7/07/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Web Worker Daily » Archive Design Patterns for Coworking « - "Recently a member of the global coworking mailing list, Joseph Holsten) recently created what’s essentially a recipe book of ‘how to’ guides for those seeking to setup a coworking community, coworking space or simply better operat
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7/07/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Vaga | Ten by Twenty ™ - This set of 60, semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) ready to use and available for free download. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: icons, free icons, 16x16
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7/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : Whiz Kids (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The show was about the adventures of a group of teenagers who worked as amateur computer experts and detectives. The series was inspired by the movie WarGames."
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7/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Commodore 64 LAN party - "The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
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7/07/2008 @ 22:02 GMT
Greg Storey : First Timer. - Redirect members to a special landing page the first time they log in to Expression Engine.
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7/07/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : R. Lee Ermey on VB.NET - it's like boot camp that never ends [via]
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7/07/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wii-style controls for the Commodore 64 - also, the first C64 LAN party was held last weekend
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7/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
mmb : YouTube - BeKindMovie’s Channel - YouTube - BeKindMovie’s Channel
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7/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
mmb : Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code - Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
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7/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Kellan : Pahlka Dot: A couple of things about my Prius - Apropos of nothing other then I laughing out loud several times while reading it. #
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7/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
mmb : Mini vMac DS by Synaesthesia @ Flickr - by Synaesthesia via deusx’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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7/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : Flickr Find: Macintosh on Nintendo DS - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - "While browsing Flickr this afternoon, we came across a shot of a Nintendo DS running Macintosh System 6 in emulation on reader Ken Fager's Flickr stream."
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7/07/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Growing the ORG community - Growing the ORG community. The Open Rights Group want a fiver a month from 750 new people to support their excellent work fighting for digital civil liberties in the UK political arena. Going by their past performance this is a very worthwhile investmen
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7/07/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Barbecued Pulled Pork Sandwiches - Barbecued Pulled Pork Sandwiches: here's one I'd like to try making this summer
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7/07/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
joshua : Thumber: A Movie Thumbnailer - snapshot of movies at one-second intervals arranged into an image
Andy Baio : Thumber, OS X app for making one-second movie mosaics - in the style of Brendan Dawes' Cinema Redux; see also: a similar technique using averaging [via]
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mmb : McKenzie -11yo Girl Sets New Record for Field Stripping AR15 by gixxerguy811 @ YouTube - via Cynical-C Blog - » 11 Year Old Girl Field Stripping an AR15 [via]
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mmb : dinosaur jr raisans by uhhhhhhh28 @ YouTube - via kung fu grippe [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : USA National Gas Temperature Map - USA National Gas Temperature Map: oh, "why it's good to live in Texas..."
nelson : Gas price map - Nice heatmap visualization
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Andy Baio : Adrian Holovaty duets with himself on gypsy-jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 theme - the most talented guitarist-programmer-journalist I know
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7/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
joshua : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - a zoomabe zui for amazon
Andy Baio : Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon - Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves [via]
Rod Begbie : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers. [via] #
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7/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Lee Byron's bubbly infographic in the New York Times - bubbles try to push themselves out when clicked
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7/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rabble on the gentrification of geek news communities - I hadn't thought of it in those terms before
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7/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Linkorama : 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights - The governmental role that companies play online is taking on greater importance as their services — from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video — become more central to public discourse around the world. It's a fallout of the Int
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7/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : It is easy to miss the point of Identi.ca : Socialwrite.com - "What we need is for Microblogging to shift from being a closed world owned by one company to an open, standards based medium that does not risk dying if a single entity dies, either technically or financially."
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7/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : "I'm not here to make friends." - a reality TV supercut
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7/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Segagaga, the Sega game about Sega from 2001 - very meta, the endgame pits you against retro consoles; see also: Home Computer Wars [via]
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7/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : California's Continuing Fires - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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7/07/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : How to save money? Steal a hybrid car. - Get more OPEC busting wisdom from the writers at The Morning News.
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Greg Storey : Matterhorn evacuation. - For Mena, though she may not want to see the insides of the Matterhorn.
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Greg Storey : Cold Storage. - No Gravity Hammer?! Dammit.
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7/07/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
43folders : Integrating CBT and mindfulness | Ask Metafilter - "Can these two practical philosophies be integrated into a systematic approach to the world, and to the everyday problems we confront as we go about our lives?"
