9/09/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : bradchoate.com: 100+ iPhone Features I Want - "As wonderful as Apple’s iPhone is, it has a lot of room for improvement. I’m hopeful that many of the wishes listed below will some day be realized— either by Apple or by the tireless and industrious iPhone hackers out there. What
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9/09/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » A Word on Design Value - A great post on the value of design and IA. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: design, design value
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9/09/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Terraminds micro search - Good Twitter search-engine, which has RSS feeds for search results. [via] #
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9/09/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
factoryjoe : HOVA DESIGN :: Plant Healthy Containers / Acton, Massachusetts - FabricPotsTM by Hova are the world’s first decorative containers made from waterproof and breathable fabric. This innovation allows the soil to aerate naturally, contributing to healthy root systems, while expanding the decorative poss
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9/09/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : Recent Flickr Photos by MeFites | MetaFilter - tempting to subscribe to, but that would feel like drinking fromthe firehose I think
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9/09/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The Musical Intervals Tutor - There’s a link to a very cool ear training application, but some of the discussion of perfect pitch versus relative pitch is pretty interesting. #.
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9/09/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Hellohikimori - Remember when Flash sites’ "loading" screens were actually worth it? Well, this one rocks. Hooray for returns to form. #.
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9/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : CoScripter - CoScripter: looks like a fun toy to play with in Firefox
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9/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Canyon Creek Lakes, Trinity Alps, Northern California - Canyon Creek Lakes, Trinity Alps, Northern California: "It doesn’t get much better than that and the Trinity Alps are one of my favorite places in the whole world." Looks like a great area to check out...
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9/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Drive Your Car to Death, Save $31,000 - Drive Your Car to Death, Save $31,000: Yeah, don't waste your money on new cars every few years...
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9/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years | Environment | The Guardian - Is it me or do they make a linear prediction every year, and every year their linear prediction is exceeded? Guys, have you heard of an exponential curve?
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9/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Isofarro : Usability myths and professionals - Alastair runs into bizarre criticism for the statement: 'no usability guideline is black and white, and the context and users have to be taken into consideration.' Alastair demonstrates a quality that's thin on the ground in web development - a pragmatic
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9/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Isofarro : WebAIM: User Test Cases for HTML 5 - Jared Smith has put together a bundle of videos on the various accessibility features of HTML as experienced by a screen reader power-user. This is offered as a way of encouraging the HTML 5 Working Group to better understand the implications of changing
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9/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Isofarro : Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5 - Steve Faulkner, of the Paciello Group, does some screen reader testing that refutes the HTML 5 Working Group argument that removing the alt attribute from an image will not have an adverse effect on the accessibility of images.
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9/09/2007 @ 14:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : IBM to announce $1 billion commitment to Facebook - ROTFL
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9/09/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Simon Willison : The Tale of the Mechanical Virus - The Tale of the Mechanical Virus. “What I had discovered, in essence, was a mechanical virus. It infects Mac laptops and speads via the DVI adapters.”—I really hope this isn’t why my DVI adapter isn’t on the blink.
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9/09/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : Just so people know, I'll be doing an overview and introduction to Fire Eagle at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London in about a month - I talked a bit about Fire Eagle at Hack Day and at dconstruct yesterday, but we should be pretty close to letting people see things a little more clearly by then.
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9/09/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Apple faces calls to open iPhone - Developers to Mr Jobs: tear down this wall!
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9/09/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
joshua : tagging and folksonomies in dilbert
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9/09/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
jonhicks : Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum - LMT have opened up their archive to browse online, and you can buy reproductions of the posters at A3/A4. Stunning!
Ethan Marcotte : Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum - Some damned beautiful work in here. Via Jon Hicks. #. [via]
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9/09/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
plasticbag : Women with meat for hair as spotted by Jason Kottke - It made me think about what it would be like if your hair was actually made of sheaves of your own personal meat and was used, like dogs use their tongues, to cool you down. Gross.
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9/09/2007 @ 09:03 GMT
joshua : TipBin Launches Tip Sharing Community - interesting advice variant
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9/09/2007 @ 09:03 GMT
joshua : the grocery game - tells you how to game your local groceries. quite clever.
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9/09/2007 @ 09:03 GMT
joshua : Gamasutra - AGDC: Haro On Making Habbo A Success
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9/09/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
plasticbag : Chicken Yoghurt has a wonderful Open Source Press Release that I'd encourage people to read and post to their own sites... - Solid and entertaining.
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9/09/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
plasticbag : The Government, in responding to a petition about the iPlayer being cross-platform, has said that it's a condition of its launch and will be made so as soon as possible - My big hope is that this convinces any laggards at the BBC that going for the Microsoft-only route is not now and will never be an acceptable approach for a public service organisation in the UK.
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9/09/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
wearehugh : Daniel Baumann - Debian Live Web Boot
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9/09/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Reader Added Search and ....Er...This is News? - Google Reader Added Search and ....Er...This is News?: "Huh. I don't get it. I'm stunned it didn't launch with search. I mean, it's Google, right?" That's what I thought too, but decided not to be a grump. Heh.
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9/09/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : Concurrent Terminal Services (RDP) sessions under Windows XP!
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joshua : stonebraker's latest on re-architecting databases - presumably about vertica
jcgregorio : The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) - "This paper builds on [SBC+07] by presenting evidence that the current architecture of RDBMSs is not even appropriate for business data processing."
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9/09/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : artificial coyote in Boston park to scare geese - scary
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9/09/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Peace's LJ Icons - (via community.livejournal) [via]
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9/09/2007 @ 04:04 GMT
factoryjoe : CSS - Conditional comments - Syntax for conditional comments Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: css, internet explorer, msie, hacks
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9/09/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : MoMA Store - Timeless Bracelet
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9/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft flash sig generator - (via bigredkitty.blogspot) [via]
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9/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : wikimarkup - wikimarkup. “MediaWiki markup in Python”. I’ve always suspected that MediaWiki was like Perl; the only thing that can parse MediaWiki is MediaWiki. Not sure how faithful this Python port is but I’d love my theory to be proved wrong. [via]
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9/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : django-sphinx - django-sphinx. More code from Curse Gaming; this time a really nice API for adding Sphinx full-text search to a Django model. [via]
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9/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Building the Social Web with OpenID - Building the Social Web with OpenID. Slides from my keynote at yesterday’s PyCon UK.
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9/09/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : drobo - Cool-looking external disk storage array. Smarter than RAID -- you can mix disk sizes, and add/upgrade drives on the fly -- so it could be just the thang for backups around these parts. [via] #
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9/09/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
factoryjoe : pixelsebi's repository - a blog about the metaverse, semantic and social web - written by sebastian küpers - A real BarCamp in Second Life! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ewb3dcamp, barcamp, second life
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