17/10/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
43folders : iPhone Nextbus - SF MUNI riders: so far this is _way_ the best iPhone NextBus app I've found [thanks, Nelson]
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WillPate : Getsatsifaction - ConceptShare
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WillPate : Can I make money doing online video? - "two to four dollars for every thousand of your viewers"
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deusx : Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents - "The short version: The Arts & Crafts movement failed in consumer goods, but it could succeed in software."
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Simon Willison : Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy - Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy. Fascinating, detailed look at the evolution of the hacker service economy. Of particular interest: a web application that sells access to hacked machines to identity thieves on a timeshare basis. [via]
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plasticbag : Screw Getting Things Done, my brains' completely plotzing over "Consider it Done" - It's like a PA service for tedious or bureaucratic life-management jobs like sorting out your expenses, finding all the documentation for your tax return, paying bills. Good bit is you only employ them for a few hours a week.
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17/10/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
deusx : Michael Gartenberg - Still not twittering - "It looks like I could add Twitter into the flow of RSS feeds but do I really want to do that?"
factoryjoe : Michael Gartenberg - Still not twittering - Michael Gartenberg, the latest hold-out NOT using Twitter, explains his rationale. And okay, it makes sense for him. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter
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17/10/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters | The Onion - "For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008." #
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17/10/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Leopard: The Wow Really Starts Now ~ Chris Pirillo - "If you read the entire page and still don’t want Leopard, there’s something seriously wrong with you. ... Even at twice the price, Leopard appears to be thrice nice as Windows Vista."
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17/10/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Waterhobo - "for the sake of this discussion we are talking about rabbits, however I must make a disclaimer that in motion detection and autofire if an unwitting person is tresspassing on my property and happens to walk into the field of fire... well we will ref
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17/10/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference - "From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond."
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deusx : Yahoo! Plans Return to its Portal Roots - "As we wrote in July, the platform is the killer app of today's web and Yahoo! needs to get on board."
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17/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
WillPate : Machine Guns and Stupidity - Why rappers do stupid things
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17/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : taggedhype's bookmarks on del.icio.us - Holy massive collection of MP3 links: "All taggedhype's items (82921)"
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17/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Andy Baio : USPO rejects Amazon's one-click patent after reviewing blogger's prior art - Peter Calveley's persistent efforts were chronicled on his blog
deusx : igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST - "In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "
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veen : House passes federal journalist shield, includes bloggers - Ars Technica - The law protects "a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism." Does AdSense count?
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17/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
veen : Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again - New York Times - " Internet start-ups are drawing investment based on their ability to build an audience, not bring in revenue — the very alchemy that many say led to the inflation and bursting of the dot-com bubble."
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17/10/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome - the hypnotizing power of game achievements [via]
deusx : I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers) - "It's really weird having yourself pop up in your feed reader. "Ooh, that sounds like my kind of thing. Wait, it is my thing.""
nelson : Half Life gnome achievment - Funny story of a special game challenge
Greg Storey : Send the garden gnome into space. - Just one more reason why Halflife 2 rocks all FPS ever made.
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17/10/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Jonathan Coulton on his work with Portal - spoilers; if you haven't played Portal yet, trust me and buy it
nelson : Coulton on Portal - the closing song is a surprise hit; here's a note from the songwriter
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17/10/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Portal credits song - Sadly the text isn't quite readable
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17/10/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
WillPate : Ten TED Videos to Change How You View the World
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17/10/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Turkey set to invade Iraq. - Come on in, there's plenty of room! And bring some of that jerky with ya.
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17/10/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Tug o' war amputation - Choose your rope carefully?
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17/10/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : CircleLending bought - I have friends who love this personal loan management app
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17/10/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : 100 resources to attract, retain and utilize rock star programmers - 100 resources to attract, retain and utilize rock star programmers.
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17/10/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Snail display team! - Flickr: Snail display team!
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17/10/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Premailer - Speaking of email, Premailer is a preflight tool for analyzing HTML/CSS emails, converting CSS to inline styles, and more. Via Dan Cederholm. [via]
jonhicks : Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail — dunae.ca
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17/10/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Herencia typeface - Herencia, an elegant handwriting typeface by Diego Giaccone.
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17/10/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Findings From the Web Design Survey - Findings From the Web Design Survey. 32,831 people responded to A List Apart’s survey, and the conclusions have been packaged up in an elegant PDF. You can also download the (anonymized) raw data and run your own analysis. [via]
Cameron Moll : Catching up: ALA Web Design Survey 2007 - Way behind on linkage, catching up. ALA Web Design Survey 2007. Nearly 30,000 responses and no shortage of analytical breakdowns in the compilation process.
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17/10/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : SVG and text/html - SVG and text/html. Anne van Kesteren discusses the need for SVG and MathML to be embeddable in HTML 5, not just XHTML.
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17/10/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hack Day @ Yahoo! [video] - Hack Day @ Yahoo! [video]: wherein I interview hackers at yahoo
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17/10/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Findings from the Web Design Survey. - Tons of data.
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Greg Storey : Hopefully "retooling" means "writing again, frequently". - You've been missed Dean.
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17/10/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Channel Your Inner Net Jackass in 'Team Fortress 2' - "And yet, it's an astonishingly fun game. I believe that's because each of the nine classes in the game corresponds to a particular type of internet jackass. As long as you pick the right class, you can leverage your misanthropy for the greater good!
