27/11/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Mélaqngerie Inc. - A New York City-based design consultancy that creates “custom gift experiences that carefully consider the relationship between the giver and the recipient.”
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Linkorama : Business Idea of the Day - Will donate to Kiva to match every idea
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Linkorama : RE: Making Kiva More Viral - Seesmic praise in response ot my seesnip
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27/11/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Oxford Geek Night 4 - Oxford Geek Night 4. Tomorrow night, usual venue. Topics include mySociety, Pylons, MythTV and more.
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27/11/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
plasticbag : BBC News story about the $100 laptop and the political problems that are stifling it - It's not by any means obvious that a laptop per child is the most urgent need in some countries, but it clearly could help some countries dramatically leapfrog their next generation. I for one hope it finds a market.
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27/11/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : GPL code in PS2 game - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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27/11/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3 - Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3: a good look at using S3 for hosting images and media
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Khoi Vinh : Alex Trochut: Creativity, Type & Illustration - Beautiful if not always legible typographic illustrations.
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27/11/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: Unlocking the Benefits of Garlic
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27/11/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jonhicks : Textpattern Resources v2: Per-Section Custom Fields
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27/11/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Simon Willison : sorl-thumbnail - sorl-thumbnail. This looks like a decent attempt at a generic Django thumbnailing service, but I’m always wary of code that allows URL hackers to create large numbers of files that will be cached to disk.
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27/11/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Thinking Space: Multip-layer Abstractions: World Wide Web or Giant Global Graph or Others - "The emergence of this new Graph abstraction of Internet tells that the Web (or information on Internet) is now evolving from a publisher-oriented structure to a viewer-oriented structure. At the Web layer, every web page shows an inform
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27/11/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Who is afraid of the GGG? - A fascinating review of the big GGG discussion of the past week. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ggg, tbl, tim berners-lee, social graph, semantic web
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27/11/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : reddit.com: AP Photo of the President and some fucking asshole that bankrupted our country and killed 1,000,000+ people. - "This gets my vote for best reddit headline of the year."
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27/11/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Jetty WebServer - Jetty WebServer. Jetty 6.1 was the only cometd / Bayeaux implementation I tried which worked out of the box.
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27/11/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Linkorama : Goldman Turns Cautious On Software - The firm asserts that “with software a typically back-end loaded sale, if there is any concern on budgets in the early part of 2008, we would expect CIOs to hold off their purchases until later in the year.”
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27/11/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Paris riots - I'll never understand the French feeling entitled to daily revolution
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27/11/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Interesting news - Billie Piper is to return to Doctor Who for three episodes in the new season... - Don't quite know how they're going to pull that particularly one off.
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Greg Storey : Peace in the Middle East by '08 or bust. - Still, we are living in a world without hover cars.
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27/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Bite moi. - Now I have a really good reason to visit Australia.
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27/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Scalable media hosting with Amazon S3. - Time to start Airbag Hosting Limited.
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27/11/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Naz's "musical version of a doodle." - Sounds hot! More please.
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27/11/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Using django.newforms with Pylons - Using django.newforms with Pylons. It’s always good to see Django components used outside of the framework itself. For the record, you can avoid the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable entirely using django.conf.settings.configure (search for
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27/11/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Born standing up. - NPR interviews Steve Martin.
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27/11/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Baby Bargains Dishes Dirt - article about the authors of "Baby Bargains" - interesting side note on the vaccination/autism foofawraw
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27/11/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Back lot photos from Zack Snyder’s upcoming Watchmen - Please, please don’t suck. ∞
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27/11/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
gleuschk : Taming Baby Rage: Why Are Some Kids So Angry?: Scientific American - it ain't TV ... in fact you may soon be able to eugenically opt for a non-aggressive baby
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27/11/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ron Paul Blimp - $235k in pledges so far; oh, the humanity
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27/11/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : ROFLCon's Guest List status report - shaping up to be one of the strangest conventions of all time
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27/11/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites » Archives » M.U.L.E. coasters - "Chances are the M.U.L.E. fan in your life is of drinking age, so what better gift than these coasters?"
