4 month ago
philgyford : The Orwell Prize - George Orwell's diaries daily, Pepys style. Lacking the year on each entry -- too much '2008' very little '1938' around. Quite a random linking strategy in entries, but it's early days.
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10 month ago
nelson : Keynes' sex diaries - Fascinating insight into records he kept of his sexual encounters
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24 month ago
jkottke : Robert Shields is the author of the world's longest diary - Robert Shields is the author of the world's longest diary. It runs to 35 million words and he wrote about everything he did. Everything. "3:30-3:45 I was at the keyboard of the IBM Wheelwriter making entries for the diary."
philgyford : Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » The World’s Longest Diary - For me to come back to whenever I start documenting my life just that little bit too obsessively. (via Boing Boing)
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Yahoo! have only gone and bought upcoming.org - Now that's pretty interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. Seems like everyone's going to work with Yahoo! nowadays.
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42 month ago
jkottke : On the art of the movie trailer - "There are few more cynical forms of art, or of advertising. Trailers are full of deception. Because what they want you to do is to see the movie they want you to see, not the movie that it is."
plasticbag : To cut a long story short - a Guardian feature about the cynicism of trailers and how comfortable they are lying about the films they represent - Not sure I agree with all of it - a trailer that effectively sells a film but portrays it incorrectly, can bring the wrong audiences or spoil the film for the right audiencs. This affects word-of-mouth. Film flops.
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44 month ago
philgyford : Dracula Blogged - Another historical/fictional diary as weblog... Bram Stoker's Dracula, just starting.
mbertier : Dracula Blogged - Bram Stoker's vampire novel, published by its own calendar [via] #
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46 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Office 12 Preview 1 - Microsoft's biggest competition in the office productivity space, ironically, comes from within: Older versions of the Office suite, including Office 2000, XP, and 2003, are often cited by customers as being good enough
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46 month ago
kayodeok : The Road to Windows Longhorn 2005 - Longhorn will be released to manufacturing in May 2006, according to senior Microsoft executives, though other interim dates could change
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plasticbag : New favourite "Have I Got New For You"-style guest publication of the week - this week it's The Dairy Reporter! - Includes stories like, "A Tetra Pak subsidiary has found a dipping and coating solution for novelty ice creams, which it hopes will eliminate sub-standard ice cream coatings ? welcome news for ice cream manufacturers..."
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53 month ago
Phil Gyford : Techquila Shots: Topic Mapping Pepys' Diary - Creating XML topic maps of Pepys' Diary entries. This makes my head hurt in a very good way.
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53 month ago
Phil Gyford : Pepys' Diary: The story so far is now up to date - Don't have time for a dose of Pepys every day? How about an RSS feed of monthly summaries?
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56 month ago
phil : Samuel Pepys roughly Photoshopped to be a modern businessman - By a Pepys' Diary reader.
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