27/08/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : dyeSight, $2 Multi-Touch Pad - building a tabletop multitouch display with a plastic bag, some blue dye, and an iSight
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27/08/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
factoryjoe : clearskys.net : MyDashboard plugin - The MyDashboard plugin is designed to replace the standard, but limited, WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extendable and skinnable. It is based on the igoogle, Pageflakes and Netvibes style of home page and is desig
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27/08/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
factoryjoe : clearskys-mydashboard - Google Code - This project adds a new dashboard page to the Wordpress administration system, and sets it as the default dashboard (the existing dashboard can still be accessed if needed). The myDasboard page is based on a Ajax homepage and can be cust
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27/08/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Socialtwister 2.0 » Blog Archive » Twitter Channels, Hmm… - More thoughts on Twitter groups, with a counterproposal for a groups nomenclature. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, tagchannels, tags, groups
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27/08/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Design Observer: Design Criticism’s Winding Road - Alice Twemlow sheds a little light on the history of critical writing about design.
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27/08/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
factoryjoe : The Twitter Group Debate - More thoughts on Twitter for groups -- mostly a request for private groups. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, channels, groups
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27/08/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Channels Will Improve the Twitter Experience - "Messina and Boyd aren't talking about groups as we know them in other social networks per se, but more along the lines of parsing information to specific assemblies of people around a common topic. This is sort of along he same track as
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27/08/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Photo Matt » Grey Followup - Matt talks about TechCrunch's hatchet job on making money and open source... in regards to WordPress. Tell it brother. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: open source, wordpress
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27/08/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Winners - Wordpress Plugin Competition - "The following are the results for the WordPress Plugin Competition, in reverse order." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wordpress, plugins, contest
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27/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : QDB: Quote #794379 - "this fucking town is full of gremlins!"
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27/08/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Holding a Program in One's Head - Holding a Program in One's Head: "Your code is your understanding of the problem you're exploring. So it's only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem." Yup...
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factoryjoe : Watch funny videos from Super Deluxe on your iPhone - You can watch new Super Deluxe videos stream on your iPhone. The app gives you video quality based on whether you are on Edge or WiFi. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: superdeluxe, video, iphone
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27/08/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : ircm - Google Code - Pogi's iRCm provides a GUI-based Internet Relay Chat client for your iPhone. You can join channels, issue raw IRC commands and take part in conversations. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: irc, iphone, iphoneap
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27/08/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : pxl - Google Code - PXL/Shimmer allows iPhone code to "call home" and update themselves when new versions become available. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: iphone, installer.app, updater, iphoneapp, open source
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27/08/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
43folders : alwaysBETA » The Tale of the Mechanical Virus - Fascinating -- Never heard of this happening before. At least now you can say there's a Mac-only virus spreading at Google.
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27/08/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Space Giraffe video - Amazingly fucked up new XBox Live Arcade game, real work of art
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27/08/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : iPhone accelerometer hack - Short little video of what would be possible if only Apple would open up the iPhone to third party developers
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27/08/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Michael Cook’s Photographs of Toronto’s Sewer Drains - Interview with the writer, photographer, and urban explorer responsible for Vanishing Point (the site seems to be rather slow at the moment). These images are breathtaking.
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27/08/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Linkorama : only in japan crowd prank - funny video via @astack
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27/08/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Linkorama : louis ck- bill gates - funny video via @astack
Ethan Marcotte : Louis C.K., Bill Gates, and setting the world’s pants on fire - The man brings the funny. (YouTube video, and the language gets incredibly NSFW after about a minute. Still, it’s funny. There we are.) #.
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27/08/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Lenovo Support & downloads - Downgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP - Lenovo offering disks to let you "downgrade" your newly-purchased Vista-running laptop to XP. Prediction: These will be very popular. [via] #
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27/08/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
deusx : ThinkGeek :: Laboratory Beaker Mug - "Step up to the big leagues, and drink deeply from your very own 400ml laboratory beaker!"
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deusx : YouTube - My Early Muir Owl - "A wedding proposal, built around an elaborate gallery opening."
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27/08/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : personal health monitor - (via makezine) [via]
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27/08/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : GreeneCine Movie Primers - “[Our primers] are meant to be a fun introductory overview of major film genres and movements, and to serve as handy guides in your rental selection process.” Via Lined and Unlined. [via]
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27/08/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Ping Mag: São Paulo No Logo - Photo documentation of the Brazilian city’s campaign to remove outdoor advertising. Beautiful.