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27/11/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
deusx : Gametrailers.com - EVE Online: Trinity - Trailer HD - "Not only is this expansion packed with new features, but it also includes an amazing - and beautiful - graphics update"
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27/11/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BeInSync - BeInSync: One-stop, simple and automatic solution for all your valuable data. Incorporates integrated online backup,
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27/11/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : PowerFolder - PowerFolder: PowerFolder is a Secure, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Tool. Easily share, backup, synchronize and access files over the Internet or in LAN
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27/11/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
plasticbag : There's a new N95 firmware update out and apparently it massively improves GPS performance. Interesting! - Matt Biddulph found this one. Anything that's good for the N95 is good for Fire Eagle. Mobile phones that you can build on with GPS units installed are cool and future and stuff like that.
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27/11/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
plasticbag : One of my absolute favourite films of recent years, you have to go and see 'No Country for Old Men' - It sounds like a tedious movie. It's anything but. The thriler-like aspects are astonishing, the attention to detail incredible, the creativity and insight astonishing, the cinematography absurdly good. Must see.
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27/11/2007 @ 08:05 GMT
Greg Storey : Podcasting holiday gift guide. - Ryan, what about microphones?
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27/11/2007 @ 08:04 GMT
factoryjoe : www.saturdayhouse.org - Seattle Saturday House - "Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do ... whatever they want! People work on projects, people talk about ideas, people conspire and hatch plans, and people play games with each other. It's been c
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27/11/2007 @ 08:03 GMT
adamrg : How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
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27/11/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
deusx : RetroBlast! - The Shredz64 Project - "Toni Westbrook has taken the time to interface a PS2 Guitar Hero controller with a C-64 and then build, from scratch, a Guitar Hero-ish type game to use the controller with."
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Andy Baio : Fray relaunches as a quarterly printed book - the original community for personal storytelling comes back after two years of hiatus
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27/11/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
Greg Storey : "...I buy fonts from those guys all the time." which mom and dad might remember come next year. - I know, right? So, when can I make a wish list that lets friends and family gift fonts for me?
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27/11/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : OAuth-ruby | Google Groups - The mailing list for OAuth Ruby hackers! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, ruby, mailing list
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27/11/2007 @ 06:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Soviet kitsch. - That reminds me, I really should move to a colder climate.
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27/11/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Greg Storey : The government of Abu Dhabi is now Citigroup's largest shareholder. - The Great Erosion continues.
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27/11/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
adamrg : I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - mp3 blog of christmas songs... detailed and obscure.
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27/11/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification - "The Recipe Sharing Protocol (RSP) is a standard for sharing and publishing recipe information over a network." Seems to be crying out for AtomPub.
joshua : Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification - looks like they're reinventing http ... over http? seems like the RSPML is the hard part anyway, which does not appear to be documented.
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27/11/2007 @ 04:04 GMT
Greg Storey : Facts and photos from the backlot of Watchmen. - More please.
philgyford : The Backlot (Watchmen) - I was trying not to get my hopes up about the movie, but then I saw this and I'm getting very, very excited. Hopefully this won't all end in tears.
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27/11/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
adamrg : J.F.K.’s Death, Re-Framed - New York Times
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27/11/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News) - "I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."
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27/11/2007 @ 03:10 GMT
factoryjoe : 360workspace - Coworking Environment - Another coworking space in Minnesota! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: coworking, minnesota
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27/11/2007 @ 03:09 GMT
factoryjoe : BarCampAuckland - "BarcampAuckland is a free event that is going to be held to encourage and refresh the web community in New Zealand. It will do this by encouraging the discussion (by every attendee) about design and development ideas, concepts or theori
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27/11/2007 @ 03:08 GMT
factoryjoe : Montreal Coworking » Intro - Montreal Coworking! Sweet! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Montreal, Coworking
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27/11/2007 @ 03:06 GMT
deusx : Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion « WordPress Codex - "Some people consider this to be much easier than following the standard WordPress installation and upgrade methods (downloading and unzipping archives, then using FTP to put them on your web host), and this article explains how to do it."
