31/08/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : iToner - New took from Ambrosia Software allows you to “quickly transfer custom ringtones for your iPhone — without modifying, hacking or having to reset your iPhone.”
jonhicks : Ambrosia Software, Inc. -- utilities/itoner
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31/08/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Python 3.0a1 released - Python 3.0a1 released. Wow, that was a pretty fast turnaround. Betas are planned for 2008, with a final release scheduled for August.
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31/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : DIRECTV on Demand - DBSTalk's First Look - DBSTalk.Com - DirecTV is beta-testing a new video-on-demand service on their High-Def PVRs. Since there's only one-way communication via the satellite dish, they require you to plug an ethernet cable in the back of the PVR. Interesting approach. #
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31/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Filtering & Escaping Cheat Sheet - Pixelated Dreams - Nice cheat sheet, but looking at the semi-random names of all these functions it's no wonder that this stuff isn't just natural.
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31/08/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Chris Shiflett: My Top Two PHP Security Practices - "I have decided to promote my Top Two PHP Security Practices, expressed in four words: Filter input Escape output"
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31/08/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : Twenty-Four Hours of Local Cohomology - by a bunch of hooligans
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31/08/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Killer poke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing hardware damage (i.e., actual physical, irreversible damage) on a machine and/or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via e.g. BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped contro
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31/08/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : My Published Works: BYTE, October 1980 - "Do not be intimidated by the prospect of over 16,000 user-defined instructions. Instead, welcome the ability to microprogram any or all of your favorite machine architectures into the virtual machine now available."
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31/08/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : PET index - Killer Poke - "The so-called Fast Print or Killer Poke has much been talked about. It is a Commodore BASIC Poke command that is supposed to be able to destroy a PET computer."
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31/08/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Rumour is that Heroes is no longer going to be sold through iTunes in the US - If this is because of rising tensions between iTunes and the industry over pricing, then the only thing that the industry has to do is find and support a plausible alternative, not demand more control over the iTunes model.
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31/08/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Gideon Lichfield—foreign correspondent for the Economist in Jerusalem—and someone I've known a very very long time has started a blog about the situation called 'Fugitive Peace' - It's fascinating to be able to see what's going on at ground level in Palestine and Israel and it makes it all the more real to me that I've known the commentator for almost half my life.
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31/08/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : “zunePhone” Parody Commercial
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31/08/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : GirlHacker's Random Log: What time is it? - the phone company won't tell you anymore
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31/08/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : They promised us jetpacks, too - They promised us jetpacks, too. Ben Hammersley points out that the recent flying car story has done the rounds many times before. I’m sure I remember it from my childhood.
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31/08/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Amsterdam Bicycles - 82 pictures of bicycles taken during 73 minutes on 9/12/06 in Amsterdam, Netherlands [via]
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31/08/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : New Prosthetic Fist Restores Area Man's Ability To Punch | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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31/08/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Proposal for "expanded" attribute for outline elements - "After discussing the idea of an expanded attribute for outline elements, I got a key new piece of information -- in some applications there is no distinction between a file format and an application's internal data structures."
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31/08/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
deusx : Testicles and tentacles: Seamen show their derring-do by doing denizens of the deep - MSN-Mainichi Daily News - "Almost everybody in the fishing business has had sex with a manta at some point"
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31/08/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Do-It-Yourself Counter Notification Letter - "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, enacted in 1998, set out a notification procedure that can be used to request an ISP to remove allegedly infringing material from a web page. However, there is a defense against this attack"
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31/08/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : don't worry, their civilization will end in 2012
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gleuschk : A Reader's Manifesto - An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose
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31/08/2007 @ 01:03 GMT
nelson : Larry Craig arrest audio - Such horrible public humiliation
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31/08/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
deusx : Don Park's Daily Habit - Extending OPML 2.0 through a Wiki - "An OPML namespace wiki page lists attributes in the namespace. An OPML attribute wiki page documents the attribute and its value. An OPML profile wiki page is intended to capture common practice by listing attributes used in practice. A namespace qu
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31/08/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
deusx : Enhancing YUI grids with equal height columns - Wait till I come! - "One of the biggest issues of CSS layouts is that not all columns are the same height which makes it hard to style them in a traditional manner."
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31/08/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
deusx : franklinmint.fm: window.navigator.registerContentHandler - "Firefox 2 ships with a new API that allows sites to register themselves as a feed reader." Somehow I missed this feature
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31/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
plasticbag : I think I'm obsessed with Mark Titchner. His work seems to describe the honourable goal of my industry while savagely satirising it. I like that. It's good to have some dark perspective. - Slogans like, "We want answers to the questions of tomorrow", "The Future demands your participation" and "We want to make dreams a reality" all resonate with me very strongly even as I know how political or messianic they so
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31/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
plasticbag : 'Things' is a beautiful looking GTD application that's supposed to be launching relatively soon in competition with OmniFocus - Could I make one suggestion. The name of your product can only result in no one being able to find it online. I stumbled upon it once and then had to wait until I stumbled upon it again by accident to post a link to it. Not good, I'm thinking.
43folders : Things - task management on the Mac - Haven't spent much time with it yes, but this looks like a beautiful and promising-looking app for doing GTD on your Mac.
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31/08/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : A relatively old interview with Tim O'Reilly from Wired News declares Web 2.0 is about ownership of data.. - The only slight proviso I'd make is that it's about access to or ownership of data. One of the main interesting territories in social media is how to work with your audience to create a repository of value to everyone. Good piece though.
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31/08/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
43folders : A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket
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31/08/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : afongen » JavaScript DSL. It feels gooood. - "Today’s work feels good. Not only should it be really, really clear how to use the above code, all the code behind it is much more cleanly designed, and uses YUI to good advantage. It’s been a good day."
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31/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : XFML - XFML. Throwing the new home for the XFML specification some Google juice; the domain name got nabbed by a squatter. [via]
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31/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : I'm a bit frustrated by the trailers for BBC Four's Comics Britannia season - It's all Bash Street Kids and I'm not sure I even see the connection between that stuff and things like 2000AD or the British comics creators working in the American idiom.
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31/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Search Engine Land's article "The Impending Social Search Inflection Point" borderline convinces me that there is no such thing as 'Social Search' in any meaningful way - I swear that social search is basically a way to explain to people why search engines buy social stuff, by explaining it in terms that their shareholders understand, without it actually referring to anything real in the world...
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31/08/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Bruce Nussbaum says, "CEOs Must Be Designers, Not Just Hire Them" and I think he's right. The problem-solving, find a user need and fill it as close to perfectly as you can is where the future is, particularly in technology... - "In today’s global marketplace, [the key skills are being] able to understand the consumer, prototype possible new products, services and experiences, quickly filter the good, the bad and the ugly and deliver them to people who want them..."
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