19/09/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
veen : How Rothko's Seagram murals found their way to London | Culture | The Guardian - "Mark Rothko was an unknown abstract expressionist when he won a plum commission - to provide paintings for New York's swankiest restaurant. So why did he pull out and give them to the Tate? Jonathan Jones investigates."
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19/09/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Stack Overflow on favorite programming-related cartoons - they're doing some interesting things with reputation, like gaining points to acquire new powers
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19/09/2008 @ 20:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Copy Paste Character - ⌘C ⌘V Character. Aye! Added to me locker o' bookmarks.
Milo Vermeulen : Copy Paste Character
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19/09/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Cisco buys jabber.com - Good lord, did they actually look at the protocol?
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19/09/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
veen : The Scoop on Achieving Better, Faster Design by Erika Hall - "Whether you are working with an internal or external design team, instituting a few key practices can get you much further much faster. Ignoring them can bog your team down in frustration."
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19/09/2008 @ 19:06 GMT
jcgregorio : Stocks Surge as U.S. Acts to Shore Up Money Funds and Limits Short Selling - NYTimes.com - The Free Market Fairy has been ethered and pinned to a cork board.
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19/09/2008 @ 19:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : Groove Juice cymbal cleaner - Need a good cymbal cleaner? Groove Juice works really well. I can vouch for this review, having just cleaned mine with it. (Available at Amazon.)
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19/09/2008 @ 19:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Planika Fires stunning indoor "mobile fire solutions" - Planika Fires has some stunning indoor "mobile fire solutions", such as this, this, and this.
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19/09/2008 @ 19:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Griffin AirCurve, an acoustic amplifier for iPhone - Griffin AirCurve, an acoustic amplifier for iPhone. "AirCurve's waveguide has been engineered to deliver amazing amplification -- you'll swear there are full-sized speakers in there." Available next month(?) for $20.
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19/09/2008 @ 19:02 GMT
Linkorama : Announcing The Launch Of The Voter Suppression Wiki - The freely-editable online hub aims to coordinate information and activism around any foul play and/or mess ups that might make election '08 less than on the level.
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19/09/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : How to write in plain English - by Harvard School of Public Health
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19/09/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Star Simpson speaks with BBtv for the first time about her Boston Airport "hoax device" ordeal - her year-long battle's over, and chose Boing Boing to tell her story because they had the most responsible news coverage
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19/09/2008 @ 18:08 GMT
Greg Storey : "Wasilla is just plain ugly, it's not a pleasant place to live. It's not thought out. And that's a shame." - I can vouch for that.
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19/09/2008 @ 18:07 GMT
Eric Meyer : Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions - Hooray, they're prefixing their extensions! Wish some of my personal favorites were in there but it's a good start. [via Dan] [via]
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19/09/2008 @ 18:06 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Porno Party - Porno Party: NSFW but REALLY funny
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19/09/2008 @ 18:05 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Two Guys Pretend To Make-Out Behind CNN Reporter [video] - Two Guys Pretend To Make-Out Behind CNN Reporter [video]: ha!
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19/09/2008 @ 18:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo: How Open When You Compete With Others? - Yahoo: How Open When You Compete With Others?: 'I'm weary of "Open" somehow being magic fairy dust that if sprinkled on a problem is something companies hope makes everything better.'
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19/09/2008 @ 18:03 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Open Source Search Engine Rodeo: Solr v. Sphinx v. MySQL-FT - Open Source Search Engine Rodeo: Solr v. Sphinx v. MySQL-FT: didn't dig very deep but this is a useful data point anyway
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19/09/2008 @ 18:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Solr tutorial - Solr tutorial: "This document covers the basics of running Solr using an example schema, and some sample data. "
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19/09/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : INNODB FREEZE - INNODB FREEZE: "I want mysqlhotcopy semantics for InnoDB."
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19/09/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Reduce Power Usage with PowerTOP | Tombuntu - Reduce Power Usage with PowerTOP | Tombuntu: interesting results on my T61
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19/09/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
joshua : QuantLib: a free/open-source library for quantitative finance
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19/09/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme - so awesome
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19/09/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Brown Sharpie » Archive » Please Don’t Kick My Puppy. - Every time you cancel fractions incorrectly, someone kicks this puppy
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19/09/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Design solutions - Fantastic Flickr collection of interface bits.
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19/09/2008 @ 12:01 GMT
joshua : Loops of Zen - I find this very pleasing, visually
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19/09/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
joshua : scraping using google docs spreadsheet - neat
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19/09/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Dan Hanna's Daily Photo Aging Project - the mother of all photo-a-day projects, he shot himself front-to-back for 17 years
nelson : Time of my Life - 17 years of a guy photographing himself daily
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19/09/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
Andy Baio : TechCrunch posts the three new Microsoft "I'm A PC" ads - much better than the Seinfeld ads
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19/09/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google adds pirate translation for Talk Like A Pirate Day - be ye feelin' lucky?
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19/09/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sergey Brin starts blogging - his first entry's interesting, about his predisposition to Parkinson's he discovered using 23andme [via]
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19/09/2008 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Twitter launches redesign - small, subtle improvements all over; FriendFeed and Yahoo redesigned, too
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19/09/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Road Warrior: I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet, and you're not - "I like to think I'm resistant to neophilia, the fetishistic embrace of new technology endemic to Silicon Valley. And yet I felt a rush when I logged on to Gogo's inflight Wi-Fi service on the American Airlines flight I'm currently tak
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19/09/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : What Mozilla Means to Me at Toolness - Among other things, here's why I'm not too stressed about Google Chrome. Also, why Mozilla is unlike any other company I've ever worked for. "Over 180 million users worldwide, Over 5000 community-contributed extensions Over 50 localiza
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19/09/2008 @ 02:04 GMT
Linkorama : Social Software, Community, and Organization: Where Practice Meets Process - Shared experience, not just shared information, is fundamental to the social networks underlying collaboration and community. Many, if not most, employees don’t only need to get to know one another through reputational systems, like who tags whom or rat
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19/09/2008 @ 02:03 GMT
Linkorama : More Thoughts On Social Presence - Any social presence platform would clearly need to include a policy management component that would integrate with security and identity management systems within an enterprise to support authentication, authorization and related demands (e.g. logging, au
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19/09/2008 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy - "Do you see a problem here?" he posed, showing another slide of the popular iPhone app "iBeer," which simulates chugging a pint. "You have to ask yourself, are we working on the right things?"
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19/09/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Linkorama : Dealing with process and practice around collaboration - The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. those that want it loose and human. I think this is the same as the issue I brought up: technology implemented without acknowledging the human behav
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19/09/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : [0808.3569] Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology - ""Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognizers can offl
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19/09/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Video: What LASIK Really Feels Like - Still somewhat freaked out by the whole concept of Lasik surgery, yet intrigued by the opportunity for enhancement. "Once my corneas were cut open and I experienced that initial pain, I was definitely frightened, and escaped to a corner of my mind wh
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19/09/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Greg Storey : Herb Kelleher on why Southwest Airlines rawks. - "...our principal advantage at Southwest and in this milieu is the fact that we're so strong financially."
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