16/08/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : Television - The Most Trusted Man in America? - NYTimes.com - I fell in love with Jon Stewart all over again at this: "you know the difference between potential and kinetic energy?"
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16/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Cliffski's response to the game pirates - he solicited feedback from people who pirate games, with hundreds of replies [via]
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16/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : University of Washington team uses static photos to enhance, edit, and modify videos - insanely cool video tech demo; don't miss the sign removal at the 6:00 mark [via]
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16/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness - also presented at SIGGRAPH: Face Swapping
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16/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : SIGGRAPH 2008 papers on the web - I could spend all day looking at these
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16/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Phelps v. Cavic - Outstanding underwater photos of the incredibly close race last night
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16/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Cavic's blog - Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.
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16/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Slate on China's CCTV coverage of the Olympics - along with HD quality, perhaps why the Chinese have been dominating torrent activity
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16/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Constant Setting - real-time photos added to Flickr of the sun setting around the world; more from the developer [via]
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16/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk - experiment idea: can random turkers create a compelling narrative? [via]
Rod Begbie : Amazing but True Cat Stories - The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories. [via] #
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16/08/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture - Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture. How the team at guardian.co.uk used Domain-Driven Design in their recent two year rebuild. The core of DDD is having end users involved with domain modeling, which results in a shared domain language tha
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16/08/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TechCrunch digs up prototype screenshots of Gmail and Google Groups - dating back to 2002, very fun to see how it evolved [via]
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16/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Jason Scott on GIF News, graphical newsletter from 1988-1993 - the largest archive of the lovingly-crafted e-zine, now available on Flickr
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16/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mygazines, community for sharing print magazine scans - publishers are trying to shut it down, but having trouble with jurisdiction
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16/08/2008 @ 10:01 GMT
43folders : Tool Kit - Terror Grips You (Someone Has Called a Meeting) - NYTimes.com - "FOUR TIPS Writing on 43 Folders.com, a “family of Web sites� devoted to “simple ways to make your life a little better,� Merlin Mann offers these four ideas for improving the meetings you actually need to hold:"
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16/08/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, full-length chiptune documentary freely viewable for one week only - watch it before next Friday!
deusx : Chapter 01 | Pitchfork.tv - "One Week Only Reformat the Planet: Chapter 01 It started with sequencing 8-bit chipsets on Nintendo Game Boys, but the Chiptune scene has now expanded well beyond game systems. Directed by Paul Owens, Reformat the Planet is the essential introducti
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16/08/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
nelson : Molniya orbit - Eccentric orbit allows a satellite to dwell over one part of the earth
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16/08/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Why Blogs Need To Be Social - GigaOM - "Earlier this week, San Francisco-based web publishing software company Six Apart released the newest version of its flagship product, Moveable Type, and pushed the blogging community into taking the first step toward a very social futur
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16/08/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
cobra libre : k-punk: The Place I Made The Purchase No Longer Exists - "The two nondescript houses that had been either side of the shop remain, but the place you made the purchase no longer exists. It isn't there, but the Thing -- this portal to the Outside -- remains. It's yours now, forever. There is nowhere to return it #
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : iPhone is a bad phone - more data on the 3g fiasco
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Happy Olympics boys - Are there any out gay teams in the Olympics?
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Manny Ramirez Likes Red Sox's New Blue Uniforms | The Onion - "I'm also happy that they shortened the Green Monster, and painted it blue, because that wall was too tall before" [via] #
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
philgyford : TheWashCycle: The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist - I think decriminalising cyclists jumping red lights could, possibly, work. But until that happens: don't. That simple. Enough of the moaning and self-justification. (via Blech)
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
philgyford : LRB · letters page from Vol. 30 No. 14 - The '10' on 10 Downing Street's front door is Trajan, with an upper case 'O' instead of a zero.
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16/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
philgyford : Stone Cold Pimpin': NASA's Forgotten Ambient Albums - "Space music" from 1992: "raw, uncatalogued space sounds data ... we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce 'Symphonies of the Planets'". Ambient "music".
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16/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
philgyford : My Collection of Recorded 78 RPM Records - Free MP3 Downloads - Currently 3,739 free MP3s ripped from one guy's 78rpm records. That's a lot of listening. (via Boing Boing)
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16/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
philgyford : The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project - Detailed information about thousands of 78 RPM recordings. I love the Internet.
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16/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
philgyford : Hulu - Metropolitan - Whit Stillman has put his first film, 'Metropolitan', up on Hulu for free viewing. But, like the rest of Hulu, it only works in the US.
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