3/09/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : cooperBricolage - coworking in NYC - cooperBricolage is a coworking café in Manhattan where entrepreneurs, designers, programmers and technologists can interact and collaborate. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: coworking, new york, manhattan
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3/09/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : /Message: Twitter #Hashtags Backlash Begins - The first of the backlash against hashtags? Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Twitter, hashtags, groups
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3/09/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Google Phone rumours - Columnist claims to have talked to people who've seen it
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3/09/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
deusx : Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Optimizing Seam Carving - "After my post about the various content-aware image resizing projects I couldn't resist to take a closer look at Joa Ebert's ImageResizing class and take him on his word "If you can improve something do not be shy and post it". I just love
Ethan Marcotte : Optimizing Seam Carving - Seam carving in Flash. So hot...but dammit, when do we get this natively in browsers? #.
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3/09/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
deusx : Cooking For Engineers - Recipe File: Garlic Roasted Potatoes - "Roasted potatoes make a great addition to any dinner."
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3/09/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers - Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers. Detailed introduction and tutorial from James Gardner.
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3/09/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Imaginary numbers - Imaginary numbers. “We would like to back up our survey with an equation from an expert to work out which celebrity has the sexiest walk, with theory behind it”—Ben Goldacre provides inside information on how PR firms invent science to back up the
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3/09/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : Awesome! Fake Steve Jobs has said what I've been arguing in TV circles for bloody ages. - I mean he's a bit aggressive and stuff, but long-term there is limited future in broadcasting. The future's in content production. The sooner some of them figure that out the better! It's all about the rights, bitches!
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3/09/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : TwonkyMedia xbox360 - Portable server that can stream media to whatever bizarre protocol the Xbox 360 needs
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3/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : There are no social networks - “There is only one social network. My social network.” Nicely put, Cam.
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3/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Blade Runner hospital scene - Something that's never turned up in an edit, no doubt for the comic overacting
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3/09/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : How much is that standard in the window, the one with the lovely tale? - How much is that standard in the window, the one with the lovely tale?. “The real loser in this could be ISO’s reputation itself.” Simon Wardley summarises the embarrassing shenanigans surrounding ISO’s rubber stamping of Microsoft’s OOXML.
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3/09/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : A really nice post by Dan Hill on the views that he's experiencing in Sydney and the lack of skylines in London - One of the things I've always found most unbearable about London is the lack of sky. There's nowhere to get any distance and space around you, to see for a while. I grew up in Norfolk, where you have nothing but sky.
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3/09/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Work hard and be nice to people - Difficult to find fault with that as a sentiment, except that sometimes it's very hard to be nice to everyone and that when you work too hard, your tolerance for people diminishes dramatically.
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plasticbag : Tom Carden responds to my comments about Twitter Blocks - It seemed only fair to link to him so that people could hear his feelings about people's responses to them. Read my comment for more context.
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3/09/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : Eat 2 Love is a food blog that seems to get ripped off a lot by the mainstream press - Her instinct is that people are just reading her site looking for interesting feature ideas and then ripping them off wholesale. There's little she can do about it but draw people's attention to it. So I thought I'd help.
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3/09/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
joshua : Registry Listing - i just saw a .cat domain name. when did all this crap get approved?
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3/09/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS - CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS. CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “views” (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damie
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3/09/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : WoW Moviewatch: Chawana's Rocket Experiment - WOW Insider - "It's five minutes and forty-five seconds of a L70 Orc blowing unsuspecting Alliance toons into next week with his Rocket Launcher. Over and over and over. To operatic power-metal. "
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3/09/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
gleuschk : Reel Mower Guide - also sells them, 21 models, ships in one day
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3/09/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Obviously, it's not Obvious - Obviously, it’s not Obvious. “It was obvious to us that FeedBurner was a very powerful concept around which an ecosystem could flourish. It wasn’t obvious to most other people until they actually saw several examples of people using FeedBurner in
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Simon Willison : Freebase - Freebase. Out of closed beta, although you still need an invite code to contribute. I hope they drop the JavaScript requirement for viewing content on the site.
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3/09/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Freebase developer documentation - Freebase developer documentation. The JSON API and particularly the query language are fascinating.
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3/09/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Sam Ruby: 2to3 - Sam Ruby: 2to3. Sam’s report on an attempt to port the Universal Feed Parser to Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool does most of the work, but it seems the unicode changes can be pretty tricky.
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3/09/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Simon Willison : It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse - It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse. NBC’s request that Apple “stiffen anti-piracy provisions” is down-right scary.
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3/09/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Simon Willison : calendar.timegm() - calendar.timegm(). An “unrelated but handy function” that converts a time.gmtime() in to a corresponding Unix timestamp. I’ve been hand-rolling this one for years; never thought to look in calendar. [via]
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3/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran - Times Online - THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Deta
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