27/07/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Inbox Zero - Merlin Mann's "Inbox Zero" Google Techtalk. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: google tech talk, merlin mann, gtd, inbox
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27/07/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : ChipIn - A great tool for raising money for nonprofits. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fundraising, nptech, non-profit
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27/07/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : What’s Going on with PodTech - John is looking for CEO 2.0
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27/07/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : The 21st century's best open-source license? - Matt Asay on OSL, of which CPAL borrows its External Deployment clause. But I think it is a strength for CPAL to allow reuse of minor work without attribution, not a weakness.
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27/07/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : iconBits - Laurent's new icon site. Dunno what it is yet but his stuff rocks. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: icons, laurent baumann
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27/07/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : ben barren - rss'ing down under: "Half the time we are out, we forget to take business cards. We don’t keep track of hours." - at end of the day if you take out the exception that proves the rule fly to skiers, many consumer based internet businesses will like most blogs, be personal passion endeavours that don't go the way of gootube etc. after "last time" ther
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27/07/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : WP-Amazon « manalang - A nice plugin for linking to Amazon content. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: amazon, amazon.com, wp-amazon, wordpress, plugins
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27/07/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Webnames.ca Blog - Blogs you should read: Tara Hunt’s HorsePigCow - A nice feature of Tara's blog. Canadians take care of each other. ;) Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: tara hunt, horsepigcow, canada
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27/07/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
veen : Jeff Veen at Satisfaction party holding a Newton on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Trying to use a very early iPhone prototype...
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27/07/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Very slow internet browsing - Vista x64 Forums - "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled" -- The magic incantation that stops network performance SUCKING BALLS (at least on the RhymesWithNose network) in Vista. [via] #
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27/07/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tahoe Tow plane’s demise greatly exaggerated - Tahoe Tow plane’s demise greatly exaggerated: Duh... maybe they'll ask the tow operators if a plane is missing BEFORE conducting a search next time... *sigh*
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27/07/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : XML.com: Introducing OpenSearch - "You go to your favorite Web 2.0 search engine and set up a query like http://web20.example.com/search=john+doe&ouptut=atom and search for "john doe," but rather than getting back results as the usual HTML web page, you get it back in A
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27/07/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : Detect when an element has scrolled into view - "You have an element in the DOM sitting somewhere below the fold (see above the fold), and you’d like to know when it has breached through the bottom threshold of your screen as a user is scrolling down a page."
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27/07/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
philgyford : Password Composer - generate unique passwords for web sites - Sounds very nifty. Haven't tried it yet.
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27/07/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
philgyford : Company v Sole Trader > the tax comparison (£3,000 tax saving ?) - Another comparison, with example figures for different levels of profit.
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27/07/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Faceball - the national sport of Flickr, now with video tutorials and documentation
joshua : Faceball: your face, our balls - the national sport of flickr
Jeremy Zawodny : Faceball: your face, our balls - Faceball: your face, our balls: "My loins are damp with excitement. How do I become part of the rapidly growing Faceball community?" Heh...
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27/07/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : The 5, 10, 20 year plan - The 5, 10, 20 year plan. "At the end of every interview someone inevitably asks 'Where do you see 37signals in five years? Ten years? 20 years?' My answer remains the same: 'Still in business. Beyond that I have no idea.'"
factoryjoe : The 5, 10, 20 year plan - (37signals) - a great write up on future planning. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: business, 37signals, tips, advice
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27/07/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : What does CPAL mean and how did it get approved? - Matt Asay: Hence, more than anything else, I personally believe that the Free Software Foundation's GPLv3 provided cover for CPAL to get approved, which has shifted views on attribution more than anything else. Or maybe everyone just got tired of debating
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27/07/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : iPhone resources - Gppd roundup of the first few weeks' of Internet churn on iPhone
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27/07/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Grub - Grub. Jimmy Wales just announced at OSCON that Wikia have acquired Grub from LookSmart, and will be releasing it as open source.
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27/07/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : +$200K web dev job in Iraq - Remember that job opening in Iraq? Turns out it pays well over $200K per year. Not surprising, I suppose, given the perilous work environment.
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27/07/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Local Man Won't Eat Anything Unless It's On Fire | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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27/07/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Review: Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug - Review: Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug: Paul has a look at yslow.
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27/07/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : OSI evacuation begins over 'badgeware' license - Man unsubscribes from mailing list. Register reporter writes a fluff piece. Man bites dog.
