8/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of Lego machine that builds Lego ducks - (via MAKE: Blog) [via]
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8/01/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : A list of the Midichlorian counts for major Star Wars characters - A list of the Midichlorian counts for major Star Wars characters.
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43folders : Where can I gamble on Macworld announcements? | Ask MetaFilter - It would be fun if pundits always had to put markers down.
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wearehugh : Sam Ruby: Xhtml5lib - ultra-liberal xhtml parsing
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8/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
wearehugh : Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive Embracing the Inevitable « - second life client released under GPL
cameron : LindenLabs open sources the Second Life client - They hope to improve various parts of the experience and have a more distributable architecture.
jimray : Embracing the Inevitable - Linden open source's Second Life
deusx : Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive Embracing the Inevitable « - Interesting. Important to note that this is the Viewer client being released, and not a hosting solution. Maybe that'll be yet to come, or reverse engineered soon.
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8/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
cameron : Scientists reproduce Milgram's "Obedience to Control" experiments with 3D avatars - The experiment is quite similar, except that the subject can see the other subject, and that they know the person is not real. Despite this fact, they still feel disgusted during the act.
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8/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mutt Muffs - Mutt Muffs: "Safe and Sound Pets! Hearing Protection for Dogs" So you can put your dog in the plane!
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8/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired's 101 Ways to Save Apple cover story from 1997 - ten years later, on the eve of an exciting Macworld, still a great read for its good and bad advice
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8/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : A list of the almost 1000 books that Art Garfunkel has read since 1968 - In case you were wondering, here's a list of the almost 1000 books that Art Garfunkel has read since 1968. (thx, dave)
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8/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Line Rider for the Wii - A California game company purchased the rights to Line Rider and plans to release versions of the game for the Nintendo Wii and DS. (thx, selena)
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8/01/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Super Columbine Massacre RPG! - Costik defends the game/art project
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8/01/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Sealand is up for sale - Maybe Neal Stephenson will buy it and make Cryptonomicon a reality
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8/01/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Reverse-engineering user reviews - Kathy Sierra on reverse-engineering user reviews: "Which would you rather hear a user rave about in a review, your product or your company? How should they describe you?... I'm sure most of you already know that the question was a trick. We don't want our
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8/01/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
43folders : YouTube - Stephin Merritt on Good Day Atlanta - "Good Day, Atlanta." Vapid morning TV is a perfect vehicle for the bubbly sunflower that is Stephin Merritt. [via: what do i know]
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8/01/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Markoff on Botnets - Not a very good article, but a strong warning
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8/01/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Monsterpod - The folks at Photojojo sent me a Monsterpod late last month and while I haven't used it a lot yet, it certainly does work as advertised: it's a little tripod that sticks to pretty much everything. Chris Spurgeon has a short review.
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8/01/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
43folders : Choose instant messaging for increased productivity - My "collaboration" preference? If we can't say what we need to say in 5-7 IM volleys, we abandon the game, and pick up the goddamned phone.
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8/01/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
43folders : Real Empires Ship (Ftrain.com) - "Of course, [the Romans'] version of _Getting Things Done_ would be one word: 'slaves.'"
wearehugh : Real Empires Ship (Ftrain.com)
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Dog Ate What? - The Dog Ate What?: "When I went to the living room to retrieve the pans, much to my shock one whole pan of 12 rolls was empty." Heh.
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8/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Naked parties are all the rage at US upper-crust colleges - Naked parties are all the rage at US upper-crust colleges. "The dynamic is completely different from a clothed party. People are so conscious of how they're coming across that conversations end up being more sophisticated. You can't talk about how hot tha [via]
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8/01/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Give presentations over the web in real time with SamePlace and S5 - Beyond cool. This might kick me into tinkering with S5 again.
deusx : hyperstruct blog Give presentations over the web in real time with SamePlace and S5 - "S5Share is a little script that lets you give S5 presentations over the web with Firefox and SamePlace."
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8/01/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
43folders : Bubbleprice - Online Venture Capital Valuations - "We're going to focus on maximising our userbase before we think about that" [via:mefi]
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8/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Jack Explains Money - Making sense of the Barley Standard.
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8/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : The story of Harold Hayes and Esquire during the 1960s, one of the best decades a magazine ever had - The story of Harold Hayes and Esquire during the 1960s, one of the best decades a magazine ever had.
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jkottke : Metacritic's aggregated view of the film critics' top 10 lists - Metacritic's aggregated view of the film critics' top 10 lists is always worth a look, both for the information and the information design. United 93 appeared on the most lists and tied with Army of Shadows for most #1 rankings.
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8/01/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
wearehugh : WordPress 2.0.6: Feedburner issue, and fix « Mark on WordPress
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8/01/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
wearehugh : meta-douglasp - Backup on MacOS X - "[.Mac] Backup was the only thing that I couldn't do on Google or elsewhere for free."
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8/01/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
wearehugh : robilad: Knoppix to the rescue - "Knoppix is still nice, in 2007."
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8/01/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Getting Lamp
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jimray : Twitter / macworld - Twitter set up a "macworld" account so that folks attending can keep the rest of us up to date. I don't know why I think this is cool.
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8/01/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
joshua : The best twenty Mac apps you've never heard of
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8/01/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
WillPate : commandN #74: I'm co-hosting - Thanks to my homegirl Amber MacArthur for inviting me on to commandN for my first time on a video podcast
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8/01/2007 @ 06:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Dumb Blizzard idea - Threatening to split players apart in the game
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8/01/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Paul Ford : Using the Semantic Web to prove the girl is a witch - "# :GIRL a :WITCH ."
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8/01/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Paul Ford : Centiara, a Semantic Wiki - "[[capital of::Germany]]""[[population:=3,396,990]]"
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8/01/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Paul Ford : Lefty Media: Influenced by Skull & Bones and Trilateral Commission? - Finally—the Amy Goodman/CIA connection is made clear (scroll down for essential chart).
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8/01/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Will Durant writes to H.L. Mencken about Charlie Chaplin at Theodore Dreiser's Funeral - "Dreiser looked handsomer in death than in life; his face expressed a repose and an acceptance which his pugnacious idealism had seldom permitted him before."
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8/01/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
joshua : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
gleuschk : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - nicely done
Richard Rutter : A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - Astonishing. ‘Argument slide’ anyone?.
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8/01/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : a Simpsons-style drawing of Totoro [via]
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8/01/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter - Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,†making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. Uh huh.
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8/01/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Delayed sleep phase syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Busy reading up on Wikipedia about sleep disorders, and I think this may be the one I face. Going to keep a sleep log for a few weeks and try and narrow it down before pestering my GP. #
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8/01/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
43folders : Jungle Disk 1.20e released (All Platforms) - "For Mac and Linux users, this is the first beta of Jungle Disk with automatic backup support."
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8/01/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : DjangoID - Trac - Django-based OpenID server. It almost seems daft *not* to be running that here. [via] #
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