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nelson : Don't Buy From Bigots - List of businesses that donated to the anti-gay measure proposition 8.
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nelson : Mirror eyes - Amazing fish uses a focussing mirror instead of a lens to see
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Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Ari Brouillette's review of The Secret - I've often been sneery at the unmitigated hokum that is "The Secret", but this review might have convinced me to open my mind to it. [via] #
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deusx : A Softer World: 386 - "Yes. Yes I am the fluffiest kitty oh my gosh ever. And every day I learn how to make myself smarter and fluffier. I am the fluffy singularity."
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Andy Baio : Burger King asks users to delete 10 Facebook friends for a free Whopper - over 10,600 people have been unfriended so far [via]
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Andy Baio : Amy Bennett's oil paintings inspired by scale models - more on her site, including the story behind the work
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deusx : ThinkGeek :: Coffee Cup Power Inverter - "The Coffee Cup Power Inverter is a conveniently shaped power source that coverts your car's DC power into two 120-volt AC outlets. Perfect for powering or charging TV's, DVD players, game consoles, cell phones, and other portable electroni
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Simon Willison : How we use IRC at Last.fm - How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.
deusx : How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. - "Using netcat, you can easily send events to irc from shell scripts: $ echo “Something just happened” | nc -q0 somemachine 12345 That will send to the default channel only (first in the config file). You can direct messages to specific comb
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nelson : S3:// - Firefox extension to let you get to Amazon S3 files in your browser
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nelson : Book Burro - Firefox addon that looks up info on books in stores and libraries. Using this to help me check out a book at the library rather than buy it.
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deusx : mackstann's markovio at master — GitHub - "this script generates randomized super mario bros level-like images using python and a markov chain. "
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deusx : jQuery pageSlide - Halobrite - "jQuery pageSlide was inspired by the UI work of Aza Raskin. In his recent posts regarding concepts for Firefox Mobile and a mouse-based Ubiquity, Aza introduced the idea of sliding (or "throwing") content aside to reveal a secondary conten
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Simon Willison : why's potion - why’s potion. why’s latest project is a small, fast language (JIT to x86/x86-64) which seems to take ideas from Ruby, Lua, Python and who knows where else. Everything is based around objects, closures and mixins, with the delightful inclusion of sco
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Andy Baio : Kottke's Best Links of 2008 - somehow, I missed several of these; every link is worth reading
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Andy Baio : NYT launches Congress API - I really hope there's a contingency plan to keep this amazing work online in case things go bad
joshua : Announcing the Congress API - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
cobra libre : NYT: Announcing the Congress API - I expect to begin development of johncornyncanblowme.com as soon as humanly possible. #
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nelson : Israel shooting at UN relief trucks - Did I really read this right?
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jcgregorio : Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring
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jonhicks : Abusing text-shadow for fun and profit - Arve Bersvendsen - Text blur effects with text shadow CSS
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jonhicks : Creating presentations/slideshows with HTML & CSS - Opera Developer Community
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bmilleare : Manage PageRank by managing link flow
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bmilleare : Google Page Rank - Whitepaper
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bmilleare : How PageRank Works & Why the Original PR Formula May be Flawed
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bmilleare : Pagerank Explained. Google's PageRank and how to make the most of it.
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bmilleare : What do we know about PageRank? :: Smashing Magazine
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deusx : Do Tags Work? - If you can get past the rambling paragraphs of awkward fun-poking at tags interspersed with library science / web 2.0 / cultural references—as well as a discovery of what, you know, Flickr is all about—there's a well-embellished and obsessively-a
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deusx : Patient adherence to CPAP therapy elusive despite new methods | Clinical Psychiatry News | Find Articles at BNET - Crimony. I don't think I've slept a night without CPAP since I first got the machine. I can't imagine just not using it. "Continuous positive airway pressure is widely viewed as the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep apnea. W
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Simon Willison : Wetpaint no longer supports OpenID - Wetpaint no longer supports OpenID. I missed this, but they turned off their OpenID support in November due to low usage and high maintenance costs.
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Greg Storey : Watch Walmart invade the US. - Where Walmart equals cheap Chinese imports.
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jcgregorio : Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass (by Jeremy Zawodny) - Thoughts on N=1 vs N>1 software
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joshua : 21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful
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cobra libre : CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP #
Rod Begbie : CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP - Contains your recommended daily amount of cuteness and sleepiness. #
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Rod Begbie : "The Noises Rest" - The YouLookNiceToday boys investigate the art of silent film foley. [via] #
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gleuschk : YouTube - Branford Marsalis' take on students today (posted without condoning!) - I hear he's a decent horn player too
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Jeremy Zawodny : Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America - Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America: that is awesome and scary at the same time
gleuschk : Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America - can you say metastasis? i knew you could
Douglas Bowman : Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America - Beautiful (and scary at the same time) visualization of the growth of Walmart from 1962 through 2007. It’s like a virus that spreads across our country. Compare the Walmart viz with another Nathan just posted for Target today. From Nathan’s po
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Linkorama : KMWorld.com: Enterprise-friendly social software - "Our chief investment officer, Brian Trelstad, has been frustrated with knowledge capture since he started in 2004," says Robert Katz, knowledge and communications associate at Acumen. "When I was brought on board this spring, he asked me t
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Jeremy Zawodny : Gearman - Gearman: this is the new gearman site/wiki
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Jeremy Zawodny : [PATCH] add ReusePort option to IO::Socket::INET for better multicast support (resend) - [PATCH] add ReusePort option to IO::Socket::INET for better multicast support (resend): wow, that was 8 year ago. amusingly, I just found a use for it again today.
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Greg Storey : A New Virb is coming, with Awesomization™. - I got to see the work in progress a few months ago. Facebook is about to look very ghetto.
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Simon Willison : Gaza OpenStreetMap Update - Gaza OpenStreetMap Update. “We’re looking into purchasing satellite imagery for the north or the entirety of Gaza. There’s actually B/W imagery available from yesterday!”
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jonhicks : Thai Green Curry | Steph's Ramblings
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deusx : Rate limiting with memcached - "I think I’ve found a solution, thanks to memcached and in particular the incr command. incr lets you atomically increment an already existing counter, simply by specifying its key. add can be used to create that counter—it will fail silently if
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