12/05/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme - amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme
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12/05/2008 @ 21:03 GMT
deusx : Becuase it's just the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament.
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12/05/2008 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : FoodFeed - What are you eating? - "Post your updates at the format: @having eggs and bacon"
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12/05/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Domestic sell all kinds of weird and awesome vynil stickers and stuff to put on walls - I think we're going to try and get some of these for the Brickhouse office to design it up a bit. The more it feels like a teenager's bedroom, the more creative we'll be.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:11 GMT
Greg Storey : Ghostly Swim. - Adult Swim, you give so much and expect so little.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : benjamingolub.com » How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments - "RSSmeme now has dynamically generated slide down Disqus comments for every story"
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12/05/2008 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Disqus | Developers - "Disqus provides an Application Programming Interface (API) for users to interact with the Disqus backend."
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12/05/2008 @ 20:07 GMT
deusx : Arcanum Walkthrough: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - If only I could get this running with VMWare. Seems to hate my mouse under OS X.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:06 GMT
philgyford : Russell davies: copy and paste - Very nice and easily-created rapid slideshow of a month's worth of photos. Fab idea.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:05 GMT
philgyford : Widgetfinger - Simple Content Management for Simple Websites - Looks like an awesome thing that would be great for a huge percentage of small business websites. I was a thrown by being asked for 'Company Name' first off when creating an account though. (via Infovore)
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12/05/2008 @ 20:04 GMT
philgyford : Brent Black Panama Hats - Photo Tour: How a Panama Hat is Made - Fascinating multi-page photo essay. Quite a process.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:03 GMT
philgyford : Film Archive - FourDocs - Listen to Britain - Nice short film of images and sounds from wartime Britain (if you sit through the introduction from the Canadian). Terence Davies mentions it in the current 'Sight & Sound'.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:02 GMT
philgyford : Lefora Free Forum Hosting - Hosted forums. New, so I assume it'll improve; the forums themselves are less than beautiful at the moment.
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12/05/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Airship Ventures - Airship Ventures. New startup providing tours of Silicon Valley in a frickin’ Zeppelin. Strangely enough I’ve been complaining about the lack of Zeppelins over Silicon Valley for several years. Really. [via]
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12/05/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
joshua : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - nice -- yahoo opens the Where On Earth dataset. what's with the goofy url syntax tho?
Andy Baio : Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world - I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features
Simon Willison : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available a
nelson : Free geocoding - Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day
bmilleare : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN
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12/05/2008 @ 19:07 GMT
nelson : sitemaps robots.txt - I had no idea there was a simple way to tell search engines about your sitemaps
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12/05/2008 @ 19:05 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Treadmill Kittens [video] - Treadmill Kittens [video]: most excellent
nelson : Treadmill Kittens - aw, cute kitties!
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12/05/2008 @ 19:04 GMT
Andy Baio : First-person video of the China 7.7 earthquake - some original coverage on Flickr, too
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12/05/2008 @ 19:03 GMT
nelson : ph34t the g00gl3 - Italians having none of being filmed on the street
Andy Baio : Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome - they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them
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12/05/2008 @ 19:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers - most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective
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12/05/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Andy Baio : PMOG comes out of beta - Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing [via]
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12/05/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Things Younger Than John McCain - I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via]
adamrg : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate
Rod Begbie : Things younger than John McCain - The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama's parents are younger than John McCain. [via] #
jcgregorio : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - List includes the Golden Gate Bridge.
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12/05/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Opposites Attract ’08 at the New York Art Directors Club - New speaker series from UnderConsideration LLC.
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12/05/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
mmb : RMS by g.ottaviano @ Flickr - by g.ottaviano via programming: RMS at PyConDue [via]
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12/05/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Earthquake measuring 7.8 hits central China. - Speaking of...whatever happened to China's earthquake prediction program?
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12/05/2008 @ 09:04 GMT
Greg Storey : Trutz, St. Moritz. - Ryan, you should go here.
