24/05/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Gloves
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24/05/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Andy Baio : reCaptcha - using the effort answering captchas to help digitize scanned books
Rod Begbie : What is reCAPTCHA? - This I like a lot -- CAPTCHAs partially made up of text that couldn't be OCR'd successfully (so bots are unlikely to crack it), the solving of which in turn helps the Internet Archive digitize books. [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : captchas that have the useful side effect of digitizing books - (via lifehacker) [via]
kaninka.net : reCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time
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24/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » Presentation: How HTML5 can be used today
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24/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : How to know if it’s a leap year | Javascript Kata
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24/05/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 4-leaf clover collection and how to find them - (via boingboing) [via]
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24/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : How does Bill Gates feel about about the John Hodgman character in those Mac ads? - read the last few awkward lines of this otherwise uneventful interview [via]
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24/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web - one of my favorite new interests is the natural overlap between gaming and the social web
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24/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : powerpoint presentation humor - information aesthetics - Mildly amusing powerpoint-powered standup. #
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24/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Investing in Company Started by Co-Founder’s Wife - New York Times - Google Investing in Company Started by Co-Founder’s Wife - New York Times: good to see they got funding and not at all surprising that some of it came from Google
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24/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
jimray : The One and Only Truly Belgian Fries Recipe at Epicurious.com
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24/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Blingee.com | The Clydester - An example of the AWESOMENESS you can weave with Blingee.com #
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24/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Design Observer: Why a Book? - Michael Bierut on his first book, “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”: “I’ve found that writing is a way to slow things down again, to question my own premises, to force myself to pay attention to things I might otherwise fil
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24/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : A Triangle Morning: Games: Which Way Adventure
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24/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour - Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour. Curse Gaming are getting impressive performance out of Django. [via]
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24/05/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Comparative Test of Public Symbols - “This is an online survey to research the existing public symbols and pictogram standards.” See the results here.
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24/05/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
nelson : Simpsons spoof WoW - Nicely detailed, although as with all simpsons the joke wears thin after about 90 seconds
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24/05/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
jimray : T-post - A subscription-based t-shirt company with designs based on current events. If this didn't exist, Rex would have to invent it.
Rod Begbie : T-post - T-shirt-by-mail club which sends a new shirt every six weeks, based on news events. [via] #
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24/05/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
jimray : ABC 4 Investigation: Emos exposed - God, I hope not, NOBODY wants to see a naked goth kid...
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24/05/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
jimray : Building community focused web apps with Rails
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24/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Bling Ballz (Mature) - "A music video, lovingly animated by hand on 3x5 cards by G8 / Sir Kozworth / Pope / TCB for the hilarious hip hop song "Bling Ballz" by The Bassturd featuring MC Keef and Hermes."
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Simon Willison : Web Security for Estonia - OpenID - Web Security for Estonia—OpenID. “Every Estonian eID holder (around 80% of Estonian population) has an unique OpenID with the format open.id.ee/[firstname].[lastname](.number)”
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24/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : OpenID for all Estonians - OpenID for all Estonians. 1.37 million Estonians will soon have OpenIDs, secured using smart cards. I’d like to hear more about how the smart cards help tackle phishing.
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24/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Battle at Kruger - herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives
nelson : Buffalo vs. Lions - witih crocodiles in the mix
Greg Storey : Battle at Kruger. - Apparently this video is a year old but I just saw it for the first time.
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24/05/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
nelson : Betty and Rita - Cliche tourist photos are better with dogs in them
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24/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : OAKLAND / 15 goats in herd grazing on brush shot, killed - some jerkwads killed the goats. I love the goats!
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24/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group is looking for more board members... - Ideally people with a little spare time who are passionate and clueful about issues like copyright term extension, data retention policies, DRM and the like...
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24/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Stonewall reports on a new survey on the UK's attitudes to homosexuality... - Their concern - whether the shrill voices that argue against homosexuality are representative of the wider population. Their conclusions, pretty much totally no. Awesome. Sometimes the British really cheer me up.
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24/05/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Meg Pickard has spotted a rather aggravating security hole in Twitter's service... - Messages that are supposed to be private are being exposed through the API Various people are irritated by this, particularly as apparently some of the messages are being indexed. I'm sure it'll be sorted out soon. But still, irritating.
Simon Willison : There's a hole in your Twitter - There’s a hole in your Twitter. If you’ve been using friends-only messages on Twitter they may currently be exposed via the API.
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24/05/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : urban vehicle camouflage - (via boingboing) [via]
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24/05/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Isofarro : Screenreaders and javascript - Looks like in the race between JAWS and Window Eyes, Dolphin's HAL, which is 3x popular in the UK than Window Eyes, is further behind both of them in virtual buffer updating.
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factoryjoe : Mark Finkle’s Weblog » XUL Explorer - New and Notable - Description of the state of XUL Explorer and some good comments from Leslie. Tags: xul, xul explorer, xul runner, mozilla, venkman
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24/05/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : L.A. Times: Not Everybody’s a Critic - Time Magazine film critic Richard Schickel argues in this editorial that “ Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring
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24/05/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
adamrg : Don't Read if You Haven't Seen Tonight's Lost! - Lost discussion and spoilers, spoilers, spoilers.
