16/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : HOWTO Bake a killer Yoda cake - Boing Boing - "When Star Wars artist Chris Trevas told us his girlfriend and foodie blogger Julie Foxworthy baked him a one-of-a-kind Yoda birthday cake, I was super-impressed!"
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16/04/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Insomniac - This is apparently what happens when Photoshop and I stay up far too late together. Weep for me. ∞
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16/04/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : MicroRevie.ws ß - A twitter mashup of mini-reviews! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, hreview, twitter
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16/04/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills - can't wait to add "wiki markup" to this list
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16/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Greg Storey : The stupidest guy on Earth speaks out. - Neomoron.
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16/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Networks don't have people. People have networks. - The right point of integration is around the individual. Each of us is the center of our own universe.
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16/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Seed: Suspending Life - "Some lucky evolutionary accident ensured the mammals' safety through a deep sleep, and that accident may still be dormant within us. That which allowed our ancestors to survive millions of years ago might also be a means of our survival now."
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16/04/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Tailgate Legend [video] - A Tailgate Legend [video]: nice...
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16/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Speak Up: Ethan Bodnar, Underage Designer?
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16/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Designers’ Toolbox: OS Form Elements - Bookmarking this because I always. Forget. The URL. (Via Jason.) ∞ [via]
Richard Rutter : Designers Toolbox: OS Form Elements - Very very handy.
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16/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Metafilter comment relays a conversation about the origins of man with a 5-year-old - some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver
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Khoi Vinh : Art Directors Club: Young Guns 6 Now Open for Entries - “Entrants must be 30 years of age or younger and must have been working professionally for at least 2 years (both full-time and freelance work qualify). Entrants can submit both professional and personal, unpublished work. Fifty new ADC Youn
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16/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Simpsons couch gags - Many simpsons intros spliced together into a 5 minute reel
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16/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Commentary: An 'average' American will never be president - CNN.com - "The narrative about our presidential candidates being just regular folks is a tired myth that gets repeated each and every day. And their efforts to show that they are "just like us" are really pathetic." Nor *should* an "averag
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Michael Arrington loves the Twitter "block" button - though I'm pretty sure the New York Times doesn't killfile people who correct them [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Defamer investigates the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, claims hoax - no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Oregon state sends cease-and-desists for republishing statutes - they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves
Greg Storey : Oregon claims copyright on public law. - Look, if you need money, start charging a sales tax everyone else.
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Alpha Twitter - dead-simple meme tracker for popular links on Twitter [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ben Heck's custom-made Apple IIgs laptop - it's like technology from a parallel world [via]
nelson : Apple IIgs laptop - Beautiful bit of hackery, nicely finished
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16/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : [x264-devel] Re: Defining video quality - "SSIM is not *the best* video/image quality metric, but it is the best that can be computed quickly."
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16/04/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Editor John Walters Buys Eye Magazine - The venerable British design magazine goes independent.
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Cameron Moll : Type City Gallery - Wow, not sure how I missed this: Veer Type City Gallery. Fun.
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16/04/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Entering Illustration - Tips on entering the field of illustration, from none other than Kevin Cornell. "Ninety-percent of illustration work out there is freelance work, and you make a living in freelancing by keeping your eye out for good opportunities, and pouncing on them. So
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16/04/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Mobile Web Is Dead. Long Live The Mobile Web. - Let it be said I really respect Russell Beattie, but I have to agree with Carlo Longino's assessment of Mowser's fallout. Any service that hangs its business model on a dying segment of the mobile market -- low-end handsets that can't render web content w
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16/04/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Departika brushes - Departika brushes are available for purchase as Photoshop brushes, Illustrator vectors, or PNGs.
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16/04/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Lamar Pen typeface - FontShop: Lamar Pen by Three Islands Press. Lovely.
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16/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Kellan : InnoDB 1.0: “Fast index creation: add or drop indexes without copying the data” - Because the write locking happens at data copy time. If this pans out looks like they’ll have managed to stay focused post-Oracle acquisition.
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16/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Electronic discovery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Electronic discovery, or "e-discovery", refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with information in electronic form. In this context, electronic form is the representation of information as binary numbers."