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17/10/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Roy Orbison in Cling-film, the novel - Roy Orbison in Cling-film, the novel. If you missed the original internet meme you might be a bit baffled by this one, but I picked up a copy of the novel today and it completely lives up to the standard set by the short stories.
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17/10/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Keeping An Eye On Things - "EC2 lets us run many parallel leak checking machines against a randomly generated selection of websites." wicked cool
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17/10/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : perl script to change the ready message on an HP printer - could you scroll an RSS feed? (via programming.reddit) [via]
deusx : Miscellany: INSERT COIN - "This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."
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17/10/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Modern Mechanix - Badass vintage magazine covers. Though I think this one might have me crying myself to sleep for a few nights. ∞
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17/10/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Validator S.A.C. - Standalone W3C HTML validator for OS X. ∞
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Matthew M. Boedicker : hacker Firefox extensions
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17/10/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks - the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks [via]
43folders : The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks - tx, mathowie
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17/10/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : vTalk - a pimp for my friend Jeremy's new telecommunications product!
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17/10/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : FF Meta Serif - A serif companion to the sans Meta. Co-drawn with Spiekermann by Christian Schwartz, creator of Guardian Egyptian.
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17/10/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Call and Response - repeating ad jingles in overlapping intervals builds a droning soundscape
nelson : Call and Response - Beautiful collage of classic TV ads
joshua : Call and Response - Defining the fine line between catchy commercial jingles and mental paralysis.
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factoryjoe : Social Bookmarking Faceoff Reloaded - Decent overview of the top social bookmarking sites, including Ma.gnolia. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: social bookmarking, ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, simpy
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17/10/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Social Capital To Show Its Worth at This Week's Web 2.0 Summit - A great write up of the Web 2.0 Summit and a look at the data ownership topics that are heating up. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Social Capital, web 2.0 summit, social networks, social graph
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17/10/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
factoryjoe : imedia - Google Code - The Karelia iMedia Browser, framework and application for browsing media on Mac OS X Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: macosx, open source, imedia, framework
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17/10/2007 @ 10:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Hueniverse: OAuth End-User Experience Demo - "This quick demo is useful for explaining what OAuth looks like to the end user. It is fully explained in the beginner's guide but I find it very useful in this interactive format." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
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17/10/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part II - Eran's Part II of his comprehensive OAuth guide. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, guide, tutorial
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17/10/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : “groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning October 14, 2007 - "Blaine at Twitter has implemented OAuth authentication, the first (I believe) live implementation on the web. I hope to have this rolled into Twadget in the next week or two, so I can stop asking for usernames and passwords." Saved By
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17/10/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : OAuth C# (very) Basic Library - OAuth C# (very) Basic Library Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, c#, library, open source
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17/10/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired News interviews StSanders about his Shred videos - including a quote from Steve Vai
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17/10/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : village /// ApexSerif - This is definitely the Threadless.com font. Sweet. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: slabserif, threadless, serif, font, typeface
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factoryjoe : The Structured Web - A Primer - "Possibly a precursor to the Semantic Web, the structured web would be much more readily remixable. It truly will be the web as a database. Yes, a good old relational database, but instead of tables we would be remixing web sites and web
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17/10/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
factoryjoe : "Embedded" Web Fonts Return. Uh-oh. - Stephen Coles's thoughts on @font-face. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: stephen coles, @font-face, css, suggestion, nicewebtype, web typography, embedding
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17/10/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Transfer Your iTunes Library and Song Ratings from One Computer to Another : kadavy.net - Great advice on exporting your iTunes library and maintaining your track ratings. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: itunes, export, song ratings, ratings, tips
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17/10/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Historical User Agent strings for Safari/WebKit - "Below are tables listing software updates for each relevant major release of Mac OS X and the resulting changes in the build information found in the User Agent string [in Safari]." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
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17/10/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
nelson : Playing it straight - Larry Craig calls it entrapment
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17/10/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : danwebb.net - Low Pro Behaviours 101: Part 2 - "In the first post I briefly explained how to use pre-made Low Pro behaviours but, although I’m in the process of writing a few myself, Low Pro is not going to be a widget library – what it is is a great framework to write your own c
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17/10/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : TimeCert - TimeCert is a new service for timestamping content. TimeCert will give you the timestamp for when someone first referenced a given digest. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: timestamp, service, web service, hex
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17/10/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
nelson : portal rave - I agree with Jason this game is great
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nelson : Portal storytelling - Nice, overly long explication on Portal as good storytelling
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17/10/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
WillPate : ongoing · Flat Rate Considered Harmful - The mobile telcos are leaving billions on the table with their shortsightedness
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17/10/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
WillPate : More People Watching TV Shows Online - "Roughly sixteen percent of American Internet households watch TV broadcasts online"
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17/10/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : Martha Mitchell effect - "The Martha Mitchell effect is the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health clinician mistakes the patient's perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly"
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17/10/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : This License Key Rated R for Strong Coarse Language - The problems with randomly creating strings... "It turns out that one day in the not-too-distant future, our random number generator gets filthy. On that day, one out of every 128 licenses generated will start with the F-bomb." [via] #
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17/10/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Heats Up in Search Ad Race As Google Levels Off - Yahoo Heats Up in Search Ad Race As Google Levels Off: "The researchers found third quarter spending on Yahoo’s percentage of media spend increased 7.8 percent over the prior quarter. SearchIgnite and RBC noted spending on Google for the same p
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17/10/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Optimizing the Google Home Page for Google
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