4/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A Look at the Presidential Candidates - A Look at the Presidential Candidates. The Big Picture (the Boston Globe’s fantastic photojournalism blog) presents a fascinating collection of historical photos of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
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4/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : IntelBits - US wiretapping explained by the Snuggly Security Bear
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4/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
joshua : YouTube - PatrickBoivin's Channel - bunch of neat stop-motion animations
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4/07/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TED releases the top 10 most-viewed talks - the usual suspects, but a great primer
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4/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Improving filesort performance in MySQL - Improving filesort performance in MySQL: bad estimates can be expensive
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4/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Mac Rumors: Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control Application for iPhone and iPod Touch - Coming with the 11 Jul release of iPhone 2.0 software, the App Store and iTunes 7.7: “Use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home — a free download from the App Store”
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4/07/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : quipt - quipt. Extremely clever idea: Cache JavaScript in window.name (which persists between page views and can hold several MB of data), but use document.referrer to check that an external domain hasn’t loaded the cache with malicious code for an XSS attack [via]
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4/07/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Table Drag and Drop jQuery plugin - Table Drag and Drop jQuery plugin. Drag and drop of table rows is a special case (jQuery UI doesn’t seem to support it)—this plugin works pretty well though.
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4/07/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Graph Paper - Graph paper for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. Useful for wireframing UIs, story boarding, interaction etc..
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4/07/2008 @ 12:01 GMT
Isofarro : Circumventing Hegemony in the HTML WG - Steve Faulkner lays out a clear path to raising issues and proposals for the HTML 5 specification, and describes the process for how accessibility issues are dealt with, including an 'escalation' to the Protocols and Formats working group, a group 'consen
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4/07/2008 @ 12:01 GMT
jonhicks : The Adventures of LOLBAT - Damn you and your internet culture brand of justice!
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4/07/2008 @ 11:01 GMT
jonhicks : Supernice | Wall Graphics, Stickers, Decals | Suppliers of Blik, Threadless by Blik, Inke Animals, Jonathan Adler, and Thomas Paul - UK Blik Suppliers
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4/07/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008 - Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008. Interesting move considering BaseCamp is used for communicating with (often corporate) clients. It would be nice to see the browser stats behind the decision.
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4/07/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Show Us a Better Way - Show Us a Better Way. The UK Government’s Power of Information Taskforce are running a mashup competition (a.k.a. “ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated”) with a £20,000 prize fund and gigabytes of b
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4/07/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Independence Day: HTML5 WebSocket Liberates Comet From Hacks - Independence Day: HTML5 WebSocket Liberates Comet From Hacks. The HTML5 spec now includes WebSocket, a TCP-style persistent socket mechanism between client and server using an HTTP handshake to work around firewalls. The Orbited comet implementation pro
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4/07/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE - A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE. Opera recommend “bug detection”, a step up from object detection and browser sniffing where your JavaScript includes mini unit test style fragments of code designed to test if buggy beh
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4/07/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Running C and Python Code on The Web - Running C and Python Code on The Web. Adobe are working on a toolchain to compile C code to target the Tamarin VM in Flash. This will allow existing C code (from CPython to Quake) to execute in a safe sandbox in the browser.
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4/07/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
cobra libre : G.K. Chesterton: The Back of the World (abstract) - "The trouble for those of us who love Chesterton's writing is that the anti-Semitism is not incidental: it rises from the logic of his poetic position." #
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4/07/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : SharedSSH - Mercurial - "This page describes how to create such repositories accessible via a shared ssh account without needing to give full shell access to other people. "
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4/07/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Twitter FailWhale Fan Club - FriendFeed - The FriendFeed Fail Whale room. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: friendfeed, fail whale
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4/07/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin - Development on a Shoestring - This plugin will allow you to display on your own site the comments that people make on FriendFeed about your post. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: FriendFeed, plugin, wordpress
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mmb : Theremug by Kyle McDonald @ Vimeo - via Tea cup theremin - Hack a Day [via]
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4/07/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Converting The Repos | .: SNH Homepage :. - "Finally, I tried hgsvn, and it worked like a charm."
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4/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR - "The latter prognosis stems from users who are growing frustrated by repeat sightings of the "fail whale," the whimsical image Twitter posts when it goes off service. "Why doesn't Twitter stay up and running for more than a few hours at
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4/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Facebook | FailWhale - Welcome to the official Facebook Page of FailWhale. Get exclusive content and interact with FailWhale right from Facebook. Join Facebook to create your own Page or to start connecting with friends. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Detail
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4/07/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Laser Tattoo - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, life - BBQ PDQ Contest Entry - "As long as you don't think about the fact that the small wisp of smoke trailing the light, is actually vaporized skin, everything will be fine."
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4/07/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : fityk - free peak fitting software - fityk - free peak fitting software: "Longer version: fityk is a program for nonlinear fitting of analytical functions (especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). There are also people using it to remove the baseline from data, or to
joshua : fityk - free peak fitting software - Longer version: fityk is a program for nonlinear fitting of analytical functions (especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). There are also people using it to remove the baseline from data, or to display data only.
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