3/09/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials - Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials: "Parachutes reduce the risk of injury after gravitational challenge, but their effectiveness has not been proved wi
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3/09/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mutex contention in MySQL - Mutex contention in MySQL: Mark is doing some interesting digging
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3/09/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Appearing to enjoy Classical Music - Appearing to enjoy Classical Music: "Though white people do not actually listen to classical music, they like to believe that they are the type of people who would enjoy it."
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3/09/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : Integrating Ubiquity and Greasemonkey - ubiquity-firefox | Google Groups - "It occurred to us (Atul in specific) that it wouldn't be hard to allow Ubiquity scripts to wrap existing GreaseMonkey scripts. That way, you could simply subscribe to GM scripts with Ubiquity -- no more annoying and funky UI. What do y'al
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3/09/2008 @ 18:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : Notable designs for Wednesday - A few notable designs worth visiting, courtesy of CSS Import: The First Twenty, The Art of Richard Fang, and Mopa.
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3/09/2008 @ 18:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Logos by Saul Bass - Logos by Saul Bass. For those stateside, bet you recognize nearly every one of these.
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3/09/2008 @ 18:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences - Alissa Walker, Core77: Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences. "Lately, design conferences have begun to feel less like intellectual retreats and more like conspicuous consumption.... [W]e organizers, speakers and attendees have to start demanding more mea
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3/09/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Google's comic capers: what they really meant to say - Amused.
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3/09/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card - Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card: well that's pretty easy
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3/09/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : Important work can be done while daydreaming - The Boston Globe
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3/09/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : 10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome - Usually only those who hide something refer to critics as conspiracy theorists while others face the concerns and treat them with due diligence.
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3/09/2008 @ 16:05 GMT
philgyford : Ukelele - Mac OS X Keyboard Layout Editor - Could be your solution if you're trying to use a UK Windows keyboard (or something else non-Apple) with a Mac.
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3/09/2008 @ 16:04 GMT
philgyford : Foresight Education Project - A new wiki about teaching foresight / futures / etc. Includes course outlines etc. Promising.
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3/09/2008 @ 16:03 GMT
philgyford : David Rumsey Collection - Oodles of old maps, vieweable at satisfyingly high resolutions. Mostly 18th/19th century, mostly North/South America but a few others too.
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3/09/2008 @ 16:02 GMT
philgyford : Classic-Space LEGO: content / greebling: a closer look - "Greebling" is my new favourite word. (via Infovore)
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3/09/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
philgyford : Playlists and Archives for Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture - New favourite podcast. Completely corking. I think it's what characters in William Gibson novels listen to.
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3/09/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Why Assistant Professors Should Earn More Than the Tenured :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs - there are a lot of interesting but wrongheaded arguments here. no raises for faculty in the year they get tenure? as a policy?!
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3/09/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : We haven't changed the name of the conference to "Over Quota" - We haven’t changed the name of the conference to “Over Quota”. Aral is having intermittent App Engine quota problems, which are proving impossible to debug. I had a similar problem with an App Engine app a while ago—the quota / debugging story r
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3/09/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Aether, thoughtful art game from Gish artist - solve each planet's unique puzzle [via]
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3/09/2008 @ 09:03 GMT
Linkorama : The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web - A Google browser has been rumored for so long that most people have stopped talking about it. But the folks in this room know that the talking will soon begin again. Chrome is due to rock the Web just 16 days from this meeting.
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3/09/2008 @ 09:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Rupert Murdoch acted as peacemaker between Barack Obama and Fox News | guardian.co.uk - Some fascinating details on Rupert Murdoch swinging towards supporting Barack Obama. Murdoch has long been my favourite evil media tycoon -- I may hate his right-wing propoganda arms, but I admire the smarts with which he's conducted his businesses. #
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3/09/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Picasa adds facial recognition for tagging photos - watch the demo for an example
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3/09/2008 @ 08:02 GMT
Linkorama : Know the Net - When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community.
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3/09/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : PleaseDressMe - A t-shirt search engine. Limited to a small number of vendors currently (Threadless, Busted Tees, et al), but hopefully will expand to some new sources. [via] #
Andy Baio : PleaseDressMe, the t-shirt search engine - been playing around with Gary Vaynerchuk's new startup and it's great; also, Gary's broadcasting live on UStream
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3/09/2008 @ 04:03 GMT
Greg Storey : Typophile is looking for an intern. - Long hair hippy people need not apply.
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3/09/2008 @ 04:02 GMT
cobra libre : Ian Bicking: On the RNC, Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, and Protest - "Saturday morning my sister, Monica Bicking, and her boyfriend, Eryn Trimmer, were arrested in Minneapolis.... [S]he and Eryn were arrested in an attempt to preemptively suppress the protests at the Republican National Convention." #
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3/09/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
deusx : We'll never run out - "Are we running out of oil? The question seems silly. "Yes" is the obvious answer. Or is it? That there is less oil in the ground today than there was yesterday is true. That there was less oil in the ground yesterday than there was in 18
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3/09/2008 @ 02:03 GMT
deusx : Star Trek: The Experience closing down - CNN.com - "After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants to go. With a decommissioning ceremony -- as befits any great vessel -- the exhibit and its replica of the starship Enterprise are clo
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3/09/2008 @ 02:02 GMT
deusx : DOOM for Intellivision - "I finally got around to porting the freely available DOOM source code to the Intellivision. I will be posting the source code for the Intellivision version soon. The ROM image, weighing in at 32K words, is probably the largest cartridge ROM image ou
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3/09/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : V8 Design Elements - V8 Design Elements. High level design details of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, including how it uses “hidden classes” to optimise object property lookups and a bit of information on the machine code generation and garbage collection.
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3/09/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django: Security fix released - Django: Security fix released. The Django admin used to save partially-submitted forms if your session expired, and continue the submission when you logged in. It turns out that’s actually an unblockable CSRF exploit and is hence broken as designed, s
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3/09/2008 @ 00:04 GMT
Greg Storey : Sell your Apple stock now - and then get ready to buy a lot of it.
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3/09/2008 @ 00:03 GMT
Greg Storey : What's wrong with Steve Jobs? - An educated opinion from the medical world.
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3/09/2008 @ 00:02 GMT
Greg Storey : A fabulous look at infographics used in the movie I.O.U.S.A. - Lovely art direction.
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3/09/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
jonhicks : Google Chrome for OS X on it's way - After trying the Windows version, I'm hoping that they work on the Fisher Price interface and make it look at home on OS X
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