4/03/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Greg Storey : A mental model for a cat. - No where do I see grow opposable thumbs but I know it's on their agenda.
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4/03/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Greg Storey : "Today I had $4,000 worth of goods stolen from my small, humble abode." - Sorry to hear that Keegan.
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4/03/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Aromatherapy no worky. - Also, flavored water is a joke. Hopefully you don't need science to know that.
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4/03/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
joshua : tanjent: MurmurHash, final version.
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nelson : Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook - Google executive leaves for Facebook
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4/03/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Airborne Settlement - If you've ever paid for the popular placebo "Airborne" (or are willing to pretend to to get some free cash), you can claim your money back, since they now admit they falsely claimed they had ever run a clinical study, although this cannot and should not b [via] #
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4/03/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Notional Slurry » There are exactly two ways: one, and many - "So a generalist pays the rent, in the end, by having a reputation (social capital) and a wide-ranging interest (intellectual capital) and trading those for money."
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4/03/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Design details of Audiogalaxy.com’s high performance MySQL search engine | Spiteful.com - "At peak times, the search engine needed to handle 1500-2000 searches every second against a MySQL database with about 200 million rows."
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4/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Principles and Legality - Principles and Legality. Eric Meyer notes that language about legality in Microsoft’s recent IE announcement suggests that Opera’s much criticised EU threat may have helped positively influence the result.
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4/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Simon Willison : ExpanDrive - ExpanDrive. Looks like this SFTP mounting application for OS X fixes the problems I’ve had with sshfs (which tends to freeze things up if you lose your network connection while using it).
dbow : Mac app: ExpanDrive - Details about a Mac app that mounts any SFTP server as a Finder volume. Gruber provides more info about the app than what's available on the developer's site.
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4/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, dead at 69 - a good game can change the world
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4/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : MegaPhone, phone-controlled multiplayer gaming - tried an early version at Foo, had a blast [via]
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4/03/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : 10 Tips to Change Yourself From a Dedicated Couch-Potato to a Gym Enthusiast | LifeRemix Blog - "These ten strategies helped me stick to my routine"
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4/03/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Gordon Luk on IE8 and how people perceive big companies - decisions aren't made by a giant golem named Microsoft, but by the interactions of thousands of individuals
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4/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : BSG Last Supper - The question is, what painting is this in imitation of? It's not any of the well known Last Suppers.
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4/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Dear Mozilla Corporation, - totally charming fan mail
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4/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : BSG teaser - Annoying UI, but amusing teasers for the new season
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4/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
adamrg : An early look at how Clinton deals with crisis - Rodham, records show, questioned the sixth grader's honesty and claimed she had made false accusations in the past. She implied that the girl often fantasized and sought out "older men" like Taylor, according to a July 1975 affidavit...
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4/03/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Neil Gaiman on giving work away for free - he responds to an independent bookseller arguing that it cuts them out of the process [via]
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4/03/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Keyboard shortcuts for Google Reader - ∞
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4/03/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Nubrella - Not sure if this screams “brilliant” or “dork.” ∞
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4/03/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists - David Friedman asked seven of the most popular artists about their other work
cobra libre : The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists - Profiles of seven courtroom sketch artists, with examples of their extracurricular work. [via] #
philgyford : Ironic Sans: The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists - What the people who do the drawings of court proceedings draw/paint when not in court. I like Patrick Flynn's court work there. (via Drawn!)
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4/03/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Evolution: Plants Rapidly Evolve New Reproductive Systems in Cities - where are the "but it's just a theory" commenters?
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4/03/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : ALA #254: Creativity, Design Details - ALA #254: On Creativity by Andy Rutledge, and Design is in the Details by Naz Hamid. Amen to "Beautiful Mistakes.” All too familiar (and welcome!).
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4/03/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Microsoft reverses version targeting default. - I'll believe it when I see it.
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4/03/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Pong Table - "This table re-creates the beloved classic game Pong, introduced by Atari in 1972. The tabletop has 2,400 LEDs and two track pads embedded in its surface, turning the white Corian into a digital gaming board."
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4/03/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : iPhone guitar and piano hacks - iPhone guitar and piano hacks.
