21/11/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
nelson : Tamable ghost wolf - Warcraft hunters: the most difficult pet to obtain
deusx : Mania’s Arcania: It’s all about the (WoW hunter) pets! » Patch 2.3: Ghost Wolf? - "Resourceful hunters wracked their brains thinking of ways to shorten the length of time it takes to cast Tame Beast"
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21/11/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A Taxonomy of Event- and REST-based Comet - A Taxonomy of Event- and REST-based Comet. Kris Zyp describes a conceptual model for Comet messages based on REST semantics (so you can send a PUT referencing a specific URI down to a client to represent an idempotent state change).
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21/11/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : oobject » best keyboards - "Here is our list of our favorite keyboards, vote for your faves."
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21/11/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : Boy play - Story about the crazy homoeroticism in traditional Afghanistan
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21/11/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Anil on Portal - I should write more game criticism
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21/11/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Space Giraffe despair - brilliant game designer is pissed off that his games don't sell as well as crappy games
deusx : stinkygoat: jesus fucking christ - "not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games ... when a remake of Frogger ... can outsell Space Giraffe that we put so much love and effort into, by more than ten to one, in one week."
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21/11/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Linkorama : Online Social Network Spam: Growing Trend? - Unfortunately, it seems like you can’t have something good on the Internet without someone coming along to abuse it, and that’s as true of online social networks as anything.
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21/11/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Linzie Hunter's spam one-liners are just extraordinarily good. She takes spam subject lines and turns them into typographic art. - They're really lovely. She made some Moo cards with them and they looked awesome and I'm wondering if the Moo crew should try and bring her on as one of their regular designers.
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21/11/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : CSRF Demystified | GNUCITIZEN
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21/11/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : Google Code FAQ - GearsMonkey: Google Gears + Greasemonkey to take Wikipedia offline
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Linkorama : Software Merger Synergy Elusive - As the big software companies flesh out their integration plans internally, customers on the outside are left with unanswered questions about their future. It often takes years for software makers to integrate all the products they have bought -- if they
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21/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : PARC Forum | November 15, 2007 - audio and video of my talk posted
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21/11/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
plasticbag : Ronan Bennett responds in the Guardian to Martin Amis' comments about Islam and Muslim people... Spotted via CityofSound - "Ask yourself what you are reading. An important question from a leading literary figure? A brave revenge fantasy? No. A major cultural and literary figure endorsing prejudice against Muslims."
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21/11/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
plasticbag : The UK Government has lost records pertaining to 25 million British people as a consequence of sending a few bits of physical media through the post... - A reminder—if ever there was needed one—that government is neither consistent enough in the long-term nor competent enough in the short to be entrusted with ever more information about its citizenry.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
plasticbag : My old department at the BBC has launched a blog concerned with its R&D activity and exploration of new technology... - It looks like Tristan and Chris have really managed to take the team that Webb and I used to run to new heights. Really want to know more about what they're up to at the moment.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
plasticbag : Revenue from print advertising is in radical decline with online advertising taking up much of the slack.. - If I was a betting man, I'd say that you could expect broadcast television advertising to be the next to be dramatically hit, in favour of targetted advertising packaged around on-demand download video.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : It's worth reading through Engadget's full list of posts on the Kindle from Amazon - That the future of content is digital distribution over the standard web is not a shock to me. Television is the obvious next step here too. I don't think it's here yet, but the mainstream ebook reader is definitely now on the horizon.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Flickr's awesome new 'Places' feature has launched, allowing you to go and see the best pictures of all kinds of places all over the world. - Lovely stuff. Develop a body of data (photos) and then hook it up with other data sources to enhance both. Each dataset navigable in terms of the other. The combination makes both more valuable.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Happy birthday to Danah Boyd on turning 30! - For anyone out there who's worried about turning thirty, let me reassure you. It's fine. it's great, actually. Thirty-one, on the other hand. That's a pain. You don't really see it coming.
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21/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Ben Goldacre writes a long, brilliant and—please god—persuasive debunking of Homeopathy for The Guardian - The horror for me here is that cultural studies' critiques and examinations of the process of science are partly responsible for the public suspicion of evidence and rationality. Makes me very sad.
Rod Begbie : What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian - Excellent article on homeopathy by Ben Goldacre -- not too ranty in an "all homeopathy is evil" way, rather a "homeopathy should be part of a discussion, if only for the benefits on the placebo effect, but we can't get the homeopaths to talk". Hopefully [via] #
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21/11/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jonhicks : Nokia lights up Regent Street
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Ethan Marcotte : Permalinks for comments in Basecamp - Please join me in welcoming 37signals to 2003, won't you? ∞
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21/11/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : A compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches - Must be trouble at the mill! (Via She.) ∞ [via]
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21/11/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : DrawerGeeks’ take on the Sith - There is still good in them. I sense it. ∞
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21/11/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Promotional posters for FOX’s upcoming “Sarah Connor Chronicles” - ∞
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21/11/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
deusx : antrix.net :: Which movies did I want to watch? - "I wrote this hack to carry my movie bookmarks with me, offline."
