10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Max Huber Museum - On the list for whenever I visit Switzerland. Via Aisle One. [via]
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it finds you” - Truer words…
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed - The authentication cluster was overloaded, and improperly monitored. Complex systems are like that, never know where the problems will arise. Good clear communication, but it should have been on the AWS blog.
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : kewlchops: Spruiking, Breadcrumbs & Marching. - George on the emergent cultural phenomena of awards/achievements/bravos/celebrations in the Flickr community. Someone should write a PhD.
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Kellan : Clay Shirky talks about “Here Comes Everybody” - “a society which has an Internet is a different kind of society then a society that doesn’t. In the same way that society that has a printing press is a different kind of society then a that doesn’t.”
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Kellan : Wikihistory - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : “Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 through 1959…” - Found wikinear [via]
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : Exordium Draconis - The fiefs are falling in the stream, the River flows away - “Turns out feudalism was a complete flight of fancy on the part of 16th and 17th century historians looking at a 12th century legal text that was more theoretical than descriptive.” - I adore history.
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : Your Email Password: A True Horror Story About Why We Need Authentication Standards - ReadWriteWeb - OAuth FTW
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10/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Kellan : Google Contacts Data API - Yay! You no longer need an NDA to use this. Shame it doesn’t support arbitrary keys associated with a user. Suppose you could always abuse the notes field.
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Kellan : Textism: Alright. - The world is better for having Dean Allen in it. I missed Textism.
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Andy Baio : RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default - or: why my links were still pointing to Waxy.org until this morning; sorry!
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10/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Hogger goes to Undercity. - That takes a lot of patience.
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10/04/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
philgyford : Purgatory Creek - For the "Digital Piano Shootout" -- MP3s of dozens of different digital pianos for comparison.
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10/04/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
philgyford : Gumbaby - Collecting comments left on vaguely-related websites by people thinking they're contacting a famous person. I still occasionally get comments left by people talking to Jamie Oliver.
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10/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
joshua : Protecting Journalistic Integrity Algorithmically - c implementation of the copymove algorithm
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10/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Startups and acquisition - Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
deusx : A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - "But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
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nelson : San Angelo, TX - Nice colour commentary. I spent a night in San Angelo, great little town.
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nelson : Curry and mole are persian - Interesting story of how Mexican and Indian cuisine was influenced by the spread of
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philgyford : HistoryShots Information Graphics - Prints - Nice posters of timelines and similar infographics, along the lines of that one of Napoleon's Russian campaign. Mostly American topics. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash - If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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Andy Baio : No Photos on Flickr! - perfect response to the crybabies, with confused comments from some of them
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10/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Accessible Data Visualization - ALA: Accessible Data Visualization. Great tutorial by Wilson Miner on creating charts and sparklines that are not only aesthetic but accessible too.
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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10/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Walther NightHawk Air Pistol - Walther NightHawk Air Pistol. "Honey, um, birthday next month, mine, just thought I'd..."
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10/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Twisted Intellect - Twisted Intellect. Yup, it's very well-designed.
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10/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : It’s gonna be called Sifter - Garrett Dimon’s bug and issue tracker gets an identity. I can’t wait for this to launch.
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10/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Can singing death metal ruin your voice? - bizarre endoscope footage of people singing, screaming, grunting, and talking like Barry White
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10/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
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10/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Black & Blue, Quicktime 1.0 sample video from 1992 - the Quicktime development team gets silly, in a decision that still haunts them 15 years later
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10/04/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
joshua : where to find open data on the web
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10/04/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Andy redesigns. - Fits like a glove—the Vectrex never looked better.
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10/04/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Coworking: Solo But Not Alone - "But being tied to the house isn't the antidote for being tied to the office, which is why coworking – working together, but separately – is gaining momentum in Ann Arbor and around the world."
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10/04/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Pitches the Lazy Developer - Yahoo Pitches the Lazy Developer: '...give them tools, share your expertise, build a community, let them have fun," Zawodny said...''
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10/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
veen : adaptive path » blog » Starting the CEO Search - "we’re announcing today that we’re on the lookout for a CEO to add to our executive team."
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10/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : Card Carrying Liberal - Imagine our world without a Bill of Rights, free speech, secular government, the end of slavery, trial by jury, child labor laws, public education, women's right to vote, social security, Medicare, the Peace Corps, civil rights, fair economic trade, marri
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10/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Red Sox World Series Ring Raffle - Your chance to win an ugly-ass bit of bling, and a $7000 tax bill. Um.. thanks? #
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10/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
jonhicks : pe8er.net: tangled graphic design
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10/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : nihilogic: Super Mario in 14kB Javascript - "Here's an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file."
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10/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs - there are lots of issues all tangled up together here, but I'm most interested (selfishly, yes) in how my students feel about the core texting-in-class issue.
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10/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo to Test Google Ads As It Mulls Broader Deal - Yahoo to Test Google Ads As It Mulls Broader Deal: It's about fucking time...
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