3/12/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Index of /projects/rsnap - Index of /projects/rsnap: it's an ad-hoc version of rsnapshot, basically... cool!
joshua : rsnap - rsnap is a backup and snapshot utility based on rsync.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Linkorama : "Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money" - In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing, the man who oversees $200 billion of China’s $2 trillion in dollar holdings, explains why he’s betting against the dollar, praises American pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wal
# copy3/12/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Linkorama : How To Automate Chaos - Technologies and techniques for supporting processes that can't be automated.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Linkorama : Andrew McAfee - I imagined that one of the big 3 American auto companies was taken over tomorrow by enlightened and aggressive new leadership whose only goals are to restore the company to operational and financial excellence. This leadership is enlightened (in my book)
# copy3/12/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Buying Tomatoes at the Birthplace of Silicon Valley - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - "Those rare creatures who consider themselves Silicon Valley history buffs can rejoice — the “birthplace of Silicon Valley” has reopened for business — this time as a fruit and meat market."
# copy3/12/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Farewell, LAUNCHcast - Farewell, LAUNCHcast: "Nice job, music industry. Instead of collecting money from these services, you’ve shut down any chance of revenue. Nobody buys CDs anymore and Apple is in control of all your music distribution. Way to go."
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3/12/2008 @ 21:08 GMT
Cameron Moll : Favorite Book Covers of 2008 - The Book Design Review's Favorite Book Covers of 2008. Personally, I'd add Indi Young's Mental Models to the list.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 21:08 GMT
Cameron Moll : Antonio Carusone's The Grid System - Antonio Carusone's The Grid System is a one-stop source for articles, tools, and books on the topic of -- you guessed it -- grids.
philgyford : The Grid System - Nice resource on designing web sites using a grid. All we need now is a resource on designing web sites with DECENT LINK STYLES.
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3/12/2008 @ 21:06 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon Mobile for iPhone - Amazon releases an iPhone app for optimized shopping, including an awesome product-recognition tool that lets you snapshot products in bricks'n'mortar stores and price-compare them automagically. Hurrah! [via] #
# copy3/12/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
factoryjoe : Kathleen Parker - The Twitter Phenomenon -- In Touch, Always, in Cyberspace - washingtonpost.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Twitter,:mento.info [via]
# copy3/12/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Linkorama : A Taste of Magic: The First Apps We Show New Users - ReadWriteWeb - scott schnaars is fameous
# copy3/12/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : "Prop 8 - The Musical" - "Prop 8 - The Musical": heh... funny
Andy Baio : Prop 8: The Musical - starring John C. Reilly, Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, and Jack Black as Jesus
Rod Begbie : Prop 8 - The Musical - Massive amounts of awesomeness abound. Three solid minutes of musical greatness. [via] #
# copy3/12/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dog Having a Blast in the Snow - Video - Dog Having a Blast in the Snow - Video: that's one very happy dog!
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Andy Baio : Amazon's Turk-powered app for the iPhone to identify product photos - a truly harebrained idea, since SnapTell does the same thing instantly using image similarity for all CDs, DVDs, books, and games
# copy3/12/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sony deleting user-created LittleBigPlanet levels without warning - the gaming world is about to revisit all the lessons Web 2.0 already learned, from Friendster to Facebook
# copy3/12/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : XML-RPC in Mozilla - "Mozilla implements XML-RPC as a JavaScript component."
# copy3/12/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
deusx : mindkiller - mitten - plurk - "mitten says correcting wrong people on the Internet is the mind-killer, the little death that brings total obliteration. I permit it to pass over me."
# copy3/12/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web - Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web. Wired’s take on the story of Dan Kaminsky’s breaking-the-internet DNS vulnerability. Horrible headline.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : 24 ways: User Styling - 24 ways: User Styling. The web geek advent calendar is up and running again this year, with a striking new design.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Internet explorer mystery #1376 - Internet explorer mystery #1376. IE executes function definitions inside an “if (0)” block. That frightens me.
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Internet explorer mystery #1376 - "In IE, the redefinition of really() is interpreted and used even though it is inside a block of code that is not executed. Wonder of wonders..."
# copy3/12/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
jonhicks : 24 ways: User Styling - My article on 24ways is up! It explains how to start making your own site skins, like Helvetireader
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factoryjoe : Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please | Webware - CNET - "OpenID and its brethren could use a good, simplified marketing pitch, not to mention some announcements and partnerships that are more prominent than an extension for a niche Web browser. They need to use the resources that the likes o [via]
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3/12/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : YouTube's new video thumbnails to be determined algorithmically - they'll be representative of video content instead of cleavage shots designed to drive click traffic
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Rod Begbie : Why Git is Better Than X - Spent a chunk of today reading up on and playing around with git today. This summary seems pretty accurate from my initial pokings. [via] #
# copy3/12/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
factoryjoe : Twittershare | Phoreo.com - Design + Technology for Do-Gooders - "Share pictures, music, video, and other files with friends using Twitter." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Twitter,:mento.info [via]
# copy3/12/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : David Recordon on building OpenID in the browser - the best way to drive mass adoption, since it's such a difficult concept to understand otherwise
Simon Willison : Getting OpenID Into the Browser - Getting OpenID Into the Browser. David Recordon makes the case for online identity management as a key browser feature (I like the “your browser is currently locked” concept), and argues that Gears is in a great position to deliver it.
# copy3/12/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Image and video manipulation in Mathematica 7 - also, it supports built-in parallel processing on EC2
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3/12/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Pirates of the Amazon, Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay links to Amazon listings - similar Greasemonkey scripts exist for Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB [via]
# copy3/12/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Pragmatic Dictator » Remodelling - "The reason the codebase has got into a mess is because we failed to execute on important principles such as: 1. Take account of coupling and cohesion. 2. Be clear about people’s roles and responsibilities to avoid unqualified or inappropriat
# copy3/12/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SkyMall Catalogue Jamboree - SkyMall Catalogue Jamboree: holy crap, this stuff is funny
# copy3/12/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Songbird hits 1.0 - very exciting release, though iPod touch/iPhone aren't supported just yet
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