16/11/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
nelson : facebook vs myspace - Navigational queries are the new Alexa graphs
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16/11/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears - Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears. Apparently published by Wrox in October 2007, beating the “official” Django book by just over a month. Has anyone seen this on bookshelves yet?
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16/11/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
deusx : Woot: The Community: Invacare Zoom Red Scooter - "Does it work with a Mac?"
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16/11/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
deusx : Vintage Whiskey May Be Poured Out - News Story - WSMV Nashville - "Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license."
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16/11/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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16/11/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Simon Willison : JavaScript Beautifier - JavaScript Beautifier. Useful online tool (source code also available) for un-obfuscating JavaScript that has had its whitespace stripped out. [via]
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16/11/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : GameSetWatch on the extremely meta Game Center CX - a Nintendo DS game about playing retro games, based on a Japanese TV show about playing retro games [via]
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16/11/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Catching Up with an Aqua Teen Terrorist - R.U. Sirius interviews Peter Berdovsky about hairstyles from the 1970s
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16/11/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Telegraph - OK, ignore the hokey 'surfer-dude' angle, he has a Ph.D. in physics. You have no idea how much I want this theory to be true, if not to kick the legs out from underneath string theory, to at least bring elegant simplicity back to physics.
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16/11/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : BBC NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Cat's daily routine baffles owner - "A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place."
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16/11/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : md5.rednoize.com - reverse engineer md5 hashes - powered by rednoize.com - "Search in 48,083,359 md5/sha1 hashes. 6,104,212 searches answered since feb 2005. "
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16/11/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : TechnoTarget » AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries - "Here’s a collection of Ajax, Javascript and DHTML Libraries."
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16/11/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews: Essay: Michigan's Marketplace - 11/15/07 - "I think Michigan has done a fairly poor job of telling its story and selling itself to the nation and the world. Nor has the squabbling of the state’s dysfunctional politicians helped."
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deusx : Is Twitter Down? - "No"
plasticbag : Is Twitter Down? - A simple web page for answering that most important of questions.
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16/11/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ian Rogers' 1994 zine about Sly and the Family Stone - a loving tribute from a man who really loves his music
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16/11/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : plusplusbot, karma for anyone - bringing the IRC karma bot to Twitter [via]
Rod Begbie : plusplusbot - Tracking irc-style karma across Twitter. plusplusbot++ [via] #
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16/11/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Console game resolutions - Upsampling in the industry
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16/11/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : SF Gate: Better with Age - Excellent infographic which certainly suggests that Barry Bonds's alleged steroid use may have improved his batting skills. [via] #
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16/11/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Two Beautiful Ornamental Letters - From 19th century lithographer Karl Klimsch.
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16/11/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : gluttonous texting - Good post from Danah about how texting rates influence usage. Put some data behind it and you'd have a PhD chapter!
adamrg : gluttonous texting
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16/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : A man in England has been caught having sex with his bicycle. - Schwinn looking into the possibility of a new revenue stream.
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16/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : Google Trends Reveals People's Predictability
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16/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : Education is a two way street - So then you have teachers who know how to use Power Point or wikis or blogs, and they utilize them in the classroom. But can we then teach them how to reconsider these tools as two-way communication tools rather than one way?
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16/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo! Search Contextual Precaching - Yahoo! Search Contextual Precaching. Neat performance trick on Yahoo! Search: the moment you start typing (indicating you intend to search) the site quietly fires off a bunch of requests to precache assets needed for the search results page.
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Cameron Moll : Wii Finder Widget - Wii finder widget. Yeah, so I'm in the market for a Wii this Christmas. Apparently so is the rest of the world. (If you know where I can get one without paying double the retail price, I'd love to hear from you.)
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Simon Willison : Taking the canvas to another dimension - Taking the canvas to another dimension. Opera have finally released a test version with support for a opera-3d canvas context—Windows only for the moment, but Mac and Linux versions are promised “soon”.
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16/11/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Light Graffiti - The laser-armed robots come for us tonight. ∞
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16/11/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Design By Humans T-shirts - Shop - Detail - Circular Reasoning
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16/11/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Welcome to Color Matters - looks useful!
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16/11/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : WWF-UK: Get on Board Climate Change Campaign - Home - "We’re going to construct a giant paper boat and giant paper plane and deliver them to parliament. They will be covered in the names of the people who have pledged their support for our call for a strong, effective Climate Change Bill."
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16/11/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Pantone autumn - Leaves collected from a single maple tree: green-orange-red.
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16/11/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Why RFPs are bad for designers AND design buyers
Richard Rutter : RFP, R.I.P. - “The worst kind of business is that which beckons in the form of an RFP.” .
Ethan Marcotte : RFP, R.I.P. - FTW. ∞
Cameron Moll : RFP, R.I.P. - RFP, R.I.P. "The worst kind of business, in my humble opinion, is that which beckons in the form of an RFP.... Talk to most experienced design managers and they’ll feel similarly: RFPs simply don’t work when it comes to purchasing design services."
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16/11/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : CSS3 and the death of Handheld Stylesheets - CSS3 and the death of Handheld Stylesheets. I hadn’t looked at CSS 3 media queries before (which let you apply different styles based on media features such as screen width, height and colour availability)—they seem like a much smarter solution that
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16/11/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins - Handy list.
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16/11/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Workforce 30 In. Base Cabinet - Workforce 30 In. Base Cabinet: I need one of these... Damned OSH doesn't stock 'em either.
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16/11/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters - Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters: they needed a study to figure that out?
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16/11/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Analyst: DS redesign already done - News at GameSpot - "It is thinner (it has no GBA port), has on-board storage, and larger screens."
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16/11/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : subversive cross stitch: mind your fingers
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16/11/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Spanish Civil War Print Culture. - An exhibition of magazines and war.
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16/11/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Military air space will be opened to make room for increased air traffic. - Delta to use Area 51 as a temporary hub.
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16/11/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
nelson : Bad bear hunt - Crazy photos of a bear hunter almost dying to his prey
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16/11/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Starbucks to launch first ever nation-wide television campaign. - Lets hope it does better than Joe.
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16/11/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Lanham Napier is George Bush's missing twin. - Watch the video and tell me he's sporting the wrong last name.
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16/11/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : OnStage - Project Management, Team Collaboration, File Sharing, and Task Software - Another Basecamp clone. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: basecamp, Project Management, Team Collaboration, File Sharing, Task Software
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16/11/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Wrike! - "Wrike is a leader in on-demand Online Project Management. Wrike helps to save time for marketing agencies, software development teams, event organizers, publishers, financial services firms, process engineering companies and many others
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16/11/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Candidates should hammer away at war's costs. - Remember when it was all going to cost just $80B?
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16/11/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Inside the manga industrial complex. - Saved for later.
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16/11/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : CradlePoint Technology CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router - awesome
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16/11/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : Pure Visibility - Own Page One » ArbCamp - A social media community event in Ann Arbor, Michigan - "Most importantly, it got a diverse group of folks meeting each other, making connections, and reinforcing that we do have vibrant community of creative folks here in the midwest"
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16/11/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Peter Rojas' RCRD LBL goes live - exclusive DRM-free music from their own new label and partnering with like-minded labels on a daily MP3 blog
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