22/12/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Happy <Holiday Name Here> - Christmas card from Aperture Science and the Portal team [via]
nelson : Happy <Holiday Name Here> - Aperture Science wishes you a happy holiday
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22/12/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight? - Scientific analysis of your chances against the eternal question. I could manage 20, apparently. #
plasticbag : How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight? - Apparently I could take eighteen.
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22/12/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : I Waterboard! - Straight Dope member waterboards himself and writes about the experience [via]
Ethan Marcotte : I waterboard! - "I'll put it this way. If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question." ∞
Rod Begbie : Straight Dope Message Board - I waterboard! - Someone voluntarily goes under "waterboarding" to decide if it's really torture or not. "If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question." [via] #
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22/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Apple threatening legal action against Fake Steve Jobs? - definitely seems real, and doing nasty business on the Saturday before Christmas is pretty typical
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22/12/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Snowclone.pl, Perl script to query snowclone variations from Google - used often here, it also supports searching Yahoo, Live.com, Google Groups, Google Blog Search, and Gigablast
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22/12/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Stephen Fry: Dork talk - Stephen Fry writes about the HTML5 ogg video debacle -- he's even more geeky that I'd previously imagined. What a hero! #
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22/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Butter Label sketchbooks are now available. - Very, very limited run.
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22/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : John Maeda to RISD - My favourite professor from the MIT Media Lab is moving on
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22/12/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
cobra libre : Matisse: Ulysses - "Matisse did not read Joyce before executing the etchings, but instead reread Homer's Odyssey." #
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22/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Archbishop of Wales has gone off on one about 'Atheistic fundamentalism' in which apparent lunatics declare religion to be 'superstitious nonsense' - Fascinated by how he could describe the following of a logical argument and a willingness to be proven incorrect a form of 'fundamentalism'. I suspect he's chosen his examples pretty carefully to illustrate a point too.
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22/12/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : On similarly disturbing territory, Tony Blair has converted to the Catholic faith... - Pretty fascinating stuff. This is a man who had his authoritarian streak, clearly - and evidently believed in a faith I find near absurd. Also a man who protected a woman's right to choose and made gay people more equal than ever...
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22/12/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
nelson : Seed: evolution game - Neat little procedural toy
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22/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : The King Of Kings | The Complete Chris Sharma Interview - with some awesome photos
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22/12/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Pvote - Pvote. Electronic voting machine software in 460 lines of highly readable Python (using Pygame), implemented by Ka-Ping Yee for his doctoral dissertation. Demonstrates prerendering, where as much of the UI as possible is defined in a separate ballot def [via]
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22/12/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds - Speeding up dateutil: Python’s heapq module turns minutes into seconds. Neat case study in data structure optimisation.
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22/12/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Hacking an NYC taxi's backseat kiosk - these things are so irritating, it's nice to see someone find a good use for them
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22/12/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Tracking Digg's most unpopular comments - it's a troll's paradise
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22/12/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Jingler - turns any MP3 into Christmas music with beat-matched sleigh and jingle bells (and Santa!) [via]
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22/12/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Microformats are Awesome, Now Put Them to Work for Your Site | Compiler from Wired.com - "Russell has a point and more tools like Operator would certainly be nice, but microformats data can be used today in all sorts of tangible and interesting ways." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats
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22/12/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : BehindLogic: Rails Blog: OAuth is a key to the future: The longings of the average user and how they can be addressed - "My previous post talked a bit about the needs for web apps that interconnect seamlessly, yet securely and without requiring the user to constantly log in to this site and that. Eran Hammer-Lahav, a contributor to OAuth, provided his com
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22/12/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Meta 419 Scam - pretends to reach out to victims of Nigerian scams, with a convenient $1M payment [via]
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22/12/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Dolphins speak a contextual language - life - 21 December 2007 - New Scientist - "This communication is highly complex, and it is contextual, so in a sense, it could be termed a language"
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22/12/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : I Am Legend DVD screener leaked to BitTorrent - there should be a special name for this time of year, when Oscar screeners flood the net
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22/12/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Andy Baio : xkcd's Randall Munroe speaks at Google - I love this guy
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22/12/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Marbles of Hard Use on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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22/12/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."
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22/12/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : ChiliPad keeps your mattress hot, cold - Engadget - "If Chili is to be believed, this thing can be set to cool things down to 65°F or warm 'em up to 100°F, and yes, it does come in single- and dual-zone versions."
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22/12/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : bacon-_flowchart.jpg 791×1024 pixels - Mmm... bacon
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22/12/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Incredibly weird story from the Daily Telegraph in the UK about a guy who has the virus that causes warts but whose body can't control it... - He grows all these freaky root and branch like growths all over his body to the extent that he can no longer use his hands. Totally disturbing.
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22/12/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : "Things get better incrementally and not in huge jumps." - Boosh.
Ethan Marcotte : Getting Better - Newly minted Airbagger Stephen Caver drops some mindbombs on us. It's all about moderation, people. ∞
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Greg Storey : A tale from a Baghdad fish restaurant. - I'd love to know what the food tastes like.
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22/12/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Soon you'll be able to get yourself a little iPhone plug-in GPS unit, which looks pretty cool. - Wonder what the software is like. Useful and good for Fire Eagle. Was interested in what was going to happen since the iPhone deformed the direction of smart phones (in a cool direction) in the US.
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22/12/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Zero Punctuation's review of Guitar Hero III is pretty extraordinary - As usual. Frankly, the man's a god and his tiny animations and cartoons are genius. Tiny little hands. Very cute.
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plasticbag : Cityshrinker is a lovely site that displays photos taken with that particular trick of tilt-shift cameras that makes real-life scenes look like photographs of tiny models... - It's difficult to explain and occasionally hard to believe. Very much worth having an explore. Some of it is beautiful.
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