18/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Linkorama : Hearing examines 'e-government' glitches - Lieberman also praised Wikipedia's quick, collaborative nature -- something not easily found on Capitol Hill. "We could use some of that," he said. "But we don't legislate wiki-ly."
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18/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Digital Footprints - However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice.
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18/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : eBay auction: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards - "You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad." Hooray for the internet! [via] #
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18/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
cobra libre : "Slavoj Žižek" on Kinder Surprise #
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deusx : TOM WALSH: 3 tech firms to add 532 jobs in state - "ProQuest, a digital repository and provider of scholarly documents from all over the world, now employs 478 people in Michigan. It expects to create 303 jobs during the next five years"
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18/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : Paul Brand: A few simple steps to store a car for winter - need to remember to start up the Honda every few weeks
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gleuschk : long profile of Jim Simons at bloomberg.com - did I mention it was long?
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18/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Star Wars lost intro - It's awful, but now I know who the hell Biggs is
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18/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Okay, that’s it. It’s officially time to turn off the internet. - Bronwyn, is this your latest side project? (Via lisamac.) ∞ [via]
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18/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : BusinessWeek on Target - Good to see the case getting some mainstream coverage. ∞
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jonhicks : Band Of Horses live - Great live footage of my new favourite band performing in an LA record store
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18/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Kant Attack Ad [video] - Kant Attack Ad [video]: heh... excellent
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18/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Awesome Battlestar Galactica Propoganda posters - I'm going to have to get myself some of these when they become available at the end of the year.
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18/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Kada is a lovely and super-fashionable new display font that I've sort of got a thing for... - There are other ones like it at the moment, but so far this is the one I like most.
jonhicks : RBG6 | Kada
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18/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : "The New(er) Typography: Counterless, Bold and mostly Geometric" - Fascinating journey through some of the most interesting display type that's cutting edge at the moment. Gorgeous stuff. Somehow reminds me of all the Penguin covers from the 1960s I'm seeing on Ffffound.
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18/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Digg for $300M? - I have a client who needs to watch this story closely, you know who you are.
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18/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite - Ninety-four percent of U.S. consumers have never heard of Web-based productivity suite alternatives. A mere 0.5 percent have substituted Web-based productivity suites for desktop software such as Microsoft Office.
wearehugh : Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser - R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite - nowhere to go but up! :)
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18/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Release 1.0 Back Issues - Good to read the report that had me first meet Kevin Werbach
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deusx : how is babby formed? - cavemen read Y! answers
Andy Baio : Flash: How is babby formed? - apparently pretty old, but made me laugh; the original thread on Yahoo! Answers
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18/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Amazon.co.uk: Matthew R. Balousek's review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, b... - "I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen"
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18/12/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
jonhicks : hicksmade - My wife Leigh has just launched her new site, Hicksmade, for her handmade felt goods!
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18/12/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : .ai file QuickLook plugin - Works well, but you need to view source on the page and remove the break tags from the XML.
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18/12/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
plasticbag : Interesting news if you live in my tiny world - Chad Dickerson is to take over Yahoo Advanced Products from Scott Gatz, bringing him into extreme proximity with the Brickhouse team... - Perhaps this is of niche interest, but I've always wanted to work with Chad again after our time in Techdev together, and the Hack Day London we organised with that nice chap from the BBC. All that stuff. Yay.
Jeremy Zawodny : A new role at Yahoo! - A new role at Yahoo!: Chad's moving on but staying in the family. Good for him!
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18/12/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
plasticbag : My Endpoints, Let me show you them... - Disturbing OAuth cartoon that is keeping me awake. Just in case you're unsure why I care, it's because OAuth is useful and is right in the middle of the micro-thin FireEagle front-end...
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18/12/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Scott Kveton · Activity Streams for the Open Web - "I could pull out the bits of information from the activity stream that are relevant/interesting to me and do more with them like resolve them to my own catalog (in the case of music). Same could be true with books, movies, videos and ot
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18/12/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Dash Express GPS Video and Deets: True Traffic Reporting and Custom Maps for $599 - I *really* like the look of this upcoming GPS -- it gathers the speeds of other users over time and warns you when there's slow traffic ahead, even on roads that SmartTraveller, etc. don't cover. Will have to check them out at CES. #
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18/12/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day (WWPAD) and Website Pro Day (WPD) » Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) - "Being a freelancer is cool, but it can sometimes be a bit lonely. That’s why ideas like coworking and barcamp are very important to us: it’s a chance to get together with “colleagues”. Well, it can also be done in a slightly les [via]
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18/12/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
nelson : Paris neighbourhoods - Handy little map!
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18/12/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs. - Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provide
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18/12/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
adamrg : Let a thousand Mules bloom [dive into mark]
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gleuschk : The trouble with five - nice article about tilings
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gleuschk : Feature: Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps - many things here I've heard of, but never investigated. I take this as my cue.
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