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21/11/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr! - Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!. The new Flickr Places feature has finally launched, and it’s absolutely beautiful. [via]
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21/11/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
43folders : What are the most intellectually stimulating podcasts? | Ask MetaFilter
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21/11/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Beantown Blues: The world has no concept of Boston's pain - "You know, there are infants who were born 18 days ago who don't know what it's like to see a Boston team win a championship in their lifetime" #
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21/11/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Results of the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition - "Welcome to IFComp 2007, the competition for short text adventures."
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21/11/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Rick James - Give It To Me Baby - "Music video by Rick James performing Give It To Me Baby with Rick James"
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21/11/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Re*Move: Planning cities - where others fear to tread - A little more on the bus-as-subway system.
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21/11/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : STEWART LEE - Officially the 41st Best Stand Up Ever :: Previous Work - Stewart Lee's uploaded high-quality versions of "Fist of Fun" and TMWRNJ to Google Video. Some of it hasn't aged well, but there's some great stuff in there. Definitely shaped my sense-of-humour. [via] #
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21/11/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | KLF frontman marks 'No Music Day' - Curmudgeon-par-excellence Bill Drummond promotes "No Music Day", and BBC Radio Scotland is going along with it, playing no music at all for 24 hours. #
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21/11/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : EVE Online | EVE API Documentation - "The EVE API is a platform created to allow third party tools (programs, web sites, etc) to access character and corporation data for the purpose of enhancing the EVE experience."
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21/11/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Lifestream Tinker Toy, Powered By Yahoo! Pipes [tail -f carlo.log] - "a lifestream is basically a big bucket (i.e. web page) where all the updates and update notifications from your blog, your ADD-induced Twitter posts, your Flickr uploads etc come together in one concise way so it’s easier for others to ignore them
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21/11/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
deusx : Howstuffworks "How World of Warcraft Works" - "In this article, we'll look at what it takes for data to become an interactive, persistent game world."
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deusx : mjt - "Mjt is an HTML templating engine that runs entirely in a web browser. It was built for the Freebase service, but it can be used for many other web services. It is distributed as open source."
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21/11/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
deusx : Golden-Crusted Brussels Sprouts Recipe - 101 Cookbooks - "This is the only way to eat brussels sprouts: cut in half and cooked until deliciously tender inside and perfectly brown and crusted on the outside."
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21/11/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : The Sorapot Is the Sexiest Teapot Ever | snarfd - "If Apple did housewares, this might be the iPot."
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21/11/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Affero General Public License Version 3
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21/11/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : Absolutely extraordinary World of Warcraft adverts, featuring William Shatner and ... insanely ... Mr T! - Approaching the funniest thing I've seen in forever. Like the man says on the web page, almost enough to get me to play WOW again, but that way dark dark unproductive madness lies...
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21/11/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Grickle's Closet - I don't know why I find Graham Annable's animations so funny, but I do; see also: The Last Duet on Earth
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21/11/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr launches Places and redesigned map views - big congrats to Rev. Dan, Kellan, and the rest of the flickr crüe
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Andy Baio : Flickr's second billion took three months - absolutely insane growth, though slightly skewed by the one-time Yahoo Photos user migration? [via]
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21/11/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Mr. T and William Shatner are shlepping World of Warcraft. - Subscriptions must be falling.
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21/11/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
factoryjoe : New Feature: Nsyght supports oauth - Nsyght rolls out support for OAuth. Excellent! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, nsyght
deusx : Nsyght » Blog Archive » New Feature: Nsyght supports oauth - "Over the weekend we quietly rolled out support for the oauth protocol."
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21/11/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Mock - Mocking and Test Utilities - Mock—Mocking and Test Utilities. New mocking library for Python based on the “action ... assertion” pattern (as opposed to the more common “record ... replay”). [via]
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21/11/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Weewar (Nat v.s. me) - Weewar (Nat v.s. me). Really impressive turn based strategy game, implemented entirely in the browser. Surprisingly addictive; you have been warned.
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21/11/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : Pay Me for My Content - New York Times - We could design information systems so that people can pay for content — so that anyone has the chance of becoming a widely read author and yet can also be paid. Information could be universally accessible but on an affordable instead of an absolutely f
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21/11/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : What Google has planned for Jaiku - Post + Location + Status = Value
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