23/08/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Metafilter's collection of US presidential campaign commercials from 1958-1998 - use the play icons to watch the videos inline
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23/08/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Richard Nixon's Piano Concerto #1 - a story related to one of the best videos buried in that Metafilter post
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23/08/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Greg Storey : NYU is looking for a web developer. - I wonder if employees get free tuition.
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23/08/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : The dramatic effect of a firm nudge - Findings of this kind suggest that even when people have freedom of choice they are influenced, or nudged, by the context in which their decisions are made. This power gives business and governments opportunities.
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23/08/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Edge 255 - Clay Shirky and Tim O'Reilly on social software, the web platform and gin
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23/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
joshua : scie.nti.st » GNU screen with vertical split support
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23/08/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : Offical Shred Nebula Website - top-down shmup meets street fighter inspired multiplayer combat? out on sept 3 for XBLA apparently.
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23/08/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The Python Property Builtin - The Python Property Builtin. The always-educational Adam Gomaa explains the Python property built-in and shows how it can be used to improve Django’s model-based URL generation.
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23/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : DoS vulnerability in REXML - DoS vulnerability in REXML. Ruby’s REXML library is susceptible to the “billion laughs” denial of service attack where recursively nested entities expand a single entitity reference to a billion characters (kind of like the exploding zip file atta
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23/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Tip: Configure SAX parsers for secure processing - Tip: Configure SAX parsers for secure processing. Explains the billion laughs attack, among others.
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23/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Film + Food & drink | guardian.co.uk - Film + Food & drink | guardian.co.uk. The Guardian’s publishing system supports tag intersections based on the URL; this page shows all film stories that also mention food. There’s even an RSS feed. [via]
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23/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
wearehugh : The Bankruptcy Bill, Examined - Daily Kos - from 2005. shows in excruciating detail just how much of a heartless bastard joe biden (D-MBNA) is. needless to say, i'm extremely disappointed in obama's VP choice.
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23/08/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : BoomBot - addictive Flash game from the maker of Bloons
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23/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : MySQLGame, multiplayer database manipulation game - very odd use of SQL statements as a proof-of-concept game UI [via]
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23/08/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : iconocla.st -- a weblog by Schuyler D. Erle - ""When you put a thing on your to-do list, you are making a committment to do it," he says to me. "Meaning you aren't going to do some other things." He pauses. "So you have to choose between those things. Now, why do yo
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23/08/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : 13-hour Arena match leaves Warlock the victor - WOW Insider - "13 hours is a long time. Many of us have had shorter love affairs. It seems like a long time to chase a bear around an Arena, to me."
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23/08/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Chromeo go to Daryl Hall's house - occasionally awkward but mostly awesome, I really love this format
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23/08/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
wearehugh : GateWorld - Stargate Universe Has A Go! - hoora--- wait, i don't have cable anymore. any chance this will end up on hulu or some other legal site?
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23/08/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : 12 Managing change with Mercurial Queues - ooooh
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23/08/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : quilt - Summary [Savannah] - "The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc." Checkpoint and maintain floating uncommitted work-in-progress changes as a stack of patches
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23/08/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Mercurial Queues - Mozilla Developer Center - "Mercurial Queues, or MQ, is a Mercurial extension that lets you keep work in progress as mutable patches, instead of as immutable changesets. ... The output of a developer (on a good day, anyway) is patches. The MQ extension lets you treat a stack o
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23/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : TraceMonkey - TraceMonkey. Brendan Eich has been preaching the performance benefits of tracing and JIT for JavaScript on the conference circuit for at least a year, and the results from the first effort to be merged in to Mozilla core are indeed pretty astounding.
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23/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Xmitter : The Royal Oak Drinkup Was Fun - "It occurred to me today that I hadn’t yet written anything yet about the DrinkUP meeting that occurred here Wednesday night. Scott Beale, the founder and primary tentacle of Laughing Squid is in town this week and held a small informal get togeth
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23/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Foxkeh Dance - "Celebrating 10 years of Hampster Dance and 10 years of Mozilla"
Andy Baio : Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampsterdance and Mozilla - could only be better if they used the original sound clip instead of the dance remix from 2000 [via]
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23/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Launch Software - How To Launch Software: I wish more people understood this!
deusx : How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like
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