21/11/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
factoryjoe : Getting Things Done with "Things": a Review by Erik Hanberg | GTD Times - Things.app is getting a lot of attention -- deservedly so. Another decent review, with some suggestions for improvements. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Mac, gtd, things.app, review, software,:mento.info [via]
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deusx : Play Rhythm Games using any MIDI Instrument - "wouldn't it be great to be able to play Guitar Hero on the drums?"
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Jeremy Zawodny : Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective - Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective: "Altering your database schema to accommodate gay marriage can be easy or difficult depending on how smart you were when you originally set up your system to accommodate heterosexuality only"
cobra libre : Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective - "Note: By popular demand, this problem is now known as 'Y2gay'" #
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wearehugh : The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming
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factoryjoe : Workout Programs, Exercise Routines, and Food Diary | Gyminee - "Gyminee is the premier fitness social network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation. Whether you are trying to lose weight or get fit, it's time to start taking your fitness seriously." Saved By: Chris Messina | [via]
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factoryjoe : CalorieKing - Diet and weight loss. Calorie Counter and more - "Control your weight or your weight will control you. At CalorieKing, our mission is to put you in charge of your weight so you can enjoy the life you choose." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: diet, health, f [via]
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factoryjoe : spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more. - "spy can listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in. What do you want to listen for?" Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, spy, socialnetworking, aggregator, search,:mento.info [via]
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jcgregorio : The TurboGears 2 Wiki Tutorial — TG2 v1.9.7 documentation
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deusx : The Phrasebook Pattern - Not unlike templates for (X)HTML? "The Phrasebook pattern is a technique to separate expressions in one language (e.g., SQL) from the main code that is written in another programming language (e.g., Perl). This is done by keeping the expressions in a
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Greg Storey : SNL has interviewed four comedians to play a better Obama. - "While Armisen handily pulled off the arduous task of poking fun at a man we'd follow off a cliff, critics agreed that his interpretation left a little something to be desired."
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Greg Storey : Social Networking with ExpressionEngine, Part 2. - More Airbag proprietary information given away, for free.
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21/11/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
jcgregorio : Official Google Data APIs Blog: Like a Version; AtomPub Compliant for the Very First Time - Yeah, we're compliant!
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deusx : Sources: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Canceled - E! Online - Damn. The crappy new Knight Rider continues on, yet shows like Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls get cancelled. ""I think the writers’ strike did it," Chenoweth (Daisies' Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. "I thi
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21/11/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : Woork: 20 Great PHP frameworks for developers - "Take a look at this list with 20 great PHP frameworks and suggest that you prefer or a new link to a framework not included into this list."
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Greg Storey : "Getting furious whenever someone lays claim to creative work that is not their own is not an overreaction." - Hells yes.
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21/11/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
jcgregorio : Google App Engine Blog: SDK 1.1.6 Released
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deusx : Bob Sutton: The Auto Industry Bailout: Thoughts About Why GM Executives Are Clueless And Their Destructive “No We Can’t” Mindset - "In short, my view is that if GM can’t figure out ways to get their managers and executives to understand the experience of owning a car for the average person, if they can’t get rid of those jets, and if they can’t reduce the number of brands,
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deusx : Burger King Has Dropped Their Wallet | So Good - "It appears that in the last few days, there are a handful of bloggers who, by finding wallets on the ground, have unwittingly stumbled across the latest under-the-radar Burger King promotion. The fast food chain has dispensed agents across major U.S
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jcgregorio : Script for Dynamic Display Management with fglrx - ThinkWiki - Fn+F7 support for the T60p, I hope.
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Cameron Moll : Mobile Web App Design: Building an online store - Mobile Web App Design: Building an online store. A fairly straightforward tutorial for sketching and coding a mobile-friendly store.
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Cameron Moll : New Campaign Monitor available next week - The new Campaign Monitor, which merges Campaign Monitor and MailBuild, is available at the end of next week. Honestly, if you're doing any kind of email marketing -- plain text or HTML -- this is the app for you. Resell email marketing to your clients, as
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Cameron Moll : Alan Chao's Type Coasters - Speaking of Veer, they'll soon be selling Alan Chao's Type Coasters, as reported by Core 77. I was lucky enough to get a set of these in laser-cut wood directly from Alan before Veer acquired the product. (Veer's will be frosted acrylic.)