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16/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Grateful Palate - Bacon of the Month club
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16/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Anton Peck on responsible Photoshop use - Great read. Hauling out a few choice quotes for an upcoming presentation I’m giving. ∞
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16/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Winners of the Color Wars nerdcore rap battle - as judged by Jonathan Coulton and Doc Popular [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Heroes & Villains - portraits of artists in the graffiti, alt-comic, and underground art worlds [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Twilight of the Area Code Master - add it to the list of obsolete skills
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Twilight of the Area Code Master - "So way back in my teens, I could tell you where an area code was. All of them."
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16/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Youngme/Nowme - people reproduce their childhood photos and tagging each photo on Flickr
Milo Vermeulen : Color Wars 2008 - Youngme / Nowme - Color Wars 2008 - Youngme / Nowme [more] [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Merbman | open break-up letter to rails - Wow, just move from Rails to another Ruby web framework and the 'fans' get all bent out of shape.
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16/04/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
deusx : Nothing To Do With Arbroath: The new pygmy hedgehogs you can keep like a pet hamster - "The cute pets are a quarter of the size of a normal hedgehog and are fully domesticated and don't carry diseases or fleas. They love being handled and rarely curl up in a defensive ball."
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16/04/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
deusx : Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat - "In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment."
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16/04/2008 @ 13:01 GMT
jonhicks : MacMod.com - Powerbook to Desktop - I have an old titanium powerbook, and fancy having a go at this!
deusx : MacMod.com - Your Mac Modification HQ - Powerbook to Desktop - "It seemed a shame to throw out such a tough old machine because of a screen problem. So I decided to join the case modding fraternity."
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16/04/2008 @ 13:01 GMT
jonhicks : Perpendicular Dreams // the portfolio of Julien Pacaud
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16/04/2008 @ 12:01 GMT
factoryjoe : NASA: How CoWorking Opened Us Up on PSFK - When NASA decided that they needed to open up and collaborate more with their partners and the community in Silicon Valley, they were faced with the challenges of 'home-land' security and red-tape. Speaking at the PSFK ... on PSFK Saved
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16/04/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
joshua : Cascading - a large dataset build tool and a processing API for Hadoop.
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16/04/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
plasticbag : There's a fun argument in progress over at 37 signals about whether urgency and long working hours are ever a good thing. - People always generalise from their own experience. You get several incredibly bright, diligent self-starting friends in a room and—shock—they're naturally productive and find their own equilibrium.
Jeremy Zawodny : Urgency is poisonous - Urgency is poisonous: very true
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16/04/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
plasticbag : Jeremy Paxman's position on 'User Generated Content' should now be clear - And truth be told, he's right. The last few years have seen a decent number of fairly feeble attempts to harness the wisdom of the crowds that do indeed end up schlocky and amateurish. People will get better at it in time.
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16/04/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Only in frickin’ Boston. - ∞
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16/04/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Photorealistic 3D buildings in the new Google Earth - very impressive, includes sunlight and shading
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16/04/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Django-MMO, open-source clone of Game Neverending - is this the first open-source web-based MMO? [via]
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16/04/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : MILF Island T-Shirt - I think the NBC marketing department are onto a winner here. [via] #
deusx : 30 Rock MILF Island T-Shirt, NBC New Arrivals , NBC Universal Store - "The TGS staff is obsessing over the new ''reality'' hit 'MILF Island'. With 20 super-hot moms, 50 kids, and no rules... it's easy to see why."
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16/04/2008 @ 05:02 GMT
joshua : innodb 1.0 for mysql 5.1 - ooh... fast index creation, gimme
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16/04/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Why There Aren't More Googles - "If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."
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16/04/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Front Page :: Prevayler - "Prevayler is an object persistence library for Java. It is an implementation of the System Prevalence architectural style, in which data is kept hot in Memory with changes journaled for system recovery. "
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16/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Port Map and TCMPortMapper - Graphical interface for opening up ports on your home network so that they might be accessed remotely.
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16/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Brian McCallister - So, thought experiment. If we, as an industry, had to drop Java, the language and the virtual machine, for some reason, what could really move into its niche?
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16/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Who's in the frame for Highfield's job at the BBC? - A good list of some of the prime candidates for the job. My favourites would be Tony Ageh and Simon Nelson, both of whom I've been honoured to work with and who I have significant respect for.
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