20/12/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : Warren Ellis » God Hates The World - "The Westboro Baptist Church (that “God Hates Fags” crew from the heart of Jesusland USA) presents their cover “We Are the World,” rewritten and retitled as “God Hates the World.”"
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20/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming - Slide 10 is great, another way of looking at "Python isn't Java without the compile".
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20/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Web 2.0 Office Suite
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20/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - I predict that xkcd comic numbers will replace HTTP status codes in geek humor.
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20/12/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Maven: Broken By Design - Maven: Broken By Design. Charles Miller: “If you check out a particular version of your code and build it with particular versions of your tools, you should get a product that is binary-identical each time.”
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20/12/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
jcgregorio : YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe - Awesome stuff, including fielding questions from Donald Knuth.
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20/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : The accidental innovator - Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley's right brain
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20/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - 28 Acts In 28 Minutes - Fast-paced stand-up and sketches from BBC Radio 4. The great thing about this format is if you don't like an act, that's fine -- there'll be another one along in a minute. #
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20/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
WillPate : Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians
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20/12/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Boffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In the slang of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, boffins are scientists, engineers, and other people who are stereotypically seen as engaged in technical or scientific research"
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20/12/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : My 2007 in Blogs // Music // Events and Apps! // journal // hicksdesign - "I don’t even use Firefox & Firebug anymore, the revised Web Inspector in Leopard has been incorporated in Coda and that does everything I need and more."
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20/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : Featured Windows Download: Convert MP3 audiobooks for the iPod with MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter - need to remember to put this on mom's laptop over the holiday
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20/12/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Greg Storey : WSJ is speculating that if Hillary wins, she'll make hubby a Supreme Court Justice. - I think he just wants to eat BBQ and play golf, but whatever.
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Greg Storey : Think Secret is dead, long live Think Secret. - Waiting for the Daring Fireball response.
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20/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Eventually Consistent - Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB.
jcgregorio : Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed
joshua : Werner Vogels on Eventually Consistency - design considerations for distributed databases
nelson : Eventually Consistent - Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices
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20/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 2007 Flying [video] - 2007 Flying [video]: a nice video of flying various planes in the northern california area
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20/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy - Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy: a fantastic little shitstorm about codebase size/complexity/bloat and modern languages
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20/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Potters - The Potters. Header elements play well together, a touch of snow. Nice design, Ben.
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20/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : iPod gramaphone - Phonofone II, essentially a gramaphone for your iPod. "Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibles* (or roughly the m
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20/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
43folders : THE PRAGMATICS OF HUMOR: Representing Communication - "Cleese...says, 'I think any time I see a possibility of a misunderstanding, I jump on it.'"
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20/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Facebook in 50 years - "You just got poked with a walking stick, poke back?"
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20/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Design - Design. A very fancy suite of design tools wrapped up in a bookmarklet (that loads an external script). Includes grids, rulers, measurements and a crosshair.
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20/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : First Firefly now Arrested Development. - Wake up FOX, your track record is shameful.
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20/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest living British monarch ever. - Whatever she's been eating all these years, I'll take two.
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20/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Paste Magazine's best of 2007. - I'm shocked Red Carpet Massacre didn't make the top ten. Shocked!
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20/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : James Hindle: Comics and Illustration
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20/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
43folders : Baby on Board? The ABCs of Cruising With an Infant or Toddler |
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20/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : IE8 Passes Acid2 Test - IE8 Passes Acid2 Test. This is huge. As Kevin Yank points out, this means IE8 includes proper support for the object tag, CSS table layout properties and generated content.
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20/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Best Blogs of 2007 that You Maybe Aren't Reading - Rex's brilliantly-curated list of new, underrated blogs
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20/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : RTM + Gmail = task management goodness - using the gmail greasemonkey api!
Rod Begbie : Remember The Milk + Gmail = task management goodness - Brilliant use of Google's newly-exposed Gmail API to seamlessly blend to-do lists into your Gmail UI. [via] #
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20/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Light Scoop for Digital SLR Cameras - Clever, inexpensive attachment makes your built-in flash infinitely more useful.
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20/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: Today’s HDTV, or Next Years? - Good article on whether to buy now or wait for better/cheaper technology.
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20/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jcgregorio : The Associated Press: FCC Accepts Google's Auction Application - Verizon Wireless also submitted an application, but it was labeled "incomplete," meaning the company will have to resubmit it and include more information.
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20/12/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Featured Windows Download: Synchronize Folders with SyncToy 2.0 - seems to be the way to go
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20/12/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Ryan Brenizer's Amazon Blog: Platon through the looking glass - fascinating comparison of two photos: one of Putin, one of Bill Clinton
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20/12/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript - "While I’d love to be able to leverage Google’s bandwidth and the increase in simultaneous http requests to my client’s browsers, I still prefer the security of knowing where my data is (and having the only key)." Says the commenter with a
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20/12/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Think Secret - Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit - Think Secret shutdown by Apple! WTF! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
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20/12/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NYC's area/code created Chain Factor, the Flash game turned ARG - a wonderfully addictive Flash game, it also acted as a trailhead for a month-long ARG for CBS's Numb3rs [via]
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20/12/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Long list of 2008's anticipated films - I'm most excited about Benjamin Buttons, The Box, Be Kind Rewind, Where the Wild Things Are, and Wall-E [via]
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20/12/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : This Old Network » Blog Archive » IIW, OpenLifeBits, and Facebook’s Beacon - "I feel strongly that Beacon is only the first public-facing version of what these large corporations have been doing for years. It is completely naive to think that companies will give away their services for free to the consumer withou
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20/12/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : GOOG-411 created to train speech-to-text software - running the free service to build up a corpus of voices? neat idea, but seems inefficient
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20/12/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Non-believing US voters feel demonized - no, no i'm pretty sure they don't feel "demon"ized
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20/12/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Twenty-year-old Civics got 57 miles per gallon - Twenty-year-old Civics got 57 miles per gallon: "Looking back at the 1987 Honda Civic CRX shows us why cars use so much more gas today and about the trade-offs we've had to make."
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20/12/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 0 + 1307 - 0 + 1307: "So anyway, congratulations to Six Apart for finally joining the open community of freedom-loving pussy eaters." Heh.
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20/12/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones - Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones: kick ass
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20/12/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Newsvine - A Preview of Things: Mac GTD at its Best - The field of Mac "Getting Things Done" task managers is becoming crowded with quality applications. The public beta of OmniFocus is finally available and folks are generally pleased with what the experienced developers at OmniGroup have
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Rod Begbie : Peggle - The awesome Peggle is now available for Mac, for anyone who hasn't yet been caught in its crack-like addiction. And only $10 to register until the end of the year. Well worth it. [via] #
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20/12/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Parallels vs. VMWare. - Parallels is like bad shareware on Leopard, go Fusion.
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20/12/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Names used by major presidential candidates in the series of Democratic and Republican debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. - An infographic.
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20/12/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : VespeneGas DOT Com - "This is a port of Rise of the Triad for the Nintendo DS"
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20/12/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : GSK - a C Library for Writing Services
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20/12/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Parachute Pants City. - Cardboard breakdance mats sold separately.
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20/12/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
joshua : Entity Crisis: Pylons Rocks - on pylons vs django as a framework
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