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deusx : Blackbird - Open Source JavaScript Logging Utility - "Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again."
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Greg Storey : Clorox needs a web designer. - Go clean house.
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Andy Baio : Kongregate Labs tutorial for creating a side-scrolling shooter in Flash - helping convert gamers to creators is good for everybody [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : US election: Father secretly names baby Sarah McCain Palin - US election: Father secretly names baby Sarah McCain Palin: "I was actually going to name the baby John McCain, even as a girl, but I thought that was maybe too overboard," he said.
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15/10/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Scraping Wikipedia data with Google Spreadsheets and Yahoo! Pipes - solid tutorial; for this kind of thing, I'd also consider Freebase
Simon Willison : Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets - Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets. I hadn’t played with =importHTML in Google spreadsheets, which lets you suck in data from an HTML table or list somewhere on the web. This tutorial takes it further, bringing Wikipedia, Yahoo! Pipes an
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Simon Willison : Page Inlink Analyzer - Page Inlink Analyzer. Here’s why I’m so keen on JSONP APIs—Eric Miraglia’s tool fires off dozens of cross-domain JSON requests to pull together information about inbound links to your site from Yahoo! Site Explorer and del.icio.us. I imagine it [via]
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wearehugh : Learning to Fear the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com) - "Know what else is great? Now, finally, ten years on, I know that the Semantic Web technology is a real, viable technology, because I'm afraid I'll get sued for using it."
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wearehugh : Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the application - how to use feedparser on google app engine (let appengine do the fetching, then pass the result to feedparser). future versions may automate this.
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jonhicks : Mr T colouring book! - MR T pities the fools who lived in this pioneer sodhouse in Nebraska!
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deusx : rc3.org — Filtering versus conditional logic - "What I’m wondering is why more server-side frameworks don’t have similar selector-based DOM manipulation tools built in. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could attach such filters to views on the server side and manipulate the output page before itâ
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deusx : Gettin’ All Mavericky by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 13 October 2008 - "Nevertheless, Palin’s verbal hodgepodge may say nothing about her qualifications for the vice presidency. Judgment and political acumen could well rest on different mental capacities than the ability to order thoughts into smooth sentences. But th
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deusx : The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine - "I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung t
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deusx : YUI: Bacon Utility - "The Bacon Utility allows you to cook bacon on any HTML element."
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deusx : Palin vindicated?: ADN Editorial | adn.com - "She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part." Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian. Page 8, Finding Number One of th
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deusx : MUJI Online - AM/PM Organiser Notebook - A5. - So awesome. Rather than dividing up the page with a line per hour, there's a small clock in the center of the page that lets you write relative to radial time in open space. "Can be used as a notebook, or simple diary. Each page represents 12
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gleuschk : The Daily Show Full Episode | Monday Oct 13 2008 | Comedy Central - featuring my cousin-in-law in the final seconds
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Simon Willison : FOWA sketchnotes - FOWA sketchnotes. Kai Chan Vong’s sketch notes from this year’s Future of Web Apps.
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wearehugh : McCain campaign protests YouTube's DMCA policy | Politics and Law - CNET News - youtube doesn't have a DMCA "policy". they have the fucking DMCA. don't shoot the messenger.
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deusx : rc3.org — Filtering versus conditional logic - "What I’m wondering is why more server-side frameworks don’t have similar selector-based DOM manipulation tools built in. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could attach such filters to views on the server side and manipulate the output page before itâ
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jonhicks : Flipped Types — Jon Tan 陳 - That's web typography that is
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Richard Rutter : New York Cheat Sheets - Lovely little pieces of information design.
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Andy Baio : RjDj, reactive generative music app for the iPhone - reacts to sensory input from the microphone and accelerometer
Rod Begbie : RjDj - Echoing Andy Baio's advice on Twitter: "If you have an iPhone, go install RjDj Single (it's free), pop in your headphones, start it up, and go back to whatever you were doing." S'bloody AMAZING! [via] #
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Andy Baio : Midori-san, the blogging houseplant - if you think that plant's really blogging, then I have a bridge to sell you
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Andy Baio : Frotzophone, making music with interactive fiction - don't miss the MP3 of him playing Zork [via]
deusx : Frotzophone - "The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a
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Richard Rutter : Yahoo OpenID fails woefully in usability testing - Sad but not exactly unexpected – I get confused with Yahoo’s implementation and I’m an avid OpenID consumer.
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Andy Baio : New York Magazine's long profile of FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver - if you haven't, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he's totally changed the game
gleuschk : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine - 538.com is burning a hole in my screen
Rod Begbie : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections - Great profile in New York Magazine of Nate Silver and the sterling work he's been doing at fivethirtyeight.com. Got to love anyone who can make a living from a combination of baseball, politics and obsessive number-crunching. [via] #
Greg Storey : Tom, forget Ann Coulter you need to follow this guy. - FiveThirtyEight is about as unbiased as it gets.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Office Jerk [video] - Office Jerk [video]: OMG that is a funny video!!!!11!!!!1!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet [video] - Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet [video]: heh
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wearehugh : Web Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3.1 beta 1 - an overview of features for web developers
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Andy Baio : New York Times releases Campaign Finance API - totals for each candidate by state or ZIP code and lookup by donor name, with JSON, XML, or serialized PHP output [via]
joshua : Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Open - Code - New York Times Blog
Simon Willison : Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API. The New York Times have released their first data API, exposing campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. [via]
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