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joshua : Togelius: Automatic Game Design
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nelson : Roxanne by Songsmith - Vocals from The Police fed through the auto-harmony Microsoft doodad
Andy Baio : Microsoft Songsmith takes on The Police's "Roxanne" - more classics here, including Wonderwall and What's Going On [via]
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Rod Begbie : jQuery SWFObject Plugin - Quite handy in its own right, but make sure and hit play to hear the "JQuery SWFObject Plugin" theme song. [via] #
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gleuschk : THE DOCTOR FOX LECTURE: A PARADIGM OF EDUCATIONAL SEDUCTION - wow, I missed this
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gleuschk : Report - Judgment Day - NYTimes.com - living and dying by student evaluations
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15/01/2009 @ 22:00 GMT
gleuschk : God Plays Dice: The synonym-following game - the synonym graph has a monstrous component. for some reason I find this totally shocking.
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Andy Baio : Dopplr's visualization of Barack Obama's travels in 2008 - they also generating these annual reports for every Dopplr user [via]
Simon Willison : Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama... - Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama.... So classy it hurts. I’d love to know what library they used to generate the PDF.
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deusx : Hummus Recipes - "Everything You Wanted to Know About Hummus but Were Afraid to Ask"
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deusx : Walnut Hummus - Hummus Recipes - "Walnut hummus is a little known gem among hummus varieties. Try walnut hummus for a tasty treat!"
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deusx : Pita Chips Recipe - How to Make Pita Chips - "These pita chips are perfect fot dipping! Try them with dips like hummus and baba ghannouj, or with salads like tabouleh. Or eat pita chips by themselves! "
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deusx : Hummus Recipe | Simply Recipes - "This basic hummus recipe calls for using canned garbanzo beans. I've made hummus using dried beans, soaking them, cooking them, etc. but the results just weren't as good. The canned beans actually mash up pretty well."
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deusx : Jalapeno Hummus - Allrecipes - "In a blender or food processor, mix the garbanzo beans, jalapeno peppers and reserved juice, tahini, garlic, and lemon juice. Season with cumin, curry powder, and crushed red pepper. Blend until smooth."
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deusx : Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus Recipe @ CDKitchen.com :: it's what's cooking online! - "Place garlic in a food processor and process until minced, about 10 seconds. Add beans, lime juice and salt. Process into a puree. With the processor running, slowly add olive oil in a steady stream through the feed tube. Process until mixture thick
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Jeremy Zawodny : Some little known facts about Innodb Insert Buffer - Some little known facts about Innodb Insert Buffer: good info from Peter
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Jeremy Zawodny : pidstat - pidstat: a really hand tool for looking at per-process I/O
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Jeremy Zawodny : Craigslist rotting on the vine? - Craigslist rotting on the vine?: interesting discussion about what we do right and what people would like to see us fix
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Jeremy Zawodny : Ask reddit: What LaTeX resume template do you use? - Ask reddit: What LaTeX resume template do you use?: it's old skool. I like it.
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Andy Baio : Dennis Crowley on the death of Dodgeball - the site's original cofounder vows to build a replacement after it's closed for good [via]
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Greg Storey : Getting a jump on HTML 5. - Cameron made a list of resources, go check it out.
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Greg Storey : Jeff has a few photos of the setup for the Inauguration. - This one's pretty crappy.
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Linkorama : Doing What You Love: Ernest Hemingway - You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again…nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is th
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Linkorama : 8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009 - No, the big focus this year is going to be partnering with the marketplace over the network (customer communities, cloud sourcing, and crowdsourcing), looking for major new opportunities for low cost growth, and just doing more with less.
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Linkorama : Salesforce.com Launches The Service Cloud - A Customer Service SaaS Application
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nelson : Funny condom ad - Sex is funny. Balloon animal sex is hilarious.
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deusx : Wonderland: Cross-stitch Zelda map - "This game was very important to me. Someone spent 4 months cross-stitching this map, so I guess it was to them too. Amazing stuff."
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15/01/2009 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Superuseless Superpowers - though nothing really beats the powers of Section 8
Milo Vermeulen : superuseless superpowers [via]
Rod Begbie : superuseless superpowers - Oh, what I wouldn't give to be "13th Bullet Bulletproof"… [via] #
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jonhicks : Seven-Spice Pilau with Coriander Butter recipe - Waitrose.com
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Jeremy Zawodny : Matt, what's your favorite desktop twitter client? - Matt, what's your favorite desktop twitter client?: "IT'S A TIMEWASTING FIRE HOSE OF INFORMATION."
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Cameron Moll : Prado's paintings in Google Earth - Mirko Humbert: "Google has just announced a new layer in Google Earth. When this new layer is activated, you can browse a selection of famous paintings from the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Once you’ve chosen a painting, you can take a very close look
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Cameron Moll : Mobile Web Design Trends for 2009 - Smashing Magazine's Mobile Web Design Trends for 2009.
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Rob Swindell and the Synchronet Museum - "One thing that’s important to demarcate for Rob over a lot of my other interviewees was that he was one of the few BBS software authors still actively writing and maintaining his software. In fact, he still maintains it to the present day. Add on
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15/01/2009 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Google Code Blog: Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor - "As we mentioned last April, we are in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. After the migration is complete, we will release the new open source Jaiku Engine project on Google Code under the Apache License. While Google will no lon
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deusx : Steam Update Adds In-game Web Browsing - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads - "Valve today released an update to Steam that includes the final version of the in-game web browser from December's beta patch. "
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15/01/2009 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : InnoDB is faster, tcmalloc is nice - InnoDB is faster, tcmalloc is nice: interesting results
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Richard Rutter : Grid Designer - Another browser-based grid builder, this time with export feature.
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nelson : More Google trimming - Cutting some unsuccessful or redundant products. Including, sadly, Jaiku and Dodgeball
Andy Baio : Google closes Dodgeball, Google Video uploads, Google Notebook, Google Catalogs - and they're ending development on Jaiku and open-sourcing the code
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deusx : Spider Eggs Hatch In Bush's Brain | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "President Bush collapsed to the floor of the Oval Office during a meeting with advisers when spiderlings hatched from thousands of egg sacs affixed between the hemispheres of his brain, according to a White House memo released Monday. The spiders se
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Eric Meyer : War as child's play - I can only quote Jeffrey Zeldman: "If even one child gets killed, you're doing it wrong."
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joshua : Proper backspace/delete in iTerm, Screen, and Irssi - brybot :: Bryan Rite and the Alkaloid Networks
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Jeremy Zawodny : Girls Piss Me Off - Girls Piss Me Off: OMG that is so true
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Jeremy Zawodny : The $300 Million Button - The $300 Million Button: also "Register Considered Harmful"
Greg Storey : The $300M dollar button. - Must read. Must bookmark.
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Jeremy Zawodny : MySQL Bugs: #16979: AUTO_INC lock in InnoDB works a table level lock - MySQL Bugs: #16979: AUTO_INC lock in InnoDB works a table level lock: ugh. this keeps biting us too. time to upgrade soon?
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nelson : Robots per capita - Great visualization of who has the most robots / worker
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Simon Willison : Localbuilder - Localbuilder. Gareth Rushgrove’s neat little Python continuous integration tool—it watches a directory for changes, then runs a command when it spots any.
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Andy Baio : Melodie, the one-year-old videogame expert - hell, I didn't even know five of them [via]
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Andy Baio : Legends of Zork - the Zork franchise is being revived as a browser-based MMO from the creator of Trukz
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Andy Baio : DeWitt Clinton takes a Twitter sample - he estimates about 23% of the userbase is active and connected, about 1.2M people [via]
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