28/08/2008 @ 21:04 GMT
Greg Storey : "Siouxland residents, many of whom consider themselves connoisseurs of fine food, a city is not a city without an Olive Garden." - I can't add insult to injury.
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28/08/2008 @ 21:02 GMT
nelson : Software bundling sleaze - You can pay Best Buy $30 to remove the crap that's preinstalled on your PC
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28/08/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Google + Mozilla - Advertising deal that funds Firefox extended to 2011
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28/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : New Captions Feature For Videos - YouTube Blog
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28/08/2008 @ 20:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Linux Io Scheduler - Waikato Linux Users Group - Linux Io Scheduler - Waikato Linux Users Group: I like being able to try new schedulers on the fly...
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28/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : tmpfs - tmpfs: "tmpfs is a common name for a temporary file storage facility on many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but one which uses virtual memory instead of a persistent storage device."
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28/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available - "IE8 Betas 1 and 2 behave the same way as IE6 when it comes to unrecognized elements. This is a huge problem for forward-compatibility looking ahead to HTML5."
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28/08/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
cobra libre : The "Truth" Hurts - Morgan Meis on James Woods's How Fiction Works. [via] #
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28/08/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bubble flow chart of things to say during sex - "Thanks... for that." [via]
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28/08/2008 @ 18:06 GMT
jcgregorio : MercurialHosting - Mercurial - Wow, there's a lot of options for hg hosting.
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28/08/2008 @ 18:05 GMT
Linkorama : I'm in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets - Now an employee can accidentally drop it into the lap of a random outsider without even knowing that anything is amiss. That’s the power of cloud computing at work.
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28/08/2008 @ 18:04 GMT
Linkorama : Techdirt: Do We Need a National CTO? - The idea of a designated tech policy advisor is more promising, but that also has potential downsides.
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28/08/2008 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : Social tools are not immune to being used the wrong way - Can blogs be harmful? I think it’s how you use them.
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28/08/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : Sharepoint wiki verses MediaWiki - A corporate wiki is a seriously powerful tool though, and I’m convinced that as an application it deserves a dedicated platform, such as Confluence or SocialText.
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28/08/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : How to use Google Code's code review tool - How to use Google Code’s code review tool. I missed this, but Google Code now has a pleasantly simple code review system built in to the source code browser. You can add comments to any changeset, including annotations attached to individual lines of
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28/08/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Chip pics - "Here was Chip as I found him: curled up, cold, appearing to be dead, in the middle of a trail in the Olympics."
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28/08/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TechBlog: Got a pirated copy of XP? Expect to be nagged - TechBlog: Got a pirated copy of XP? Expect to be nagged: oh, gee... I can't wait!!!
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28/08/2008 @ 16:03 GMT
Greg Storey : "Featuring turn-by-turn guidance from K.I.T.T. and synthesizer lights that accompany the voice directions, this GPS makes fantasy a reality." - No Turbo button? Not impressed.
Eric Meyer : Mio Knight Rider GPS Portable Navigation Device - Cooooooool. [via Greg] [via]
Rod Begbie : Mio™ Knight Rider™ GPS Portable Navigation Device - Only surprising that it took this long to appear: "Features the voice of K.I.T.T. (William Daniels) providing turn-by-turn voice guidance" [via] #
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28/08/2008 @ 16:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Stagnation nation - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog - let's let the GOP pretend this wasn't the desired outcome...
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28/08/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Capital Radio (the new site) - Capital Radio (the new site). Launched today, this is the Django-powered project I’ve been working on with the fantastic team at GCap.
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28/08/2008 @ 14:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Using Akismet with Django's new comments framework - Using Akismet with Django’s new comments framework. A nice example that demonstrates two features that were recently rolled in to the Django 1.0 betas: the new signals library and the new comments framework.
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28/08/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol - FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol. FriendFeed infamously poll RSS feeds on the 43 services they support millions of times an hour in an effort to keep their content as real-time as possible. SUP is a new proposal by FriendFeed for a sort of “mas
jcgregorio : FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster - briliant RESTful design, create a resource with the semantics you need.
