31/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : "Simon Willison's Weblog" on the redesigned Delicious - “Simon Willison’s Weblog” on the redesigned Delicious. The new search feature is extremely impressive; I can see myself coming here before hitting Google for some things. I’m not too keen on the way they’re adding ’www’ to the beginning of
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31/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Super User Conditional Page Exception Reporting - Super User Conditional Page Exception Reporting. The name is almost as long as the code snippet: this serves Django’s debug page to logged in super-users, falling back to the default 500 template for everyone else.
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31/07/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube - highly recommended viewing from the creator of The Machine Is Us/ing Us [via]
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31/07/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - Yet another one of those charts that each side will see as a strong argument for its candidate's policy positions and a powerful condemnation of the other side's candidate. [via Tim] [via]
deusx : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - "Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between t
gleuschk : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - nice to have some data
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31/07/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
cobra libre : Man decapitated on Canadian bus - This sounds like a case for the head detective! #
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31/07/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us 2.0 goes live as Delicious.com - tag combos still work perfectly, so I'm happy
Linkorama : Oh happy day the new Delicious is here - I just had to boorkmark this
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31/07/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Giles Coren’s “mightily pissed off” rant to The Times’ sub-editors - Brilliantly written, if hilariously one-sided. The sub-editors’ withering glare of a response is damned near perfect, though. ∞
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31/07/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" - incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children's book [via]
philgyford : Myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Imagine if every complaint about anything received a reply this thoughtful. (via Kottke)
wearehugh : myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - librarians can say "fuck you" better than anyone else
Eric Meyer : Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Now that is one fantastic response.
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31/07/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : YouTube introduces text search for political videos - their speech-to-text transcription gets a public trial in limited fashion on their You Choose section [via]
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31/07/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : A unit of what? - A knol, Knol says, is a “unit of knowledge”. I don’t think so. But I do think Knol is already becoming a den of spam.
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31/07/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
mmb : OMNOMNOMopoly | MetaFilter - OMNOMNOMopoly | MetaFilter
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31/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Deerhoof releases new single as sheet music, asks people to record their versions - Matthew Walker's cover is fantastic; Lucas Gonze contributed a MIDI score and guitar tab to work with [via]
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31/07/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield
Eric Meyer : Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield - I know Garfield is a big soulless merchandising machine, but I'm coming to discover that Jim Davis is genuinely cool and in-touch guy.
Cameron Moll : Garfield Minus Garfield to become a book - Garfield Minus Garfield to become a book, and creator Jim Davis approves.
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31/07/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
nelson : Ancestry by county - Nice map of census data
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31/07/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: Penalty for China Quake Photos Reported - “A school employee in Sichuan Province has been ordered to a labor camp for a year for taking photographs of schools that collapsed in the powerful May 12 earthquake and posting them on the Internet, a human rights group reported Wednesday.”
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31/07/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List - Science reporter John Tierney says, “I wouldn’t spend a nanosecond of my vacation worrying about any of these ten things.” With a follow-up on his blog, Tierney Lab.
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31/07/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
jonhicks : Fleet Foxes: The Lillywhite Session - Live session and interview stream
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31/07/2008 @ 12:01 GMT
jonhicks : Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox - Firefox getting all fancy on our ass
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31/07/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Open Source Food - Seriously impressive receip sharing site – every recipe seems to have a quality photo with it.
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31/07/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : World clock meeting planner - Handy for schedule meetings with clients spread around the world.
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31/07/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Spawning + Django - Spawning + Django. The latest version of Spawning (a fast Python web server built on top of the Eventlet non-blocking coroutine networking library) can run Django applications out of the box, using threads and processes to work around the blocking natur
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31/07/2008 @ 11:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Zero Punctuation : The E3 Trailer Park - Zero Punctuation is always worth watching -- viciously funny videogame reviews -- but this week's is a great sampler if you haven't watched before. #
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31/07/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
wearehugh : The gender trap | Sport | The Guardian - "[gender] is not always simple to ascertain"
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31/07/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Inconsolata - "monospaced fonts do not have to suck"
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31/07/2008 @ 05:31 GMT
Andy Baio : Caterina Fake joins Hunch.com as CPO - stealthy startup I'd keep a close eye on
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31/07/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Speed Racer Video Mosaic - every frame of the video is composed of hundreds of individual thumbnails
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31/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Admin Comments. - A must-have plugin for Expression Engine.
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31/07/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : The New Yorker: Interview with Françoise Mouly - The magazine’s “resident comic-book expert” on Comic-Con.
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31/07/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : NOVINT - The Novint Falcon - "The Novint Falcon lets you control a game in three dimensions, and also lets you feel high-fidelity three-dimensional force feedback. The Falcon controller moves right and left, forwards and backwards, like a mouse, but also moves up and down."
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31/07/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
Greg Storey : SpiekermannPartners is looking for a web designer. - Anyone living in Europe would be nuts to pass this up.
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31/07/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : The Onion: Al Gore Places Infant Son in Rocket to Escape Dying Planet - Hilarious.
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31/07/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Rockslide to close Whistler highway for 5 days: minister - "Reopening the highway between Whistler and Vancouver could take five days after a massive rockslide, B.C. Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon said on Wednesday."
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31/07/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Bus dodges massive rock slide on B.C. coastal highway - "'I can't believe I am alive,' says passenger after bus evades rockfall by seconds"
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31/07/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Judge Judy taping interrupted by L.A. earthquake - also: the set of Big Brother, KNBC News, KABC, L.A. City Hall, and Judge Jenny
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31/07/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : My niece talks like this asshat. - She's one year old.
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31/07/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : The perfect community. - How to create a borough that's green, clean, and well-connected as envisioned by the urbanist Alejandro Gutierrez.
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