28/09/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Alaskan Way is in the way. - It's yucky.
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28/09/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : Roadside Picnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The name of the novel derives from a metaphor proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the visit to a roadside picnic. After the picnickers depart, nervous animals venture forth from the adjacent forest and discover the picnic ga
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28/09/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Looking for meaning in Paulson's unshaven chin. - I think it shows a man who is doing what he can to handle global stress.
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28/09/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : Switch off the iTunes 8 genre browser - Vox - also the arrow links to the iTunes store, with 'defaults write com.apple.itunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE'
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28/09/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
43folders : Zotero - "Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."
deusx : Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool - "Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."
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28/09/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - I still like the idea of him saying horseshit. "I've removed the original post of a little time ago because after listening to the clip about two dozen times, what sounded like McCain saying "horseshit" actually comes through as having
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28/09/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Vienna - "Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download."
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28/09/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - "It seems that using queuing systems in web apps is the new hottness . While the basic idea itself certainly isn’t new, its application to modern, large, scalable sites seems to be. At the very least, it’s something that deserves talking about
Simon Willison : Flickr Engineers Do It Offline - Flickr Engineers Do It Offline. Flickr wrote their own queuing mechanism (in PHP), and currently run ten queue servers on dedicated hardware for tasks like pushing new photos in to indexes, denormalisation and “backfills” which move data between clu
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28/09/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
joshua : gravity! demo by Eric Seidel - deforms any page. didn't know there was a physics engine for javascript. neat technique for injecting code from another page, as well
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