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deusx : The Video Game Name Generator! - "Canadian Wizard Dynasty"
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Jeremy Zawodny : American Airlines Worldwide Reservations Phone Numbers - American Airlines Worldwide Reservations Phone Numbers: here's how to call them on the phone
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Jeremy Zawodny : Cheney experiences irregular heartbeat - Cheney experiences irregular heartbeat: "Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a defibrillator six years ago." Holy Shit!
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Jeremy Zawodny : WTF: Adobe Reader 8 - WTF: Adobe Reader 8: "It is getting dark. You are likely to be eaten by a competitor."
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Andy Baio : Ze Frank on feeling uninspired - "let's not wait for inspiration, but let's be ready for it when it comes"
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27/11/2007 @ 02:06 GMT
Greg Storey : Sleevage. - A blog dedicated to album covers.
Rod Begbie : Sleevage : Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design. - Great blog analysing and documenting album cover design. [via] #
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43folders : Innovative uses for Excel to improve life? | Ask MetaFilter
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deusx : Drosera - WebKit - Trac - "Drosera is a JavaScript debugger for WebKit that can be used with any application that uses WebKit. Like the Web Inspector, over 90% of it is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Is All Over Facebook - Yahoo! Is All Over Facebook: lots of yahoo stuff that can appear on facebook
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27/11/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Man vs. Nature - Man vs. Nature: "In general, we seem to be locked into a cycle of creating technologies to solve problems created by our previously created technologies." So true...
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Andy Baio : Gameplay footage from The Act, cancelled coin-op game - the unusual game used cel-style animation and a knob to control the character's mood from serious to silly [via]
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joshua : Robust De-anonymization of Large Datasets (How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset) - nice piece on the problem with releasing datasets
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gleuschk : How to use Japanese style toilet - terribly, terribly informative
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gleuschk : So what - Miles Davis & John Coltrane - I wish youtube had been around when I was first discovering this stuff
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wearehugh : Windows Genuine Advantage : Learning and Improving - some people are so far gone that it's not even worth talking to them.
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Greg Storey : Since when did Wordpress being hacked become a common occurrence? - $200M evaluation my ass.
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Greg Storey : "Well, I've never made a secret of my love for space travel." - Candid interview with the Blue Beanie.
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gleuschk : Set Theory: Should You Believe? - fantastic rant
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gleuschk : Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing - Despite not being numbers, the letters were reportedly meant to represent mathematics too. The scientists seemed to believe that correct math was what would help make the science thing go.
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gleuschk : Regular Everyday Normal Guy [video w/sound, cuss words] - I'm the Pauly Shore of everyday life
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27/11/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock - Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock. Les UX (previously known for constructing a secret underground cinema in the Paris catacombs) strikes again.
Andy Baio : Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock - the same group responsible for the secret cinema and bar built in a cavern under Paris
nelson : Stealth clock repair - Amazing story of an unauthorized repair to the Pantheon clock in Paris
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Jeremy Zawodny : Cancelling Facebook - Cancelling Facebook: I should do that too...
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27/11/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : LucasArts game engine ported to iPhone - all their classic adventure games running full-speed with multitouch control
deusx : Iphone Gaming: Native LucasArts Games Emulation Makes iPhone Absolutely Perfect - "After a long wait, here is the application that makes the iPhone absolutely perfect: ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play LucasArts and Sierra graphic adventures, is now fully working on the iPhone"
Rod Begbie : Iphone Gaming: Native LucasArts Games Emulation Makes iPhone Absolutely Perfect - OK, time to Jailbreak my iPhone again... [via] #
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