17/06/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
jonhicks : Flickr: little girl ghosts - Creepy, but amazing and atmospheric artwork
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deusx : Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Quick note on Firefox 3 downloads - "Thanks to overwhelming demand we’ve passed through 14,000 downloads a minute! This will put us well into the tens of millions of downloads in a 24 hour period if we can sustain it."
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Khoi Vinh : Friday is Take Your Dog To Work Day
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Cameron Moll : JSM: A New Day - Jason Santa Maria flips the switch on his new design. Be sure to read in full the post on the home page. Your experience will likely be similar to mine: "This is nice" when you first visit, and then after reading the post and understanding the approach, "
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nelson : LHOOQ - I never knew Duchamp's Mona Lisa thing had a naughty french pun in the title
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Andy Baio : Alex Wright on Paul Otlet and his Mundaneum proto-web - I adored Alex's talk at SXSW; the video is great
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factoryjoe : Anivers :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris - exljbris is Jos Buivenga's Free Quality Font Foundry. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: font, type
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mmb : FeedBooks: News - FeedBooks: News via Popular pages on del.icio.us [via]
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Simon Willison : New foundation for Django - New foundation for Django. Django now has its own nonprofit software foundation (courtesy of a bunch of tough paperwork by Jacob Kaplan-Moss), and fittingly the Lawrence-Journal World get the exclusive.
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wearehugh : About Carl | outside-in-thinking - the vice president of worldwide development for IBM’s Enterprise Content Management business runs (a vulnerable version of) Wordpress with the default theme
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Andy Baio : Teach the Controversy t-shirts - their Science! shirts are all great, too
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17/06/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Spore Creature Creator trial now available for PC/Mac - there's also an awkward, half-broken Flash site to vote on celebrity Spore creations
mmb : Trial - Trial via If you can’t wait to get your hands on Will Wright’s… (kottke.org) [via]
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Khoi Vinh : Refinery29: Maria Schneider in Antonioni’s “The Passenger” - A shallow but nevertheless deserved appreciation for the actress’ indelible turn in one of Antonioni’s best.
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Linkorama : Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT? - Haven’t we heard this before? Anyone else suffering from Millennial overload? Repeat after me–you can’t stereotype a generation.
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deusx : CrazyBlog! » Blog Archive » Firefox Download Day i Wine 1.0! - using my widget, and with much better styling!
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wearehugh : Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Sierpinski Cookies
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Greg Storey : Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping. - "Wireframes: square peg, round hole."
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Greg Storey : Why you should download Firefox right now. - After today, no one should have to suffer from using IE. No one.
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jcgregorio : ‘Goodnight Bush’ - Bashing the President, With Nods to a Classic - NYTimes.com - Must add to the Amazon wish list.
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mmb : Screen Grab: Woz hacks Kathy Griffin’s iPhone… on TV - Engadget - Screen Grab: Woz hacks Kathy Griffin’s iPhone… on TV - Engadget via popurls® | popular urls to the latest web buzz [via]
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mmb : Take_a_seat by InfoJelte @ YouTube - via URLs seen by clickolinko [via]
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mmb : Easter Egg: Get a Ninja in Your Google Reader - Easter Egg: Get a Ninja in Your Google Reader
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mmb : RoboGames 2008 by Laughing Squid @ Flickr - by Laughing Squid via MAKE: Blog: MAKE @ Robogames 2008 [via]
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mmb : wtop - Google Code - wtop - Google Code via programming: wtop: "top" for Apache, plus powerful log grepping [via]
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mmb : Creative Destruction: Own a piece of the crypto wars - Creative Destruction: Own a piece of the crypto wars via Cryptome [via]
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mmb : outside.in - Radar Preview - outside.in - Radar Preview via Radar from Outside.in: online tool tells you what’s going on around you in the real world - Boing Boing [via]
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wearehugh : Upper Peninsula War - be sure to check out the talk page too!
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Greg Storey : No McCain isn't like Bush. - Wait, are we talking about '02, '06 or '08 McCain?
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Greg Storey : Resistance 2 is coming along nicely. - I hope the multiplayer is going to be as hot as it looks.
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Richard Rutter : Beautiful Brochures and Booklets - My favourite Smashing Mag article thus far. Great designs and inspiration herein.
