4/01/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Hollywood Goes Too Far to Protect Content - Seeking Alpha - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drm
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4/01/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Peter Merholz Reviews “Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball” - A thoughtful write-up of a little-seen documentary I wrote about last July.
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4/01/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : ZSFA -- Ragel State Charts - and a bit on utu, which appears to be a distributed hate network
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4/01/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : Engaging Skills - 70% of the people surveyed indicated that they only use 15-20% of their skills in the current role.
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4/01/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : Kinoma - Kinoma Player Product Information - "With support for all the most popular streaming audio and video formats - including MP3, MPEG-4, Windows Media 9, RTSP, and Flash Video - you'll see and hear more internet streams with Kinoma Player 4 EX than any other Palm media player."
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4/01/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Lock up the Aids. - Huckabee makes Shrub look like a saint.
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4/01/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Erbert & Gerbert’s Human Flipbook
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4/01/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Scientists to make cows fart like kangaroos - Boing Boing - best boingboing headline ever
deusx : Scientists to make cows fart like kangaroos - "scientists in Australia are going to transfer intestinal bacteria of kangaroos into cattle and see what happens."
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4/01/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Interactions Magazine Relaunches - Looks promising, but they’re only offering excerpts from the printed magazine.
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4/01/2008 @ 19:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Star Wars remake from 1977. - All shot on glorious Super 8.
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4/01/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Signage Systems and Information Graphics. - I have it on good authority that this is an amazing book. Just ordered it myself.
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4/01/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Kirby Ferguson on shrinking attention spans - tl;dw
Ethan Marcotte : Passive resistance, like Gandhi - Pretty clever stu—OH LOOK A BIRD. (Via Waxy.) ∞ [via]
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Andy Baio : Game Innovation Database - like Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, a tremendous resource in an awkward Flash interface [via]
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4/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
factoryjoe : open...: Open Source: A Question of Metrics - "That's why free software works: you take some code and improve it - making it faster, more compact, less buggy - or, ideally, all three. It's why collaborative novels and symphonies rarely work. There's no clear way to improve on what's
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4/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Morethanseven » Things to entertain us in 2008 - "A few people have already waxed lyrical about Site Specific Browsers and after trying out Prism for a few weeks I can say I really like the idea. Their are a couple of teething problems, both with the idea and the current implementation
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4/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
factoryjoe : TM Themes - Your #1 Free Resource for TextMate Themes! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: textmate, themes
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4/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Scott Kveton · URL’s are people too … and service end-points - "If I can prove that I own the URL (and guess what, its actually me and I’m a person) now I can do all sorts of interesting things there. Put my friend list there. My activity stream. My updates. Contact information. You name it. Plug
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4/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
factoryjoe : that’s whacked » the timeliness of the Open Media Web - "But notice that Gonze’s message doesn’t say that content should be free. In fact, expanding upon this, I’d love to see platforms that provide canonical URLs with standards-based APIs for basic media functions and commerce, e.g. a
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4/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Spread OpenID - A new community site promoting OpenID. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: spreadopenid, openid
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4/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Hack the Planet: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - '"The data portability folks want to make it easy for you to jump from service to service. I want to make it easy for users of one service to talk to people on another service." I don't think this can be overstated. There aren't multiple
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4/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Tim Bray on Ruby on Rails
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4/01/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format - Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format. Google Maps does some pretty crazy bit mangling to create compressed versions of lat/long pairs.
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4/01/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Sixty seconds in the life of landing gear. - Please stow-away all portable electronic devices.
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4/01/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp. - An online exhibit.
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4/01/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Microsoft makes up for poor Live performance during the holidays. - I bet Sony wishes they had this problem.
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4/01/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : Carnegie Library Centennial Celebration Speech by Philip Church - more of an annotated table of contents to the department web site (which could still use lots of tlc)
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4/01/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
jonhicks : Chris Maggs' Firefox Tattoo - Apparently, there was so much colour needed, causing arm swelling, that it had to be done in 2 goes!
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4/01/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django on Jython - Django on Jython. Outstanding work from Jim Baker and the Jython team: Django now runs on the modern branch of Jython, with a couple of patches and some failed doctests due to dictionary order (a problem with Django’s test suite). [via]
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4/01/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The Dark Side Of The Moon - The Dark Side Of The Moon. Robert O’Callahan believes that Moonlight is a strategic mistake, because it gives credibility to Microsoft’s entry to a new market which they will use to “keep the competition on a treadmill”; Moonlight can also never [via]
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4/01/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : HTTP Cache Channels - HTTP Cache Channels. Interesting extension to the HTTP caching model by Mark Nottingham: caches can be told to subscribe to an Atom feed which alerts them to cached data that has gone stale. Group invalidation is also supported. [via]
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4/01/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : mnot’s Web log: Cache Channels Beta - "The default implementation uses an archived Atom feed to represent the contents of the channel, which the cache to stay in touch"
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4/01/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
wearehugh : Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection » Bad COPP No Netflix - no sympathy. none. go fuck yourself. oh wait, you already did.
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4/01/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Fantastic photo. Described in Reddit comments as "Beerkakke" [via] #
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4/01/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: Cursor*10 - ingenious game trains you to solve puzzles with multiple versions of yourself [via]
Rod Begbie : Cursor*10 (nekogames) - Fun flash game where how you play now defines how well you do on subsequent rounds. [via] #
joshua : Cursor*10 - cooperate with your self -- totally briiliant
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4/01/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Is the Horde Evil? | inactive banana - "If ... player actions are reflective of the player’s personal views and morale, we must concede that a significantly larger number of Alliance players finds enjoyment in inflicting grief and inhibiting player enjoyment and progression than Horde&q
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Greg Storey : How Iowa Democrats select their delegates. - This looks cool, maybe it's time to move to Iowa.
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Greg Storey : CNN has live video from the Iowa caucus. - Bring a snack and a drink and watch the grass grow.
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4/01/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
adamrg : rear view mirror - Reflections on the role of the automobile in the American identity.
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4/01/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Scanlation of Shintaro Kago's "Labyrinth" - NSFW comic about mazes, his work is often grotesque but some of the best comics I've seen [via]
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4/01/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Turbo Boost Tribute - "This Video includes almost all Turbo Boosts of the series!! "
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4/01/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Blog by Email « WordPress Codex - "Set up a cron job to periodically view http://example.com/installdir/wp-mail.php using a command-line HTTP agent like wget, curl or GET."
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gleuschk : Syracuse University Math Faculty Timeline (pdf) - very cool. hi mom!
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4/01/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Horsepower: An Exhibition by Students from The School of Visual Arts - Students from the school’s three-dimensional design program imagine the world without oil. Exhibition begins 02 Feb.
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4/01/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
cobra libre : dishola: dish-for-dish food drive - For every yummy dish that you review on dishola until January 15, they'll donate a meal to Meals on Wheels. #
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4/01/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : Why Math is Important, by Chuck Shepherd. San Jose Mercury News, 18 December 2007. - an engineer had used a `minus' sign when a `plus' sign was called for). The expensive levee repairs would actually protect against flooding only 6 inches above the Katrina level.
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4/01/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Do not treat Flickr photo IDs as integers - Do not treat Flickr photo IDs as integers. “The good news is, Flickr reached photo number 2147483647 yesterday. Go Flickr! The bad news is that number 2147483647 is the limit for signed integer data type.” [via]
nelson : 2 billion photos is bad - Flickr rolls over 2^31 and a bunch of software breaks
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