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12/05/2008 @ 09:04 GMT
factoryjoe : Doodle - Easy scheduling! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: calendar, scheduling, shreyas, planning, productivity
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Python with a modular IDE (Vim) - Python with a modular IDE (Vim). Great tips—I’d use these if I wasn’t still scarred from the time vim encrypted my file instead of saving it because I had caps lock on by mistake.
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Efficient Boolean value storage for Innodb Tables - Efficient Boolean value storage for Innodb Tables: interesting... using BIT() vs. CHAR(0) for boolean stoargae
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! pimping malware from banner ads - Yahoo! pimping malware from banner ads: "The fundamental problem is that the browser's security model failed to anticipate that there are multiple interests involved in a web application."
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Configuring Fonts in Ubuntu Linux - Configuring Fonts in Ubuntu Linux: this guy really likes his Tahoma
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Debugging rules - Debugging rules: simple rules to follow... now where's the video?
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Portland drivers in the snow [video] - Portland drivers in the snow [video]: this one is truly a classic
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : RegToy - RegToy: "RegToy is a collection of useful utilities : tweaking, window manager, shell context menu, registry cleaner, file renamer, screen capture, memory cleaner , disk cleaner , much more."
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : GMail advanced search operators - GMail advanced search operators: I always forget about some of these...
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What is up with eBay employees? - What is up with eBay employees?: "Is life at eBay that slow & boring that you have to look for outside work? Or do they not pay enough? Inquiring minds want to know"
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why My Two vCPU VM is Slow - Why My Two vCPU VM is Slow: interesting...
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Testing InnoDB “Barracuda” format with compression - Testing InnoDB “Barracuda” format with compression: Vadim runs some InnoDB tests and shows some promising results...
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12/05/2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The book that is indirectly responsible for me getting my new job - The book that is indirectly responsible for me getting my new job: "Which raises an interesting question: Is reading this book cheating? Is it the equivalent of just reading the answer key before an exam?"
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12/05/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr: Items tagged with thehairofchristianheilmann - Flickr: Items tagged with thehairofchristianheilmann: now that's just damned funny!
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12/05/2008 @ 08:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Latenitesoft: Mac, iPhone and iPod Touch Applications: Dark Xslimmer's Toolbar - Description of how the Xslimmer dark toolbar came to be! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: xslimmer, open source, skin, black, custom skin
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12/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr Tools on Flickrbits - Flickr Tools on Flickrbits: "The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications"
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12/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Roller Derby - Roller Derby: "There is something entertaining about a woman in her 40's checking an even older woman in her 50's and flinging her over the rails." Heh...
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12/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mylvmbackup - mylvmbackup: mylvmbackup is a tool for quickly creating backups of MySQL a server's data files using LVM on linux
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12/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mysql-heap-dynamic-rows - mysql-heap-dynamic-rows: some folks at ebay made a heap table that uses dynamic rows rather than fixed... cool.
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12/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Hillary Can Still Win [video] - How Hillary Can Still Win [video]: heh... that's pretty amusing. I like that they use a phone booth for time travel
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12/05/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
mmb : Phun - 2D physics sandbox by ernerfeldt @ YouTube - via Phun Wiki: News [via]
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12/05/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
deusx : Session variables without cookies - "The beauty of window.name is that the value survives between page loads (and even between domains) and that it can hold a very long name."
Simon Willison : Session variables without cookies - Session variables without cookies. Brilliant but terrifying hack—you can store up to 2 MB of data in window.name and it persists between multiple pages, even across domains. Doesn’t work with new tabs though, and storing JSON in it and eval()ing it
bmilleare : Session variables without cookies - This is an interesting, if slightly scary, prospect.
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12/05/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Conservatives Supporting Shield Law for the Press - New York Times - Opposed by Bush, of course.
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12/05/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
factoryjoe : The password that calls you: CallVerfID | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - "On Monday, JanRain, which makes the clever multi-service OpenID login box, OpenID Selector, is expected to announce a security improvement for its own MyOpenID service. The new system, CallVerifID, uses your mobile phone to perform an e
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12/05/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
jcgregorio : FactCheckED.org - Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy
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