30/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
philgyford : Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience - Nice clear description of having a book published. Even if you have a publisher, you're on your own. (via Kottke)
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30/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
philgyford : Seth's Blog: Advice for authors - More advice for when you're having a book published.
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30/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
philgyford : Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes - About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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30/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
philgyford : Cool Tool: Best home chemistry lab book - Sounds like fun! In theory. In reality I never used the chemistry set I had as a kid much, so maybe not.
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30/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
philgyford : Dotcode's bookmarks tagged with "scrolling" on del.icio.us - A handy collection. For some reason (some) clients and (some) designers are the only people in the world who can't work scrollbars.
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30/07/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Don Hodges explains how to control the barrels in Donkey Kong - I've linked to his kill screen work before; someone get this guy an RSS feed! [via]
mmb : DONHODGES.COM - CONTROLLING THE BARRELS IN DONKEY KONG - DONHODGES.COM - CONTROLLING THE BARRELS IN DONKEY KONG via Waxy.org: Links Miniblog [via]
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Andy Baio : 12 Glowing Men - also: the 1957 version of 12 Angry Men is on YouTube in its entirety [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Diesel Sweeties leaves unprofitable print syndication, back to web-only - Lore Sjoberg interviews R. Stevens about the switch [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
factoryjoe : XCRI: eXchanging Course-Related Information - XCRI is a JISC-funded, UK-oriented project to establish a specification to support the eXchange of Course-Related Information. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: courseware, specification, open data, education
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30/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : A Love Supreme @ $7.99 - John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (iTunes) is on sale, $7.99. Considered a must-have for Jazz aficionados and music appreciators in general.
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30/07/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile Web Europe 2008 - Mobile Web Europe 2008, London, 22-24 September. A strong line-up of speakers, and the agenda looks solid, too.
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30/07/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bowser's Minions - those College Humor guys are on a roll
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30/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
mmb : Athlists » Blog Archive » 20 Ways to Die Trying to Dunk a Basketball - Athlists » Blog Archive » 20 Ways to Die Trying to Dunk a Basketball via 20 Ways to Die Trying to Dunk a Basketball | MetaFilter [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
mmb : supercoder.jpg - supercoder.jpg via Popular pages on del.icio.us [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Re: Cephalopod by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News
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30/07/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Best Flickr tag to date. - And a new meme right around the corner.
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30/07/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wealth of Networks - a semi-account - I'm really honored that John Varney would refer to me in this way
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30/07/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wealth of Networks Event - With each step in how computing networks have emerged, first connecting machines and then connecting people, the value has increased exponentially.
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30/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
nelson : Paris Candid Camera - American TV show sends obnoxious Texans to Paris cafes, films results
Andy Baio : Candid Camera-style show sends "Ugly Americans" to Parisian cafes, records results - the locals were extremely tolerant and were only chastised by other Americans [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : Rock slide closes Vancouver to Whistler route - "A cliff has collapsed onto the Sea to Sky Highway, closing the route between Vancouver and Whistler for at least 24 hours."
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30/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Coasters for the typophiliac - "Coasters for the typophiliac. These coasters are made from 4 mm Eurolite plywood, and treated with mineral oil to prevent water penetration. Each coaster is approximately 3.75 inches in diameter, and is done in the typeface Baskerville SemiBold." $25 and
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30/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Grammar Cheat Sheet - The Grammar Cheat Sheet. For the astute grammarian. Or for the rest of us who mess up most of these half the time.
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30/07/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 50+ examples of "typography greatness" - Chad Mueller: "[B]elow are 50+ examples of what I have found inspiring in my quest to achieve typography greatness." Probably the most inspiring thing I've seen this week. (Useless aside: "Müller" was my mother's father's real surname before his family e
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30/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : Universal USB Power Data Link Cable for PSP Nintendo DS Lite iPod,PSP USB Power Cable,Nintendo DS Lite USB cable - "USB 2.0 transfer data from your computer to the iPod. Recharge your PSP,NDS,NDS Lite,iPod"
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30/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : COLON BLOW!!!! [video] - COLON BLOW!!!! [video]: hahahahaha... most definitely not the SNL skit
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30/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : DNS attack writer a victim of his own creation - Network World
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30/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : 401k Loan Double Taxation Myth | The Finance Buff - "It’s a mind trick similar to that well-known "where’s the missing dollar" puzzle."
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30/07/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
mmb : Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us? - Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us? via Google’s information gathering thechniques… : programming [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
mmb : http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/cortez-the-killer.mp3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/cortez-the-killer.mp3 via Projectionist: A tumblelog [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The Scrolling Experience and “The Fold” - “This does not mean, however, that ‘above the fold’ is obsolete. It has just become a little more nuanced.” ∞
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30/07/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Emacs Cheat Sheet
Eric Meyer : Emacs Cheat Sheet - Where's the keybinding for "finish writing this program for me"? I know it's in there somewhere; after all, emacs has EVERYTHING. [via Mark] [via]
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30/07/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Call Me Fishmeal.: “The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing - "Initially, people like having sex without condoms, too"
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30/07/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Just five countries supplied eighty percent of global arms exports between 2003 and 2007. - Go NATO Go!
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30/07/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Dickipedia! - I vote Cheney as permanent feature.
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30/07/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Greg Storey : "At its simplest, a sandwich is two slices of bread enclosing a filling. - It also is often a perfectly balanced meal, consisting of protein, vegetable, carbohydrate, often dairy and even fruit."
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30/07/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
mmb : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Moviefone - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Moviefone via Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : 16 Secrets The Restaurant Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - 16 Secrets The Restaurant Industry Doesn't Want You to Know: some not so surprising but scary stuff in there
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30/07/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons — All in the head
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30/07/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : YouTube - Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus on the Letterman show - wow, what a loon. an awesome loon.
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30/07/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Managing community in media requires a 3-pronged approach - Great article from Meg Pickard of the Guardian.
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30/07/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
gleuschk : Girls=Boys in Math | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - But linear algebra was the only thing that ever made me feel like a man
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30/07/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : DjangoCon & Django 1.0 updates - DjangoCon & Django 1.0 updates. DjangoCon tickets will be released in two batches of 100. The first set will be available at 12 noon UTC on Thursday July 31st; the second set will be released at 6pm UTC on Friday August 1st.
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30/07/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
joshua : ELIE - An Adaptive Information Extraction System | aidanf.net
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30/07/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC - Music - The first part of Auntie Beeb's integration with MusicBrainz and Wikipedia is live. Every artist in MusicBrainz now has a page on bbc.co.uk, featuring radio playcount information where available. Very cool. [via] #
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30/07/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : A List Apart’s Survey, 2008 Edition - You took it, right? Of course you did. ∞
Richard Rutter : ALA Web Design Survey 2008 - I took it, so should you (doesn’t take long)..
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30/07/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Waverly Flams and the Magic Pants - "I'm a God! I have breathed life into my pants!"
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