22/05/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Alex Reisner on Baseball - An information design lens on the sport.
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22/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Five simple steps to designing grid systems
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22/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
cobra libre : "Time is going by really really really really slow." [via] #
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22/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : Amazon acquires dpreview.com - last week, but I completely missed it
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22/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Street Installations - clever outdoor art, soon to be appropriated by ad agencies [via]
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22/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Only Time You Will See A Picture Of One Of My Patients - EMT's tale of a cat found in a London building fire [via]
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22/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : If the Beatles Were Born Today - also: Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?
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22/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Crowd Porn at Coachella - music fans writhing in the desert heat [via]
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22/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Medallia Blog: jQuery Reference Widget - Dashboard widget for the JQuery docs. [via] #
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22/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tufte -- A New Style for Mint - Stylesheet for Mint in a Tufte-stylee. [via] #
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22/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now - "In a few years, things will be beautiful again. The big money will be slumbering away, and the marketing departments will be a distant memory. We can focus, once again, on the technology. And the burgers and beer."
Rod Begbie : Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now - Interesting post from Michael Arrington, up til now a cheerleader for Bubble 2.0. #
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22/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Zooomr using Ustream video chatroom for live updates during downtime - Thomas Hawk has been doing real-time Q&A for the last 14 hours while Zooomr's been offline
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22/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Onslaught - like Desktop Tower Defense, but with insane combos
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22/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Jeremy Boyle's self-playing pneumatic band - one of the more interesting Maker Faire hacks, read more on his site
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22/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
nelson : PowerTOP - Linux software to tell you what parts of your OS are using the most electricity
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22/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : "Scientists reject Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks" from the Guardian is a pretty interesting read... - Also good are statements from scientists indicating that it was "grossly unscientific" and "a scare story". I complained to Panorama via the BBC complaint line yesterday.
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nelson : Yazidi - A syncretic religion in northern Iraq, sadly in the news now for an "honor killing'.
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nelson : Gays steal babies - Homosexual flamingos, that is
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22/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Always mount a scratch monkey - The story behind the sysadmin wisdom
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22/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Scratch monkey #2 - An alternate version of the story. I know Laura Creighton, I should ask her.
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22/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Hoshi Saga - Lovely little puzzle game with interesting ui
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22/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jimray : Really nice form validation example using prototype and scriptaculous
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22/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Ten Reasons The World Needs Patent Covenants - Ten Reasons The World Needs Patent Covenants. Sun just made their OpenID patent covenant official. Simon Phipps explains why these are a Good Idea. [via]
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Khoi Vinh : Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies - Companion site to the book by James Sanders.
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22/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jimray : Dawdler - a longnow version of Twitter, with postcards - "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?"
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Linkorama : For Estonia and NATO, A New Kind of War - Elsewhere, this might not have mattered quite so much. A defense information specialist from another newish NATO member state told me, somewhat ruefully, that his country wouldn't be vulnerable to a cyber-attack because so little of its infrastructure is
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jonhicks : The Golden Compass Trailer - I'm so excited about this, but I still have to wait 6 months!
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22/05/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Isofarro : Grande consultation sur l'accessibilité et les sites web publics - In 2005 France passed a law that government websites are to be accessible. Now there's a consultancy going on to outline what this means and how it is to be achieved (based on WCAG guidelines). This will come into force in September 2007, and companies fo
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22/05/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
jonhicks : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
deusx : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element - "Creating a consistent interface for your users is a constant struggle for every application designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the visual rendering differences across browsers and operating systems are wildly diffe
philgyford : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element - Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
bmilleare : Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
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22/05/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Flickr: Photos from print & pattern
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22/05/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
jonhicks : Comparative Test of Public Symbols: Test Results at iconglobe - Really fascinating study of reactions to public iconography. Really drives home the edict of "simpler the better'
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22/05/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Philz Coffee - One Cup at a Time - San Francisco - Strong competition for Blue Bottle Coffee.. this is my new favorite place to grab a cup o' joe. Tags: coffee, san francisco
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factoryjoe : Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight | APC Magazine - A lengthy interview on the future of Firefox and its relationship with other RIA platforms. Tags: firefox, mozilla, interview, mitchell baker, silverlight, apollo
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22/05/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2 - A brilliant article on the pros and cons of the upcoming changes to web standards. Tags: xhtml, html, html5, xhtml2, web standards
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Milo Vermeulen : PHOTO!BANG's 13 Months of Dog Year - Chinese news stories re-enacted in photographs [via]
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22/05/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
jimray : Not even Slate can resist the power of the lolcat meme
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22/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Dinner Table Rule
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22/05/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
adamrg : Straight From the Black Swan's Mouth - Freakonomics investigates Black Swans
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22/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : GateWorld - Interviews: After Sunday (Paul McGillion - April 2007) - "This interview contains major spoilers for Atlantis's "Sunday," as well as minor spoilers for "A Dog's Breakfast" and Sanctuary."
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22/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : Clip: World of Warcraft Dancing, With Source - Kotaku - Spliced together video of original dance moves paired with the WoW animations.
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22/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : A RISING NUMBER OF "COWORKING" SPACES BRING FREELANCERS AND OTHER SOLO WORKERS TOGETHER - New York Post Online Edition - A decent article about coworking in mainstream press. Tags: coworking, coworking brooklyn
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22/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : The Regressive Imagery Dictionary
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22/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
jimray : The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights - Slate takes a damning look at the problem that voter fraud isn't. Interesting how Republicans do better when fewer people vote...
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22/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
factoryjoe : MicroK2 Custom Theme at notizBlog - A theme that makes use of the XFN and vote-links icons from Wolfgang Bartelme. Tags: k2, theme, microformats, bartelme, xfn, icons, vote-links
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22/05/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
kaninka.net : Cabinet Magazine Online - The Language of the Bees: An Interview with Hugh Raffles
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22/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Panorama's programme on wifi appears to be scandalously scaremongerish... - If fifty percent of studies can find no evidence for a correlation at all, and radiation is one six-hundredth of reasonable than safety limits, then realistically it's not much of a threat is it.
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22/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : "An investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme suggests the risks posed by wi-fi computer networks may be greater than previously thought, but scientists say the health fears are unproven." - Love the use of 'unproven' here. It's being used to suggest that the bulk of scientists are still keenly investigating, rather than in the rather less worrying 'we have found no consistently observable correlations' sense...
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