14/01/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Jellyvision: The Jack Principles - "The Jack Principles is the first set of comprehensive guidelines for designing, writing and performing for an interactive conversation." Great reading if you're developing software for humans. [via] #
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14/01/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES - Dicking around at CES? Fine. Slightly amusing, even. But dressing it up as "journalistic integrity" or "civil disobedience"?! Horseshit. [via] #
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14/01/2008 @ 22:02 GMT
joshua : programming: Bayesian weighting system - nice thread on valuating votes
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14/01/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Storage Analysis - Cost/GB for different sizes and media - Storage Analysis - Cost/GB for different sizes and media: updated hourly with newegg.com data
Rod Begbie : forre.st | storage - Graph of storage per dollar, based upon hard drive prices scraped hourly from NewEgg. 500Gb drives are the sweet spot currently, at $0.18/GB [via] #
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14/01/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Not-so-rich buy Texas Lottery's $50 ticket - Not-so-rich buy Texas Lottery's $50 ticket: that's really kind of sad
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14/01/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : Thoughts on Firefox 3.0 - O'Reilly XML Blog
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14/01/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Pistachio: Twitter is my Village - Great post by Laura "@Pistachio" Fitton. Exactly sums up why Twitter is so lovely: "For a contrived, weird and techy way to communicate, Twitter’s “passive conversation” fosters very natural, gradual relationship-building." #
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14/01/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Happy Birthday, Sheriff George! - Another social software village I'm a member of: Basset hound owners on Flickr. There's a great community forming of basset owners commenting on each others' photos, and here, celebrating the birthday of another Flickrer's dog! #
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14/01/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop - 2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop: kick ass
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14/01/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Greg Storey : You'll be a natural in Congress. - And I understand he's smooth with the ladies.
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14/01/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
joshua : Flash Element Tower Defense 2 - wonder if this one is better
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14/01/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD Player - Desperation play on Toshiba's part? They've dropped the price of their entry-level HD-DVD player to $130, which includes two movies, and a rebate form for five more. Even knowing the format is doomed, this is tempting me. #
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14/01/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Flash / UPnP exploit - Outside sites can force your router to forward ports. Very ugly.
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14/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : SANYO Solar Ark - The SANYO Solar Ark (gallery), "a unique, ark-shaped, solar photovoltaic power generation facility, offers activities to cultivate a better appreciation of solar power generation, and thereby of both ecology and science." Beautiful. Via Notcot. [via]
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14/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Better photo copyrights - Derek Powazek, half photographer half web geek, suggests a CSS technique for better photo copyrights.
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14/01/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Studio MIKMIK - Studio MIKMIK. Great design. Lots of inspiring stuff within.
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14/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD Player - Desperation play on Toshiba's part? They've dropped the price of their entry-level HD-DVD player to $130, which includes two movies, and a rebate form for five more. Even knowing the format is doomed, this is tempting me. #
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14/01/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: HD DVD will still win - Fantastic reading: HD-DVD fanboys in denial on Amazon discussion boards. #
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14/01/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : IBM reminds everyone it's still a heavy in the tech game. - Screw your home computer market.
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Greg Storey : Eris updates her blog for the first time in two years. - Now if we could just get an update with more English usage, that would be great.
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14/01/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Sony's game release schedule is full empty promises and tears. - At least I can watch Bluray movies, I guess.
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14/01/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : "We're looking at a 'medium' keynote" - "In a mild/medium/hot scale, where mild is a lame keynote that's mostly a 'state of the Apple Union' address and hot is a major new product along the lines of the iPhone, my gut feeling is that we’re looking at a medium -- spicy enough to be enjoyable,
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Cameron Moll : Высокий берег - Высокий берег. I've no idea what the site says, but the layout is solid.
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Cameron Moll : omspace.cn - omspace.cn. I wouldn't necessarily say this is something I could see myself designing, but the sheer fact this appears to be a Chinese design blog fascinates me.
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14/01/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
adamrg : Lecturer Bans Students From Using Google And Wikipedia (from The Argus) - Handing this to my students today, and asking them to respond.
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14/01/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Public Speaking Tips and Templates - A collection of links.
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14/01/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline - Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline. It’s not every day you see a piece of code you wrote compared to a Ford Pinto :)
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14/01/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : "With friends like these…" - Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of Facebook's backers. (Via Bronwyn.) ∞ [via]
philgyford : With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian - Yes, all very well, but I'm guessing Hodgkinson hasn't analysed the beliefs of the bosses of every company he has any interaction with, only the most attention-grabbing.
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14/01/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Data Visualization and Infographics - Some nice stuff from Smashing Magazine.
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14/01/2008 @ 10:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : xkcd : ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat - An interesting way to moderate IRC chat: Only allow unique new sentences to be spoken. #
joshua : Attacking Noise in Chat - the problems of noise vs stagnant communities and the effects of moderation
Andy Baio : xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat - a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that've never been spoken before [via]
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14/01/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Bike stand with integrated track pump - Superb idea which wouldn’t last a Friday night in Brighton.
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14/01/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : haudio - Microformats - "hAudio is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML"
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14/01/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Tweet what you eat! - Your daily food diary. Answers the question - what did you have to eat today? Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, diet, food
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14/01/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - "twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter"
Simon Willison : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter. Brilliant proof of concept by Ian McKellar: an OpenID provider that authenticates you by sending you a Twitter direct message. [via]
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14/01/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Ian Bicking: a blog :: What PHP Deployment Gets Right - "Mostly because it lets two groups separate their work: system administration types (including hosting companies) set up the environment, and developer types use the environment, and they don’t have to interact much. "
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14/01/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : A Two-Dimensional Quality Mesh Generator and Delaunay Triangulator
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14/01/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : Thinking more about Digital Dunbar Numbers - The Dunbar number is actually an absolute for someone at a moment in time. Our cognitive capacity can be augmented by the ability to discover or rediscover a tie, while letting another one implicitly disappear into the background, waiting to be rediscover
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deusx : Turkey Shepherd's Pie - "A healthy twist on an old favorite."
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deusx : Turkey Shepherd's Pie Recipe | Recipezaar
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deusx : Turkey Shepherd's Pie Recipe | Recipezaar - "This is an easy, healthy version of a traditional English dish, from the Colitis Cookbook."
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14/01/2008 @ 04:02 GMT
deusx : Butter Chicken - (Murgh Makhani) Recipe | Recipezaar - "This is an Indian dish very popular at restaurants and is somewhat similar to chicken tikka masala, but richer."
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14/01/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Chicken Makhani (Indian Butter Chicken) Recipe | Recipezaar - "It tastes better than the chicken makhani at my favorite Indian restaurant!"
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14/01/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : programming: Ask reddit: What settings can’t you live without in Emacs?
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14/01/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : The B-List: Shared hosting is not a ghetto
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14/01/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
Linkorama : Great Mavericks Surf Pics - via Steve Jurvetson, deborah d. lattimore photography- powered by SmugMug
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14/01/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007 (GovTrack.us) - "To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service..." Repeatedly reintroduced apparently to prove a point.
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14/01/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AND ALTERNATIVE SERVICE - "A conscientious objector is one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles."
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14/01/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Conscientious Objector - "This is a way that may protect you from fighting war if you do not believe that war is a good solution to our problems."
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14/01/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design - Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?
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