19/01/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
nelson : Lost Cosmonauts - Italians in the late 1950s recorded Soviet space launch communications
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19/01/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
gleuschk : Calculate the Value of Your Paper Savings Bond(s) - woohoo power of compound interest (since 1990!)
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19/01/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
gleuschk : Financial Clutter, What To Keep And What To Get Rid Of - ok, this one is new.
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19/01/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Colbert vs. Lou Dobbs - Paul's right, this is hugely bizarre. And more than a bit upsetting.
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19/01/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Detroit ruins - Book depository is deeply sad, also beautiful
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19/01/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : What financial records to keep and how long to keep them - every single other page on this topic quotes this one (or quotes someone else quoting this one [lifehacker, you dopes])
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19/01/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : New York Times cartoon critique of the major US campaign logos - The 'Kerry Edwards' logo of a few years ago comes in for particular ridicule.
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19/01/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Insane electronic contact lenses contain the material required to create a small display in LEDs - Apparently never been tested or powered up on humans, but rabbits wore them without ill effect. Not sure I like the idea of rabbits with super advanced contact lenses staring at me, but there you go.
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19/01/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : The Monkey Cage: What Predicts Success in Graduate Programs? Passing Comps versus Finishing the Dissertation - two hurdles that require completely distinct skills and talents.
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19/01/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : django-evserver - django-evserver. Marek Majkowski got Comet working with Django using a custom WSGI server that wraps libevent using ctypes.
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19/01/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo! OpenIDs are the same for all RPs - Yahoo! OpenIDs are the same for all RPs. I had assumed that Yahoo! would be using directed identity to provide a different OpenID for each user/site combination, to prevent correlation of accounts. I was incorrect; they’re just using it for easier sig
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19/01/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo! supporting OpenID 2.0 but not 1.1 - Yahoo! supporting OpenID 2.0 but not 1.1. Yahoo!’s Allen Tom outlines the reasons Yahoo! are supporting OpenID 2.0 but not OpenID 1.1.
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19/01/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Frost Ajax Library - official homepage - The Frost Ajax library is a tool for Ajax development on constrained browsers, such as micro browsers on mobile phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract the use of either the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent Acti
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19/01/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Stonebraker on MapReduce
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19/01/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies - Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies. Ryan points out that sizing everything in ems, while neat, imposes a pretty hefty maintenance cost and is rapidly becoming unnecessary thanks to the page zoom feature in IE 7, Opera and Firefox 3.0.
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19/01/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr's new places.find API method - pretty rad, allows for free-text searching of their entire place name database
Simon Willison : Flickr Place IDs - Flickr Place IDs. flickr.places.find, flickr.places.resolvePlaceURL and flickr.places.resolvePlaceID combine to provide a really useful, lightweight not-quite-a-geocoder API. It’s a shame you can’t search for places by providing a latitude/longitude
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19/01/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Blinksale | Blinksale API - "The API follows the REST style, and this guide should provide everything you need to implement software that works with Blinksale."
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19/01/2008 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : OAuth for ColdFusion - OAuth is a ColdFusion implementation of the OAuth protocol (http://oauth.net), based on the Core 1.0 specification (http://oauth.net/core/1.0/), published on 4th December 2007. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tag
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19/01/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : Terminal Emulator Poderosa - Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.
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19/01/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : You suck at Photoshop #3 - These are pretty damn funny
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19/01/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : FixMySpine - FixMySpine. JP muses over what would happen if huge government IT contracts were handed to small, agile teams like MySociety instead of gargantuan IT consultancies. I’ve often wondered the same thing.
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19/01/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
joshua : 22C3: I See Airplanes! - passive radar using radio transmitters. awesome
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19/01/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Database gods bitch about mapreduce - Database gods bitch about mapreduce: he's right, as usual
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19/01/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Three tips to protect your WordPress installation - Three tips to protect your WordPress installation: simple, good advice from Matt
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