21/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Medical myths -- Vreeman and Carroll 335 (7633): 1288 -- BMJ - Common medical myths debunked.
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21/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
cobra libre : if:book: ron silliman: "the chinese notebook" - The eBook is a lossy format: 'Project Gutenberg happily presents their version of Tristram Shandy online in a plain text version: at certain points, the reader sees "(two marble plates)" or "(two lines of Greek)" and is left to wonder how much the text h #
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21/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Creepypasta - Encyclopedia Dramatica - "Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on /b/."
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21/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : International Dialing Codes - International Dialing Codes: a good reference to have on hand when traveling
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21/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
cobra libre : Twilight of the Books - Begins as a Chicken Little piece on the decline of reading, but veers into a fascinating discussion of orality and literacy. #
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21/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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21/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Newspaper accidentally identifies thief on the front page - photos from two different stories showed the same man painting a storefront and stealing a wallet
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21/12/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Greg Storey : R2-D2. - I have to admit I got a little teary-eyed when I opened the box.
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21/12/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Wired: The Very Best iPhone Imitators
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21/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 30 of the best AJAX tutorials - 30 of the best AJAX tutorials.
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21/12/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
cobra libre : Torture, American style - "It might make Americans uncomfortable, but the modern repertoire of torture is mainly a democratic innovation." #
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cobra libre : Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites" #
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21/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rock Band: What you really sound like - stop harshing my delusion [via]
plasticbag : What you sound like when you're playing Rock Band... - Cal and I spent quite a lot of the break over Christmas and New Year obsessively playing Rock Band and World of Warcraft and ordering in the odd pizza. I actually think they sound quite good. Full marks for trying guys!
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21/12/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
jcgregorio : A Solar Grand Plan: Scientific American - Even using their extremely conservative numbers, which I think are way too conservative, the plan still manages to work.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
jcgregorio : EPA chief is said to have ignored staff - Los Angeles Times - "But his staff, which had worked for months on the waiver decision, concluded just the opposite, the sources said Thursday." Shocked.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Airbag as seen from around the world - Airbag as seen from around the world.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Rock Band Logos - Rock Band Logos, a running critique of, well, you can probably guess.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Trailer: The Dark Knight - Trailer: The Dark Knight, sequel to Batman Begins.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile web app interfaces linked up - 37signals: Mobile web app interfaces linked up.
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21/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Flight of the Conchords: Jenny - Flight of the Conchords performing live: "Jenny".
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21/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : TypeTrust: Epic - Beautiful new type release from TypeTrust: Epic. I might have to gift myself an early Christmas present...
Ethan Marcotte : Neil Summerour’s latest typeface, Epic - Oh, my. Do want. ∞
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21/12/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : commonly believed medical "facts" that there is no evidence to support - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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21/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : A new trailer, a new list, a new theory - cantwaitcantwaitcantwait
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21/12/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Lakota withdraw from treaties, declare independence from U.S. - On Deadline - USATODAY.com - This is actually a much bigger deal than the scant news coverage would have you believe.
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21/12/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Martenhoepla - Liedjes van 2007 met leuk en een clip [via]
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21/12/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Using Unipath to Keep Things Portable - Using Unipath to Keep Things Portable. Django tip to avoid hard-coding full paths. I usually set a global called OUR_ROOT in settings.py using os.path.dirname(__file__) and use os.path.join with it to construct any other paths that I need.
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21/12/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Colin's Bear Animation - "thanks for nothing"
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21/12/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Deciding the Long Bet winner for weblogs vs. the New York Times in Google - Rogers Cadenhead finds that while blogs beat the NYT, Wikipedia crushed them both [via]
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plasticbag : yugop.com is a freaky design and animation Flash toy site. - I do love these sites, even as I know they're sort of pointless. Like proper art these. Explorations of form without the need for any utility other than to delight.
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21/12/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Animator vs. Animation - When tweens attack. ∞
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Ethan Marcotte : New teaser trailer for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - Hope it sucks less than the first one. ∞
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21/12/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : My exclusive coverage of BravoNation, Yahoo! Brickhouse's newest launch - take that, Arrington!
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21/12/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Vladimir Putin is TIME's Person of the Year. - Great interview, don't miss it.
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21/12/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Passage - Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator's statement. Lovely. [via] #
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21/12/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
nelson : The snowclones database - A whole blog and list of stupid cliches
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21/12/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
plasticbag : BravoNation is a new (invitation only) service from Yahoo! Brickhouse, where I work. It's the brainchild of Gordon Luk (one of the Upcoming founders)... - Also to be celebrated are Ernie Hsiung (of LittleYellowDifferent), Nikkil Bob and Kevin Cheng of OKCancel who also worked on the project. Small, agile, fun projects for the win!
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