18/10/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
Greg Storey : Keegan is holding an underground conference at SXSW. - Word has it that Senator Craig has already RSVP'd.
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18/10/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
Greg Storey : Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? - Clockwise, but I can get it to change direction for about two rotations.
Eric Meyer : Right Brain v Left Brain - I default to clockwise, though I can choose and maintain either direction. Possibly because I've trained myself to see ceiling fan blades anti-rotating at will. [via Greg] [via]
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18/10/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
joshua : Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - nice rundown of web charting tools
Richard Rutter : Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - Lots of examples; some better than others.
nelson : Charts and graphs - nice rundown of software options
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18/10/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Simon Willison : MyOpenID adds Information Card Support - MyOpenID adds Information Card Support. First client SSL certificates, now Information Cards. MyOpenID is certainly taking browser-based phishing solutions seriously.
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18/10/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : High Performance Web Sites - High Performance Web Sites: "I also want to give a shout-out to Yahoo! here for sharing their knowledge, earned through hard experience running one of the world's largest web sites."
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18/10/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : ddrescue - ddrescue: "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors."
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18/10/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives - It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives: "Laptop users will also be pleased to see improved support for display systems." Kick Ass.
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18/10/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : hpsetdisp.pl - hpsetdisp.pl: "Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display." Heh. I did this years ago at Yahoo too.
Rod Begbie : hpsetdisp.pl - An old hack, rediscovered: Change the "00 READY" message on HP printers. I used variants of this at uni ("00 RAEDY" and "PAPER UPSIDE DOWN" were favourites of mine), and at AnagramOfPanties (in those glorious bubble days, I ran a script which displayed t #
deusx : hpsetdisp.pl (INSERT COIN) - "Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display. Takes an IP address and message on the command line. My favorite message is "INSERT COIN"."
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18/10/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Podcast: Jared Spool and Cameron Moll - Podcast: An interview with Jared Spool and Cameron Moll. Recorded in Brighton (England) following d.Construct, in preparation for my upcoming UI12 workshop.
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18/10/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
nelson : 75% of bombs can board the plane - Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water
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deusx : Back to the Future - "The real issue is: how improve on conventional space?"
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18/10/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Swearing at work boosts team spirt, morale - One wonders if they've been lurking in the Airbag chat room. No mention of "your mom" jokes, though. ∞
Greg Storey : Swearing at work boosts team spirt. - Ryan, Ethan; please give the home office a call, I have a few words for you both.
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18/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
43folders : Rands In Repose: The Gel Dilemma - via DF
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18/10/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : China subverts DNS - Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu
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18/10/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
nelson : Online poker cheating - The house is crooked
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Rod Begbie : The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Official Website - Comedy Central has launched a complete archive of The Daily Show since Jon Stewart took over in 1999. It's a wee bit wonky (I haven't had much luck searching for old "Even Stephven" segments), but promising. [via] #
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18/10/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Care to scrum? - I need to try this more. If I had an office. And colocated coworkers. And pants. (Don’t judge me.) ∞
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18/10/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Dalek Pumpkin - This makes me love Halloween a little bit more. But just a little bit. ∞
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18/10/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Some quality feedback on the ALA survey. - Keep it comin’! ∞
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18/10/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Phone Fingers - My holiday shopping for Brad and Ryan is now done. ∞
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18/10/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : No Shirts - High-larious. (Via Ryan.) ∞ [via]
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18/10/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Okami confirmed for Wii - This just made my geological era. ∞
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18/10/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : How the identity of Violent Acres was unmasked - good detective work, brought on by her anonymous personal attacks against other bloggers (and their kids)
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18/10/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Trailer park becomes paradise for sex offenders. - Dear CNN, 1974 called and they'd like you to come home.
nelson : Sex offender trailer park - A "little piece of paradise"
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18/10/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Greg Storey : On the effectiveness of game marketing websites. - For the peeps at Red 5.
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Greg Storey : Jumpchart goes live. - And now I have to start paying to use it. Yeah capitalism!
fastclemmy : Jumpchart » Home - Jumpchart » Home by fastclemmy & 6 other(s) Interesting high-speed simple website creator. You can even export as XHTML/CSS. Web newbies should love it! html generator website hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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18/10/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | URI Template Explainer Web Service
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18/10/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway - Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway. “Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use.”
deusx : Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway - "Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use."
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18/10/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Hellboy gets a brand spanking new website. - Thanks Blake!
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18/10/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Khoi Vinh : BBC Cuts Back Programs and Jobs - Oof. That’s painful.
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18/10/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
joshua : think like amano ad - go to the store / buy some eggs / imagine the eggs / as creatures within / another creature / design a video game - ad from wired magazine. had it hanging on my wall for years, but lost it in the great move. not sure why.
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18/10/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : OK/Cancel : Please cancel my Google - This is ace. A random blog entry on OK/Cancel is coming up as the number one hit on Google for "cancel google". Observe the comments thread, and fear for humanity. "pollyanna209 wrote: help get google off my computer you have no right pushing google wi #
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deusx : No Shirts at Improv Everywhere - "For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York."
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18/10/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Unofficial World of Warcraft Papercraft - "There's a bunch of papercrafts that i've made from the game World of Warcraft."