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27/07/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : New Open Source License: CPAL - My lawyer is blogging!
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27/07/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Ready to Embark on the Mobile 2.0 Bandwagon? - If we have already seen how social software is moving slowly into the offline area, like Socialtext, for instance, it was about time that some focus would be put together for the mobile devices market and start putting together some thoughts as to how it
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27/07/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
adamrg : Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next
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27/07/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : ectoplasmosis » Cthulhu Cthursday: Ghostbusters vs. Elder Gods - "“The Collect Call of Cathulhu”, an episode of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon in which everyone’s favorite ectoplasm exterminators battle Lovecraft’s Elder Gods."
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27/07/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : creativepro.com - Getting Design Done - "When there, pull out your @creative lists and get to work. I find this is a great way to tackle smaller creative problems."
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27/07/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jonhicks : CBRD - Media - Photo Gallery - Old Signs
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27/07/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jonhicks : Old Road Signs - mileposts, direction signs & road furniture
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27/07/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
philgyford : Using a Company to Save Tax - Very handy guide to the pros and cons of sole trader vs limited company. Better at explaining things than my accountant and well worth the cash.
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philgyford : Swear-engine from Ben Hammersley - "An entire episode of Deadwood, with everything but the swearing taken out." Even more than I expected. I miss Deadwood.
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27/07/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
philgyford : Wahaca - Mexican market eating - New Mexican place on Chandos Place in Covent Garden. Haven't been. Yet.
plasticbag : Actually semi-decent Mexican food in London? Whatever next! - I can quite seriously recommend Wahaca. It doesn't make me happy like Pancho Villa in San Francisco makes me happy (Prawn Tacos, drool), but it's way better than most other Mexican food I've had in the UK
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27/07/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Linkorama : Chore Wars - Finally, you can claim experience points for housework.
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27/07/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
cobra libre : Learn to dance with JAMES BROWN #
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27/07/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Prototype JavaScript framework: Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications
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27/07/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
nelson : Was Tillman murdered? - Wow, this looks awful; some reason to think his death was more than just a friendly fire accident
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27/07/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
nelson : Paris bicycle culture - How casual bike rentals are altering Paris life
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27/07/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python - Good summary of some of the powerful pieces of Python that are easy to overlook if you're used to other, let's say "more verbose", languages. I've been coding in Python for close to three years, and there was stuff I learned here (dict.setdefault: where [via] #
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27/07/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Tether your iPhone: EDGE Internet on your laptop - neat and simple hack
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27/07/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Gamin the File Alteration Monitor - has python bindings
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27/07/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
jcgregorio : strace(1): trace system calls/signals - Linux man page
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27/07/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : RussellBeattie.com - I Am Jabber Powered! - Good summary of why Jabber is awesome and the future of IM. I have to admit, I didn't "get it" until I installed my own XMPP server and was able to hack up a bot in Python with about 20 lines of code. #
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27/07/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : Twibright Optar - store data with a laser printer and paper
Rod Begbie : Twibright Optar - Codec allowing you to reliably back your data up to dead-tree. You can print about 200kb to a sheet of A4, then scan it in later to retrieve your data. [via] #
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27/07/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Linkorama : Microsoft to Submit Shared Source Licenses to OSI - Hey, if Socialtext can do it, maybe Microsoft can to
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27/07/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : if:book: CommentPress 1.0 - "CommentPress, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text."
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27/07/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Nokia Europe - Nokia N800 - Products - Find products - need to look at this and openmoko
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27/07/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
43folders : Roo Reynolds - What’s Next? » Blog Archive » Inbox Zero - Merlin Mann’s tech talk - Roo Reynolds has written up a useful set of notes based on the Inbox Zero talk. Thanks, Roo!
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27/07/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
nelson : baby baby *luvya girl* - The song's main, and sole, lyrics, "Baby, baby, Luvya girl," are sung in a breathy male voice that alternates between a grunt and a falsetto.
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27/07/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life - Excellently skeptical article on companies' presence in Second Life. "You might wonder what Coke is doing in such a place. "It had a lot to do with hype," admits Michael Donnelly." [via] #
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27/07/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think - Just picked this up, and a quick skim shows it's something a bit special: Learn good coding practices by reading experts choice of "the most beautiful code they've seen", with plenty of commentary. I'm halfway tempted to take a day off next week and jus #
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