell Cork’d - Sounds like it will only get better.
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15/05/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Introduction to Range objects - .
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15/05/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Real Costs - Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce website. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Tags: carbon offset
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15/05/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
factoryjoe : BBC NEWS | Technology | Finding myself through online identities - Our modern conception of privacy and of the nature of the individual is a product of the industrial age that is now passing, so it should not surprise us that we are finding new ways of constructing an identity online. As I spread mysel
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15/05/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
WillPate : What social science can tell you about flirting
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15/05/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine - erased out of existence by the company they started [via]
jimray : Derek Powazek and Heather Champ leave JPG magazine - Their partner at 8020 decided to rewrite the history of the mag so they left. Sad, indeed, but can't wait to see what they do next.
Eric Meyer : The Real Story of JPG Magazine - Sad, sad, sad.
nelson : The real story of JPG magazine - Founder troubles mean the ouster of the original JPG magazine editors
plasticbag : Derek Powazek on "The Real Story of JPG Magazine" - Derek provides his side of the story about how he left the company that he co-founded, and the reasons behind it.
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15/05/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of Steve Wozniak showing his binary watch and his nixie tube watch - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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15/05/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : quixoticals: Japanese Nintendo Commercial Featuring a Dancing Link - "Those moves are pure funk and would give Thriller era Michael Jackson a run for his money. Zelda... erm... Link here oozes dance floor confidence and you know he would school your ass."
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15/05/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Mark Robinson’s Top 11 Commencement Speeches - The fact that mine is number two has nothing to do with why it’s posted here. Really.
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15/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
jimray : Emoticons carry cultural baggage - How you smiley says a lot about where you're from
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15/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
WillPate : Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
kaninka.net : Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
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15/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
WillPate : Men are More Romantic than Women
adamrg : Men are More Romantic than Women
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15/05/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
joshua : Securing A Website With Client SSL Certificates - more complicated than it should be. and the browser ui is bad too
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15/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : all in the head — The State of Textpattern
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15/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Steampunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technologic
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15/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : New Yorker: What Else Is New? - Steven Shapin’s review of “The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1990” by David Edgerton is also a fascinating essay on the difference between innovation and use in technology. Highly recommended.
adamrg : What Else Is New? - Much of the world’s mechanical ingenuity is devoted to creating robust, reliable, and highly adapted “creole” technologies, an ingenuity that is largely invisible to us only because we happen to live in a low-maintenance, high-throwaway regime.
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15/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
jimray : TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows - I guess I should try this before they get the bejesus sued out of 'em
43folders : TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows - via http://twitter.com/jimray/statuses/557542452
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15/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
jimray : Reinventing newspapers is Murdoch's long-range goal - International Herald Tribune
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15/05/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress."
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15/05/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo & the Future of MyBlogLog? - Yahoo & the Future of MyBlogLog?: "That’s the frustration with Yahoo. For every smart move they make ... they seem to never follow through because of slow movement from within or the fear of creating something too advanced for the bulk of t
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15/05/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Telepresence - Telepresence: meeting room of the future? could be... in fact, this could be in your living room (or home office) once the costs come down
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15/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Breakdown in MySQL Enterprise process - Breakdown in MySQL Enterprise process: MySQL's community vs. enterprise is like RedHat vs. Fedora but kind of with the roles reversed. That's could lead to a lot of confusion and mis-managed expectation, I think...
jcgregorio : Breakdown in MySQL Enterprise process - Stuff flowing up from the community into the enterprise version is good, not the other way around.
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