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4/03/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Theremin, a bizarre musical instrument worth knowing - I've long contemplated penning an article titled, "Bizarre musical instruments worth knowing." One of these is the theremin, an early electronic instrument whose "alien-like" sounds were popularized in sci-fi movies. A recent TED talk features Pamelia Kur
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Rod Begbie : John Resig - Unbreaking the Web - The real reason for Microsoft's switch to web standards in IE8? John thinks he's found it. #
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4/03/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Community Guy, Jake McKee - The agency model is now officially broken - Agencies could be broken given the shoddy advice they've given on social media. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: jake mckee, walmart, blogging, agencies
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4/03/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV - Music - New York Times - Since being released from its major-label recording contract last year, Nine Inch Nails has joined the growing ranks of prominent artists who are navigating the digital wilderness on their own. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | G
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4/03/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
adamrg : Learning is Change. » Blog Archive » The Man with a Plan. - Our schools have become museums... filled with artifacts of antiquated systems.
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deusx : The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times - "Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops’ cooking pots and burned their ships."
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4/03/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : 80s1337ness.jpg (JPEG Image, 584x576 pixels)
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4/03/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Dockdrop - Share files fast - "Drag any file or folder you want to share onto the Dockdrop dock icon then choose how you want to send it."
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4/03/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Two data streams for a happy website - Two data streams for a happy website. Useful architectural concept for scaling: keep user-specific and generic data separate from the start, in recognition of their different caching and partitioning constraints.
deusx : Gojko Adzic » Two data streams for a happy website - "One of the most important architectural decisions that must be done early on in a scalable web site project is splitting the data flow into two streams: one that is user specific and one that is generic."
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Simon Willison : The real reason Google's clicks are flat - The real reason Google’s clicks are flat. Rich Skrenta explains that Google’s recent reduction of the clicable area in Adsense ads, while reducing click-throughs by 60%, will eventually balance out due to non-accidental click-throughs being worth mo
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4/03/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Summer of Code: Mentoring Organization Applications Are Open! - Google Summer of Code: Mentoring Organization Applications Are Open!: I bet we could find some students to hack on Hadoop... :-)
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4/03/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Pinnacle Video Transfer - Pinnacle Video Transfer: these apparently work quite well... hmm. might come in handy
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4/03/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : How to Change the World: Airlegance
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4/03/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Jay Barnes » “Maybe the dog just isn’t into you?” - "collection"
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4/03/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Giving into community pressure | Hi, I’m Colin Devroe. - good questions about using platforms/services you might not really like. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: community, twitter, pownce, popularity
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4/03/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : The Openid avatar system | Openvatar - Openid avatar system. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, avatar
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4/03/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo - I am a web producer based in Tokyo. This site is a collection of my blog musings, webcam ramblings and misc photos about life as a designer, developer and marketer of products for the web. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give
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4/03/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | Marc Hedlund: Debugging Hacks, What They Never Taught You About Solving Hard Bugs - "There’s no doubt that debugging is a critical skill for anyone who codes."
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4/03/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
jonhicks : IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 - They listened and they changed! The one stumbling block with IE's meta idea is solved. Does this mean that when IE9 comes out you need to specify that? Or will the latest version always be the default?
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4/03/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : abcde: Command Line Music CD Ripping for Linux
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4/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft/Yahoo: Tracking the Deal "Spread" - Microsoft/Yahoo: Tracking the Deal "Spread": I was thinking about this myself just the other day...
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4/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Going Unwired: Week #1 - Going Unwired: Week #1: "Did you know that pages from a book don’t have back-lit screens, so you have to sit next to a bright light? Yeah, I didn’t either." Ernie should give up this software crap and just become a comedian...
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4/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud - Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud: well that pretty much kicks ass... will it run Hadoop? :-)
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4/03/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Child Discovered In Word Code. - "Sources were unable to say how he got in there or whose child he might be, but he apparently had been living in the code in a feral state for a number of years."
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4/03/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour - "Just now the IE team announced that it's reversing its policy on the default behaviour of IE8, which shows that it has been paying close attention to the discussion of its versioning proposal. I admit that I hadn't expected this reversal, but I welc
wearehugh : QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour - when MS screws the web, they're AWESOME. when MS changes their mind about which way they're going to screw the web, they're AWESOME. i think i see the pattern.
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4/03/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : Waxy.org: Greetings from 1993!
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