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28/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Two cheers for the Target/NFB accessibility settlement - Bruce is pleased, but has reservations.
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28/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : URLsafe base64 encoding/decoding in two lines - URLsafe base64 encoding/decoding in two lines. A much better solution than my base65 hack—if you understand how base64 padding works (I didn’t) you can use it to generate URL-safe compressed hashes. Performance should be significantly better than my
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28/08/2008 @ 10:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : SYMLINK.DK - Montezuma's Revenge maps [via]
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28/08/2008 @ 08:03 GMT
Greg Storey : "Moscow is the most capitalist city in the world. - Most designer brands in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere add somewhere between 20% and 40% on top of their prices for the Russian market."
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28/08/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
deusx : Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater - "You put this stuff in without any plan, yet, like all good atoms, they form themselves into molecules."
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28/08/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Gph: The Wiz - Official Announcement - "The specs are quite powerful with an Arm9 533mHZ processor and 3D Accelerator and 64 MB of ram. Looks like the PSP, DS and even the Pandora will have a fight on."
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28/08/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
deusx : ThinkGeek :: Nerd Glasses - "You're smart, dammit. More importantly, you're not obsessed with impressing others. You are who you are, and you're proud of it. Maybe you scream it from the rafters, or maybe it's just in the privacy of your own home. Either way
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28/08/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : webdev.stephband.info - "Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (a
Cameron Moll : jParallax - "jParallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for
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28/08/2008 @ 06:04 GMT
Greg Storey : How do you decide to friend someone? - Cash helps, a lot.
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28/08/2008 @ 06:03 GMT
Greg Storey : The proper way to boil an egg. - For the Rocket Scientist's future reference.
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28/08/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : Tokyoflash Rogue LED / LCD Hybrid watch. - "With its ever present LCD interface, the time can be read at a glance but can be further illuminated with sci-fi green LEDs at the touch of a button, bringing the display to life like a glowing radar screen."
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28/08/2008 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Chronogasm: Slick, lickable sci-fi watch makes us drool | MINE - "We’re smitten by this timekeeper, and while the price is nothing to sniff at — around $160 — we think we’ll start saving up for this slick gizmo."
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28/08/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
gleuschk : The Speech - Chicago Magazine - June 2007 - Chicago - four years ago this week, Obama
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28/08/2008 @ 03:05 GMT
veen : Bikeway or the Highway - March/April 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club - "IN 1900, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS CREATED a futuristic traffic structure catering to the mechanical marvel of the day--the bicycle. It opened along a corridor known as the Arroyo Seco, named for the seasonal stream that flows from the San Gabriel Mount
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28/08/2008 @ 03:03 GMT
gleuschk : PHD Comics: How Professors spend their time - damn straight
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28/08/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
gleuschk : Really? - Can ManipulatingYour Neck Lead to a Stroke? - Question - NYTimes.com - years ago I asked my dad, a neurologist, whether cracking my neck was bad for me. he said, "I don't think so, but for god's sake don't do it around me."
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28/08/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
gleuschk : Constructive proof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - I hadn't seen this example (the \sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2} thing) before. Excellent
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28/08/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
gleuschk : SUNDAY October 1, 1995; SCHOOL: Thrift Slop - New York Times - scroungers! I never knew they made the nyt! just after I left, too
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28/08/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Interface design quotes. - Where's the Richard Saul Wurman?
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28/08/2008 @ 01:03 GMT
43folders : WordPress Theme deLight 1.0 | webdemar.com - Good-looking, spare theme for WordPress
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28/08/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Shadow botnet bust - Or so it's rumoured; somewhat skeptical
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28/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Larry Lessig on McCain's technology policy - he argues McCain's taking a strong stance against Internet growth in the US
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28/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django snippets: Sign a string using SHA1, then shrink it using url-safe base65 - Django snippets: Sign a string using SHA1, then shrink it using url-safe base65. I needed a way to create tamper-proof URLs and cookies by signing them, but didn’t want the overhead of a full 40 character SHA1 hash. After some experimentation, it turn
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