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27/08/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
fastclemmy : Video Japanese Shadow Video - Video Japanese Shadow Video by fastclemmy video basketball japan hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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27/08/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : Another coffee/tea-cup design experiment, this time allowing you get a sense of how milky/strong your tea should be based on colour. - This is nice and everything, but I think it misses a trick. Assuming for a moment you put the tea in first you need to evaluate strength immediately separately from milkiness. I propose a colour guide at the bottom to recommend appropriate strength.
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27/08/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
plasticbag : Lovely "Dance Dance" David Heinemeier Hansson (Revolution) post about the rhetoric that people use about 'the real world' - "The Real World must be a truly depressing place to live. It’s apparently a realm where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose."
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27/08/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : Fascinating Pasta & Vinegar post about user research on Halo - The best thing about this post is how much of the success of the game is predicated on the topography of the landscape. Something interesting there.
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27/08/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : Alice Taylor spots a really bloody nice looking coffee mug - All styled up like a Chemistry beaker for your more accurate mix of coffee and milk, I'm guessing.
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27/08/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : bayimg - free uncensored image hosting - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: hosting, image hosting, free
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27/08/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : apolloim - Google Code - iPhone Instant Messenger Client Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: im, iphone, iphoneapp, Instant Messenger, open source
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27/08/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
joshua : CocoThumbX - Mac OS X Thumbnail Creator - adds thumbnails
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27/08/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : ExtremeSwank | Trusted Authentication - "This extension is intended to fill the need for giving a site permission to access data stored at another site using a user’s OpenID. This is said to be “trusted”, because only the initial trust action is required to configure the
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27/08/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Joseph Smarr » My quiet twitter friends are getting lost - A good look at the "trampling aspect" of regular Twitterers over the less-often-posters... Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: jsmarr, twitter, groups
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27/08/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
nelson : The great Iraq swindle - Awesomely angry bit of investigative journalism
Ethan Marcotte : The Great Iraq Swindle - When does it stop? #.
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27/08/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : The London Evening Standard Headline Generator - Brilliant fun. Ludicrous statements at the best of times, subsequently chopped up and recontextualised.
Rod Begbie : The London Evening Standard Headline Generator - "QUEEN'S CHICKENS STABBED TO DEATH", "TV CROCODILE AND CAMILLA TO WED" and other randomly generated news-stands. [via] #
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27/08/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Weird story from Wired News: Astronomers have found a huge area of the Universe completely devoid of, well, anything... - My mind leaps to terms like Necrid Expanse from Star Trek. This is because I am a dweeb.
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27/08/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
factoryjoe : wpDirAuth Support | Google Groups - an interesting ldap plugin for wordpress. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wordpress, authentication, ldap
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27/08/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
deusx : bradchoate.com: Microblogging and How the Internet Stole my Blog - "You see, I’ve fallen into that blogging trap where you start to feel as if you have to write a very long and involved essay in order to post to your blog."
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27/08/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
plasticbag : Stephen at PRBlogger has put up a big post warning PR people not to spam bloggers... - I have to be honest, Stephen has done his utmost to make this (limited) situation right and I can't thank him enough. If his post gets the attention of people in the PR industry that'll be a really good start.
deusx : prblogger.com » Blog Archive » Brothels update - "Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."
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27/08/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
plasticbag : Just watched the 1936 film 'Things to Come' based on HG Well's book - Wow. That was extraordinary. A celebratory song for science and progress that contains some of the most extraordinary and convincing special effects I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. Extraordinary.
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27/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Insane story about a guy who sold a dime worth $1.9 million and had to fly it across the US - Jason Kottke is quite right. The best line is the bit where he says that he didn't take the dime out because it's suspicious to stare at dimes in public.
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27/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Another Kottke rip-off - the trailer for new Wes Anderson film, 'The Darjeeling Limited' - I love his style and the last two films, but it looked kind of samey from the trailer.
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27/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Meg Hourihan has a very interesting and well-researched post on what she ate when she was pregnant and why... - Really genuinely interesting. I imagine the world is litigious enough that most people are now too afraid to recommend anything with very very limited risks in case they got sued by those poor unfortunate people.
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27/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : An extraordinary blog post about The Punisher who gets his face messed up and needs to go into hiding so a plastic surgeon with a stack of melanin makes him black - Jaw on the floor awesome. They don't make ludicrous madshit like this any more.
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