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Richard Rutter : Adding richness to activity streams - Useful thinking form the man Messina.
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Simon Willison : How not to apply for a job - How not to apply for a job. Quite reasonably, 37signals care if job applicants get their wordmark right. Having worked for Yahoo! I know how important that ! is. What really winds me up is companies that aren’t consistent with name capitalisation acro
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Andy Baio : Quirks, the 1980 board-game equivalent of Spore - see also: Evo, Animality, and other games not to play with Creationists
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Andy Baio : Assassin's Creed in real-life - the lead character's very touchy-feely with strangers [via]
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17/06/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The New Republic Movie Review: "The Happening" - "This film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts rather than review it." [via] #
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17/06/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Do not go and see Signs. It is a bad, bad movie. - From 2002: Why I will never see an M. Night Shyamalan movie again, and am completely unsurprised at the vitriol being unpoured on The Happening. #
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Greg Storey : "This is the chance to redefine the look and feel of 37signals." - Just hire Airbag already.
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veen : Four Firsts for Feeds - massless.org - Wetherall brain-dumps on Reader lessons.
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Greg Storey : The monkeys ain't got nothing on me. - Gruber, if this doesn't merit a comment I don't know what will.
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Greg Storey : Bottle Shock. - Batman can suck it, this is going to be the movie of the summer.
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deusx : How Book Authors Can Promote Their Work with Social Media - "As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authors’ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."
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deusx : My New Role at Wiley - "I will be taking a new position at Wiley, serving as the Associate Publisher of Technology for Wiley’s EMEA Group beginning July 1. I will be based in the US, but will have an office at our UK division located in Chichester to which I will trave
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17/06/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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17/06/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Moving On (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "The other big problem is that San Francisco is fairly shallow. When I go to coffee shops or restaurants I can't avoid people talking about load balancers or databases. The conversations are boring and obsessed with technical trivia, or worse, busine
Jeremy Zawodny : Moving On - Moving On: "San Francisco is filled with distractions. There are always crews tearing up the street, trains that are delayed, buses that have broken down, homeless people begging, friends having parties, and so on."
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17/06/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : Surveyor SRV-1 Blackfin Camera
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joshua : YARB 1.0 (Yet Another Robotic Blimp) - man, i want to build a robot
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joshua : The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.
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17/06/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
factoryjoe : At the Forge - Integrating OpenID - Integrate OpenID into any Rails application, using off-the-shelf libraries and a bit of custom code. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, ruby
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nelson : Deletionist morons - Tim Bray goes righteous. Why don't the deletionist nerds just invent a metadata system that lets them tag stuff as irrelevant?
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deusx : massless.org - Four Firsts for Feeds - "For the last few years or so, I've been fortunate enough to have my day job involve thinking critically about reading feeds. As a result, I've been musing about first principles."
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Simon Willison : PEP 372 - Adding an ordered dictionary to collections - PEP 372—Adding an ordered dictionary to collections. Yes please!
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17/06/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
joshua : Unofficial Spec for Immersion TouchSense PR-1000 Haptic Encoder - I don't know what I'd do with this but now I want one.
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nelson : Spore megathread - Good ol' something awful plays with the new creature tool from Spore. Lots of cartoon penises with sharp teeth
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nelson : Asset allocation - Interesting disclosure from Leonard Lin about how he's invested. Sensible design.
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cobra libre : J.M. Coetzee on Robert Walser #
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deusx : 0xDECAFBAD » Firefox 3 Download Day Mega Widget - "Oh, and rumor has it that this widget will switch to reporting on downloads, rather than pledges, once the main event has begun."
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deusx : Social Media Monitoring Tools for PR Professionals – Radian6 - "Millions of blog posts. Viral videos. Reviews in forums. Sharing of photos. Status updates via microblogging. All social media conversations, all happening online right now and affecting brands, reputations, sales, you name it. "
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deusx : Introducing Parchment at Toolness - "The more I thought about it, the more the web actually seemed like an ideal place for interactive fiction to be experienced, rather than merely a more convenient one. "
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deusx : About Flaxo - "Flaxo is a Flash-based interpreter for Interactive Fiction (IF) games compiled for Infocom's Z-Machine, versions 1-8 (except version 6)."
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