4/09/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Core77: Hack 2 School Special - “[The] definitive set of tips, tricks, and lifehacks for design students… Divided into 5 groups — Classroom, Dorm Room, Represent, Crash Course, and Cheat Sheet — everything you need to survive a design education has been h
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4/09/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Print: "I’m not dead yet!" - Greg responds to A Brief Message’s inaugural issue with another perspective on the “future” of print. #.
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4/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : BBC NEWS | Health | Woman sees own heart on display - "A woman has seen her own heart on display at a medical exhibition."
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4/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - "I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."
joshua : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - nice rant on simplicity and task-appropriateness for tools
Rod Begbie : Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word - "Many people agree that revision 5.1a, specifically, was the best version of Word that Microsoft has ever shipped, combining utility and minimalist elegance with reliability. Sadly for me ... I "upgraded" to Word 98, and somehow the magic was gone." [via] #
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4/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Microsoft OOXML fails - Bullet narrowly dodged
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4/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Myanmar's new capital - Insanity of an authoritarian regime
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4/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Red Sox Magic Number - With accompanying RSS feed. [via] #
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4/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Magic number (sports) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - What is this "magic number" of which I speak? #
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4/09/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Jim Morrison’s video debut: a 1964 promotional video for FSU - Did the Lizard King get financial aid? #.
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4/09/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Rumsfeld grilled by audience member on "lies" leading up to Iraq - Heat, kitchen. You know the rest, Rummy. #.
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4/09/2007 @ 16:05 GMT
Linkorama : Atomic Agility 2 - The social atom highlights an important element of Agile Management - that individuals do behave differently in groups. We therefore manage both individuals and groups. Our tactics for individual performance, however, often rely on individual negotiating
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4/09/2007 @ 16:04 GMT
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0: Fad or Future? - KPMG briefing
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4/09/2007 @ 16:04 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Reflections on Onondaga Lake
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4/09/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : content-aware image resizing in less than 350 lines of Python - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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4/09/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
jonhicks : Boagworld Show 92: Royal Air Force - Featuring an interview with John Oxton and myself at our new RAF base office.
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4/09/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Richard Rutter : Phone-holding charging station - Neat, in both senses.
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4/09/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
deusx : /Message: Twitter #Hashtags Backlash Begins - "Haven't even gotten #hashtags off the ground, and people already want them filtered."
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4/09/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Yay! Dopplr crew have got some nice sexy funding from Joichi Ito, Saul Klein and sundry other excellent people - That means Biddulph gets to work on it more over the next couple of years. Happy-making. Little jealous.
philgyford : Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service - Congratulations to Matt, Matt and co! (I did a bunch of the site's HTML/CSS work a while back.)
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plasticbag : Fascinating interview with John Humphrys on the threats to the Today programme and radio's suitability to new media - Deeply interesting to me and I couldn't agree more with much of it, not that my voice counts for much. He's not resistant to the future, he's arguing for something counter-intuitive but clearly true.
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4/09/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Paco de lucia - Almoraima Falseta.-Bulerias - (via cynical-c) [via]
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4/09/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : "BLACK MAGIC VOODO CONGO, I SOLUCTION YOUR PROBLEM IN 24 HOURS." - Attract your love tired out your feets, you say? Yesplz. #.
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4/09/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Opera 9.5 (Kestrel) - Opera 9.5 (Kestrel). The latest Opera alpha includes a bunch of CSS3 features (including an almost full implementation of CSS3 Selectors) as well as the ability to use SVG for scalable background images.
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4/09/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Opera 9.5 alpha - OK, so Kestrel is out, and yes, the mac theme is better than before, and dialog boxes are more mac-like, but as I suspected, its not gone far enough. Disappointing
Richard Rutter : Opera 9.5 public alpha - Kestrel has taken off.
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4/09/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Concurrency/message passing Newsqueak - Awesome talk by Rob Pike on Newsqueak. Hits a lot of topics close to my heart like message passing, etc. Must see if you are watching the rising interest in Erlang.
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4/09/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Jones 5. - Nobody channels Chali 2na like Keegan. B'lee dat. #.
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4/09/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
deusx : Jeff Barr’s Blog » Sentimental Value of Computer Science Books - "I still have too many shelves crammed with books that I will in all likelihood never need again, but I can’t bear to part with them — I am sentimentally attached to many of the computer science textbooks from school and career."
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4/09/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Simon Willison : CouchDb: Some Context - CouchDb: Some Context. CouchDb developer Jan Lehnardt wrote up detailed notes on slides from a presentation he gave back in June, explaining most of what’s interesting about CouchDb (although without the new JavaScript function query language).
joshua : summary of couchdb - been watching couchdb for a while
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4/09/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Django on Jython: What I've done until now - Django on Jython: What I’ve done until now. It’s not quite there yet (the new Jython is Python 2.2 with a few 2.3 features; Django requires 2.3 at least) but it’s looking pretty promising.
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4/09/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Funky Cloud - LifeShaker - LifeShaker revolutionises to-do lists with its unique interface and novel approach to getting stuff done: See nine goals at a glance in LifeShaker's innovative grid view Shake up the grid to bring new goals into the mix Create categorie
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4/09/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Pownce : Note From t - Congrats Pownce folks on the new features! Well done. I particularly want to call out Pownce's implementation of user driven identity consolidation in their new "Other Profiles" feature[1] which is yet another building block for social
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4/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : Marketplace: Another crazy boss - "Well, what that does is that feeds control freaks with a constant, steady stream of stuff that needs to be controlled. That's what's making people more crazy. "
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4/09/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : User Generated Features - Adam Green: "What I’m seeing on Twitter, however, is true social construction of software features. Users are coming up the ideas, and implementing them through adoption." [via] #
deusx : Feedonomics » Blog Archive » User Generated Features - "Users are coming up with the ideas, and implementing them through adoption."
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4/09/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
nelson : Eve mineral economics - I used to make virtual money trading off some of these economic complications
joshua : eve mineral economics - fascinating
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