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Cameron Moll : Two new typefaces from Veer I wouldn't mind getting my hands on - Two new typefaces from Veer I wouldn't mind getting my hands on: the grunge, stamp-like DF Forge and the classic, ink-blotted Dear Sarah Pro.
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Cameron Moll : A look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs - A look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs. Learned this morning the correct phrase is actually "the proof of the pudding is in the eating", and with Nokia phones the phrase holds up. Hands down, Nokia phones are by far the most durable phones I've ever owned.
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deusx : Herman Miller Review: An Exoskeleton Is Fused To My Spine, And I Love It - "A network of lightweight interfaces has been stuck to my back for the past few weeks, receiving information about the slightest movement of my spine. My new Herman Miller Embody chair is like an exoskeleton, supplementing my body's own structur
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deusx : mitcho > code > Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site."
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Simon Willison : Skillswap goes Portable - Skillswap goes Portable. Skillswap Brighton will be addressing OAuth and Data Portability on Wednesday. I’m annoyed to be missing it.
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Andy Baio : Boston College to stop offering email accounts to new students - students come in with fully-formed online identities, so they'll just redirect to their existing email addresses [via]
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Andy Baio : Pixel typography from the 16th century - from an Italian embroidery guide [via]
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Andy Baio : 19-year-old commits suicide live on Justin.tv - it should surprise nobody that he was egged on by 4chan, who always adore an hero
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factoryjoe : Cyberscams Befriend Social Networks - BusinessWeek - "Now fraudsters may log on as your "friend." How Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites are fighting a rise in scams" Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: security, socialnetworking,:mento.info [via]
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factoryjoe : Track Your Push-ups With GiveMe27 - Track Your Push-ups with GiveMe27 Do your push-ups. Track it. Get stronger. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: pushups, selftracking,:mento.info [via]
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21/11/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Fort Clonque - Fort Clonque. Nat and I are heading here for a week of offline holiday. Back on the 28th.
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Andy Baio : "Bike Hero" video was Activision's viral marketing, as suspected - I maintain that it's still great, but Derek disagrees
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Andy Baio : Kottke on Brian Battjer's I Keep A Diary - no joke, I just spent the last hour reading his photojournals of South Korea, Japan, Dubai, and NYC
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factoryjoe : Social Patterns Wiki - "The Designing Social Interfaces patterns wiki is a companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media. We decided to share the patterns as we write the patterns and the book to [via]
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factoryjoe : YDN Forums -> OpenID General Discussion - This is the place to give feedback and discuss Yahoo! OpenID Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: yahoo, openid, forum,:mento.info [via]
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factoryjoe : Yahoo! OpenID limited testing for Simple Registration support (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) - "Today, we are announcing the start of a limited test of the Simple Registration extension for the Yahoo! OpenID service. The Simple Registration extension allows OpenID RPs to request user profile data from the OpenID provider. Yahoo! [via]
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factoryjoe : Why Firefox Won't Survive Chrome (Microsoft Watch) - "News Commentary. It's not a question of if but when Google will cut off Mozilla's oxygen supply." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: chrome, mozilla, firefox, browsers, microsoft,:mento.info [via]
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joshua : Slight modification of today's Dilbert on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - good summary of my experience
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Jeremy Zawodny : SFGov: Taxicab Commission: Taxicab Companies - SFGov: Taxicab Commission: Taxicab Companies: wow, they even show the revoked ones!
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Andy Baio : Torben Sko's experiments with camera-tracked head gestures in first-person games - he uses a simple webcam, FaceAPI, and the Half-Life 2 engine
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Andy Baio : The Faces of Mechanical Turk - When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic. You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world. It was great for getting work done, but who are these peopl
factoryjoe : The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org - "Last week, I started a new Turk experiment to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face?" Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: mechanicaltur [via]
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Andy Baio : Star Trek theme played on a homebrew Wii theremin - here's how it works [via]
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Andy Baio : Chicken Head Tracking - strangely hypnotic, other birds have the same ability [via]
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jcgregorio : The Viridian Design Movement - Good-bye letter, still working my way through it. Amazing stuff.
philgyford : The Viridian Design Movement - Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
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