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deusx : Why FriendFeed is growing faster than Twitter (Scripting News) - "It's all part of one cosmos (not a mere sphere), and there will come a day (I hope) when it all is unified, otherwise we're forever going to be chasing our news from place to place as it gets replicated in ever more awkward ways."
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7/07/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : OpenTech 2008 "Impossibox" presentation - OpenTech 2008 “Impossibox” presentation. One of my favourite Open Tech sessions—Tom Loosemore describes the “Impossibox”, a cloud of PVRs collaborating to transcode and share “all decent UK TV for a year” via BitTorrent.
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Simon Willison : Django Unit Tests and Transactions - Django Unit Tests and Transactions. If you’re using a transactional database engine (MySQL with InnoDB, Postgres or SQLite) you can speed things up by running each of your unit tests inside a transaction and rolling back in tearDown().
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Simon Willison : 3 and 1/2 minutes to sort a Terabyte, and a look at Hadoop's code structure - 3 and 1/2 minutes to sort a Terabyte, and a look at Hadoop’s code structure. Bill de hÓra uses some clever static analysis tools to explore Hadoop’s 100,000+ lines of code.
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wearehugh : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - A List of Companies Working Hard to Screw Up My Web Experience
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7/07/2008 @ 16:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Former Phone Chief Says Spy Agency Sought Surveillance Help Before 9/11 - New York Times - The phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, the former head of the company cont
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mmb : Photo_07.jpg by Tybstar @ Flickr - by Tybstar via Planet Emacsen [via]
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mmb : the empty fair by a Dan of action @ Flickr - by a Dan of action
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7/07/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Up Ship!: New Branding - Up Ship!: New Branding. I hadn’t realised the Airpship Ventures Zeppelin (en route to San Francisco) is going to be used for the Stella Artois Star Over London promotion—they’ve just changed the livery.
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factoryjoe : Technology Review: Who Owns Your Friends? - "The incident brought to a head a debate that had been raging for months behind the scenes at social-networking sites: who controls the data users post on their profiles? Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smar
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7/07/2008 @ 11:01 GMT
factoryjoe : MUSEO :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris - A beautiful, free font. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fonts, free font, typography
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factoryjoe : Diavlo :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris - Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fonts, free font, typography
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7/07/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Penguin Design Award - Judging covers for “On the Road” .
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Andy Baio : Pixar and Courtney, the girl who cried at Wall-E - wonderful first-person anecdote about Pixar in a long politicized thread [via]
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7/07/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Anarchogeek: Good Bye To The Purple Mothership: Leaving Yahoo - "Working with, or rather for Yahoo, was not so great. It was a constant painful struggle"
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7/07/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Why are geeks often atheist? | Shuzak.com - "It might make sense to think that many such geeks simply find something as simple as a creator an overly simplistic explanation for something so elegant."
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Linkorama : Google, Zen Master of the Market - The direct effects, he says, include software document formats and technology standards that are owned by one company and that are incompatible with a rival’s technology. The indirect effects, he adds, include large numbers of users, the ability to lear
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7/07/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
Andy Baio : BlockOn, procedural freeware game by Cactus - like Crayon Physics in a chiptune platformer
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7/07/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion - documentary about animatronics nuts keeping Showbiz Pizza nostalgia alive
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7/07/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Oh No My Money - use the savings to pay off the credit card debt, Eric
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7/07/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : John McCain on user interface design - made me laugh [via]
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7/07/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Showbiz Pizza's Robot Band in MGMT's Electric Feel video - this $1200 winning bid by the band was money well spent
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7/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Feed Store :: Fail Whale - "We love Twitter. We even love it when it’s down. Twitter gives you lots of opportunities to love it. "This shirt will ship mid-July. We’ll notify you via Twitter, unless it’s down. Yeah… just come back here and check. "…and
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7/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : TweetDeck - TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable b
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7/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Linkorama : The disruptive potential of GPS on the iPhone 3G - Either way, GPS makers will no doubt be coming to the same realization that those selling MP3 players are now experiencing, and that PDA makers have been already been forced to deal with. Convergence is a bitch.
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7/07/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu - 300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu: lots of juicy fonts
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7/07/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
Greg Storey : "I'll be working on my movie script all weekend..." - Drew, is this how guys are in Toronto?
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7/07/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
43folders : How can I stop caring what other people think or might think about me? | Ask Metafilter - "I'm sick of worrying about what other people (strangers and acquaintances alike) might think about me. It's exhausting." via http://www.metafilter.com/favorites/1
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7/07/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : gladwell dot com - smaller - the birth and growth of the modern diaper
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