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18/10/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : 1192688844012.gif (GIF Image, 160x128 pixels) - "OH FUCK"
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18/10/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : 1192652466416.gif (GIF Image, 1300x1682 pixels) - Scaled (45%)
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18/10/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : /po/ - Papercraft & Origami - 4chan is brain-hurty and probably work-unsafe. But, neato papercrafts.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : "No matter what you do in L.A., your behavior is appropriate for the city." - True, but you still have to drive everywhere.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Frank Lloyd Lite? - Not a big fan of this collection of work. Maybe the water dome will pull it together.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Roaming around Roland. - Ode to have reason to acquire one of these bad boys.
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Greg Storey : Prayers delivered in 1995-96 have finally been answered. - Sadly, all financial gains will not include adjustments for inflation.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : A guide to all eighteen books written by current presidential candidates. - Zero pop-up books in the mix means one thing: we're screwed.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Presentation Zen. - Perhaps this should be required reading for anyone presenting at SXSW or elsewhere.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : NYC Taxi logo redesign brought to you by the makers of London 2012. - I didn't know that typography came in ugly.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : "We need to learn to write." - I can not stress that enough. It's vital to success.
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18/10/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Greg Storey : The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation. - Read: Our society does jack to provide youth proper inspiration.
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18/10/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Infowar: strike early, strike often - Infowar: strike early, strike often. “The study found that the American participants’ belief in the truth of an initial news report was not affected by knowledge of its subsequent retraction. In contrast, knowing about a retraction was likely to sig
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18/10/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Http-https transitions and relative URLs - Http-https transitions and relative URLs. Finally, a reason to use those weird protocol-relative URLs (//example.com/path and the like).
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18/10/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : Today in Joystiq: October 17, 2007 - Joystiq - "It won't have the weight but it will have the flammability (although we do not recommend Fratricide). You can make your own Weighted Companion Cube papercraft"
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18/10/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : My iPhone SDK - "...it is only logical to assume that I am siding with Chris on the mournful thoughts for the Web-based application development on the delectable slice of glass-sided aluminum. Because in my opinion, Safari 3 is only five tiny steps away
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18/10/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Steve Jobs says iPhone will be opened to outside developers. - Let the application race begin.
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18/10/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
deusx : SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM - "The stars of The Golden Compass interacted and performed on set with stuffed green footballs and other devices that would later be replaced with computer-generated animals and creatures, visual-effects specialists at Rhythm & Hues told journalis
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18/10/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
deusx : Half-Life 2: Portal : Primotech - "How about the ability to play through Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-powered games with the portal gun in-hand? We’ve been doing that very thing for the past few days now, and after hours spent experimenting with various techniques and
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18/10/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger - "This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry."
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18/10/2007 @ 07:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Developers on iPhone SDK: OMG! ABFT! - "If you actually think through the concept of applications and Apple's business model, eventually the web apps are the way all apps will go in the future," Barajin says. "One of the intentions Apple had with the web-based approach was to
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18/10/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
deusx : Street Fighter IV Announced news from 1UP.com - "The short teaser is nothing more than some Ryu and Ken stylized artwork of them fighting, with no word on what platforms the game is coming to or a projected release date. Clearly, Capcom is strictly teasing at this point."
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18/10/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
deusx : XSL Cache - Trac - "The XSL Cache extension is a modification of PHP's standard XSL extension that caches the parsed XSL stylesheet representation between sessions for 2.5x boost in performance for sites that repeatedly apply the same transform."
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18/10/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog - "Scaling happens to be something my company, Automattic, is very good at, and as we started chatting with Tom Werner of Gravatar it became obvious there’s a lot of potential for combined forces"
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18/10/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : This Old Network » Blog Archive » Clean and store your raw tags like Flickr - Terrence describes Flickr's tagging normalization algorithm. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: flickr, tags, tagging, algorithm, normalization
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18/10/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities, Revised 3/20/07 - Just looking at the graphs you can see that the business cycle is relatively immune to changes in tax policy. If you were to draw a conclusion you would actually have to say that they were *better* for the economy.
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18/10/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Lamby’s Blog » Blog Archive » Missing notes in the Mozart’s «Dissonance» quartet K. 465?
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18/10/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Portal - Cute Turrets' Speech - "Here are most of the things that the deadly yet cute turrets say in Portal."
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18/10/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
veen : Oliver Sacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nice tshirt!
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18/10/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Swearing at work 'good for business' - Swearing at work 'good for business': no shit... :-) heh
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18/10/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cranky Geeks: Episode 86 - Cranky Geeks: Episode 86: in which I get to be a guest and talk about robot sex in japan (among other things)
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18/10/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Typographica.org: Stephen Coles on New Font Features Announced for Mac OS X Leopard
Greg Storey : Stephen lays the smack down on Apple's Leopard features as they relate to typography. - Apple is starting to smell like Microsoft.
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18/10/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Unbeige: Gary Hustwit’s Next Movie - Pure speculation, but it would be fun if it were true.
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18/10/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Ideas on Ideas: How to Disarm Ten Difficult Client Comments
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18/10/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Gozi Trojan - Gozi Trojan. The full security paper on the Gozi trojan: how it was discovered, how it was traced and details of the “customer interface for on-line purchases of stolen data” at the other end (which, incidentally, was ridden with security holes).
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