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24/05/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia - sexy infovis with hotspots for hotly revised articles
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24/05/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : 88 Miles - Simple time tracking - You are? Well stop it! Because now there is a better way. 88 Miles is all about making time tracking simple and quick. If you have ever spent the better part of your Friday afternoon trying to work out what you have been doing all week,
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24/05/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : How the EFF Dropped the Ball on the Electric Slide Lawsuit - by settling and allowing a CC license for the dance, they wrongly concede a simple dance move can be copyrighted
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : mitchell's blog: XUL and XULRunner investment - A lengthy discussion of Mozilla's plans for the future of the XUL platform. Tags: xul, xulrunner, mozpad
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : BSBlog » Blog Archive » XULRunner: What we are doing - "This is the long story behind Mitchell’s post about XULRunner investment and Firefox 3. Mozilla is not “killing XULRunner”. It is merely stating the (obvious, I thought) fact that the previously published roadmaps are incorrect, a
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Blingee.com | Make your own Glitter Graphics and Profile Comments - A site for adding Bling to your photos. Tags: graphics, avatars, photos
Rod Begbie : Blingee.com | Make your own Glitter Graphics and Profile Comments - While the results are staggeringly horrifying, I have to confess some mild admiration for this photo blingifier. [via] #
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Amandine: Solace in Sore Hands - "Solace in Sore Hands" (iTunes) is the latest album from Swedish Amandine, and so far I'm really enjoying it. The wispy vocals, glockenspiel and banjo combination are reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens, and all told it makes for good listening.
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 31Three redesign - Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain splashes 31Three with new paint, and it's gorgeous. I have nothing else to say, Jesse. Speechless.
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24/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Tim McElwee, another Auth Jobs success story - "I just wanted to write a short note thanking you for creating authenticjobs.com. Tomorrow I start a new position that I found on your site. It's very nice to have a resource for jobs where standards fluent designers and developers know that employers are
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24/05/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : 3Circle Studio - 3Circle Studio. Catch me on the other end, I'll be adoring Justin Carroll's work for the next little while.
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24/05/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Fanimation Enigma ceiling fan - Fanimation Enigma ceiling fan. Unique single-blade design, single halogen light in the center. This is incredibly beautiful.
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24/05/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS - Roger Berea: Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS. The code isn't perfect, but until CSS3 arrives...
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24/05/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : Musing about collective intelligence and Agile - "And maybe that’s where collective intelligence should meet Agile. Where we use the power of well-established knowledge bases and tie it up to the experience of a large collective in order to focus on a problem, then use an accelerated evolutionary
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24/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : SB/BadBunny-A - Worm - Sophos threat analysis - hooray, openoffice has viruses. it is now officially a complete replacement for microsoft office.
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24/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : BSBlog » Blog Archive » Shining Light on XUL Dark Matter - Questions for XUL developers. Tags: xul, mozpad
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24/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Mozpad initial meeting at stream of bytes - Gandalf's review of the opening Mozpad meeting. Tags: mozpad
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24/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Linkorama : $100 Million Payday For Feedburner - Congrats, guys
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Linkorama : Google must share code - Says GPL author, but only community pressure will make it so. But Chris Dibona says they increased contributions over the last two months since getting a contributor agreement worked out with FSF
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24/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : 4th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
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24/05/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Linkorama : Pew Internet: Spam 2007 - 37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago. And 29% of work email users said spam had increased in their work email accounts, up from 21% two years ago. Yet fewer peo
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24/05/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Rob Curley's got some interesting thoughts on outsourcing “local” reporting - First I'd heard of this story of a Pasadena paper farming out local reporting to India
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24/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Webjay closing in June - possibly because of the changes in net radio royalties?
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24/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Typos: Everyone has their hand in the till - Naffziger’s Net - "if you're going to get all huffy about any one of these entities and go write an article, please cover the issue fully"
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24/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google & Dell's Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire - Google & Dell's Revenue-Generating URL Error Pages Drawing Fire: as well it should...
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24/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Can’t Google? - Google Can’t Google?: "Maybe I can do all of this while balancing on a Segway and sipping an Odwalla, just to make it challenging." Been there, done that.
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24/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Motivator: Create your own custom poster -- Inspire! Motivate! Mock! - A motivational poster generator. So much fun! Tags: motivational poster, motivation, poster, generator
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24/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jimray : Bittman tackles the burger - Grind your own meat (a new one to me!), make sure you have a relatively high fat content (fat = flavor), make your own loosely packed patties, season well, minimize flipping on the grill. Perfection.
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24/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
kaninka.net : Google/Feedburner Deal Confirmed | WebProNews
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24/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : tecosystems » Too Rich For My Taste: The RIA Q&A - "if you're trying to replace and/or subvert the web, you're against me."
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