28/10/2004 @ 23:58 UTC
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org's most popular events and metros - NYC is, by far, the most active on the site
#28/10/2004 @ 23:14 UTC
kellan : "this is why liberals suck worse than conservatives. In their hamfisted attempts to do good, they take all of the fun out of out liberation." - On the impending death of NYC Critical Mass. Sad. I've seen several CritMasses go this way. #
#28/10/2004 @ 23:11 UTC
kellan : "Holy Fucking Prometheus on a Pogo Stick" - Aidan on 'geography is biology', and predicting the new 'Hobbit' discovery. Plus got to love that title. #
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28/10/2004 @ 23:05 UTC
kellan : Languid - a web service for identifying languages. - TextCat algo + unicode smarts + web service. #
cobra libre : languid: a statistical language identifier - wow! i tried vietnamese, french, even english [via] #
François Hodierne : Languid - a web service for identifying languages. #
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28/10/2004 @ 23:01 UTC
kellan : "We're going on 18 years now, give or take a few"..since the last election - At first, there were terrorists, and then extreme hurricanes, and the computer glitches, then some turtles got into the ballot boxes in Kansas. #
Aquarion : The Eternal Election (Probably fiction) - The Eternal Election
#28/10/2004 @ 22:58 UTC
deusx : Wired News: You Broke It, You Fix It - "The iMac G5 is completely user serviceable." Huh, that's either pretty cool, or pretty slick of apple to trick customers into self-servicing :) Personally, I like that the hood isn't welded completely shut.
#28/10/2004 @ 22:55 UTC
deusx : Product Details: Tempo tag - "the tempo does none of that. it's simply a wearable glimpse of time" Slick.
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28/10/2004 @ 22:11 UTC
Rod Begbie : Was Darwin Wrong? - National Geographic helpfully provide the two-letter rhymes-with-dough answer [via] #
kellan : National Geographic: Was Darwin wrong? - No. #
Andy Baio : National Geographic on Evolution - Q: Was Darwin wrong? A: NO. [via] [via]
deusx : Iron Circus: Official November 2004 National Geographic Appreciation Station. - "Yes, it can be measured in the laboratory. Shut up."
#28/10/2004 @ 22:07 UTC
Rod Begbie : David Ortiz on the Wheaties box - Mere weeks after Pedro received the same honour. #
#28/10/2004 @ 22:04 UTC
cobra libre : ba-lue uh-lack-shun ba-lues-are - limited time only #
#28/10/2004 @ 22:01 UTC
cobra libre : little know ye who's comin' - beats springsteen #
#28/10/2004 @ 21:58 UTC
plasticbag : Buffy-creator Joss Whedon quits television production and shuts down Mutant Enemy - "I have a bitter taste in my mouth with where TV has gone in the past five years," he told Variety, labeling the reality TV craze "loathsome." (thanks to Kerry for the heads up)
deusx : E! Online News - "Buffy" Brain Drained - Joss Whedon fleeing television. Drat.
#28/10/2004 @ 21:55 UTC
Andy Baio : Grand Theftendo - amazing homebrew port of Grand Theft Auto III to the NES! [via] [via]
#28/10/2004 @ 20:58 UTC
cameron : New species of human discovered ("Flores man")
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28/10/2004 @ 20:55 UTC
Andy Baio : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - Florida's touchscreen voting, Lynndie England, Nader, and more
Jeremy Zawodny : scary bush inspired costumes - scary bush inspired costumes: this is awesome
deusx : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - Oh so wrong.
Rod Begbie : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - "Transform Daddy's little girl into America's NEW favorite bad girl, Private First Class Lyndie England." [via] #
#28/10/2004 @ 19:58 UTC
Richard Rutter : Bush website block - Access denied to us naughty foreigners (filed under War).
#28/10/2004 @ 19:02 UTC
François Nonnenmacher : Sixth Circuit Blocks DMCA Use for Printer Cartridges
#28/10/2004 @ 18:58 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : cell socket - cell socket: one step forward, two steps back
#28/10/2004 @ 18:55 UTC
Andy Baio : Cluster Ballooning - also: the tragic story of Larry Walters [via] [via]
#28/10/2004 @ 18:04 UTC
Steve Cook : Joel Schumacher's "Phantom of the Opera" - If that phrase doesn't give you chills, please return to Bizarro Earth.
#28/10/2004 @ 18:01 UTC
Dan Cederholm : Mission Accomplished - 'This will be the final, regular post to the Bambino's Curse weblog.'
#28/10/2004 @ 17:58 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : feedster hacks - feedster hacks: just what you would expect
#28/10/2004 @ 17:55 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : more on mysql max table size - more on mysql max table size: from kevin burton
Kayode Okeyode : Max Table size in MySQL
#28/10/2004 @ 14:01 UTC
deusx : Strange Horizons Fiction: The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard - Charles M. Schulz meets H. P. Lovecraft. Really good.
#28/10/2004 @ 13:58 UTC
deusx : Good Bad Attitude - "It would be ironic if, as hackers fear, recent measures intended to protect national security and intellectual property turned out to be a missile aimed right at what makes America successful."
#28/10/2004 @ 13:55 UTC
deusx : Gopher: pygopherd - "Welcome to PyGopherd -- the advanced, multi-protocol Gopher server!"
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28/10/2004 @ 12:08 UTC
Isofarro : On GMail and DHTML architecture again - The idea is to fetch an HTML skeleton, decide what content you need, fetch that (as XML), and cache it wherever you get a chance. Render incrementally.
deusx : Koranteng's Toli: On GMail and DHTML architecture again - "Everyone with a clue should be trying to leverage the browser and that, in essence, is all they are doing."
#28/10/2004 @ 12:05 UTC
Isofarro : Web content management depends on trust - The foundation of a brand is built by being useful and trustworthy.
#28/10/2004 @ 12:02 UTC
Isofarro : WaiZilla - Mozilla extension for WAI testing - by Tim Roberts
#28/10/2004 @ 11:58 UTC
Richard Rutter : Hicksdesign resigns - And it is good (but the sideways tree made me feel giddy) (filed under Design thinking).
#28/10/2004 @ 11:55 UTC
Phil Gyford : Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Robots.txt Query Exclusion. - HotWired launched ten years ago yesterday but you can't see older versions on archive.org because HotWired have blocked it from archiving their site.
#28/10/2004 @ 08:58 UTC
Andy Baio : Flickr users cover tonight's lunar eclipse - instant reporting, just add community [via] [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 08:55 UTC
Andy Baio : Tron, the 12-Minute Rock Opera - featuring Brendon Small of Home Movies fame on guitar [via] [via]
deusx : TRON: The Rock Opera
Nelson Minar : Tron: the Rock Opera - Great find by Waxy
#28/10/2004 @ 07:55 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : web feeds, blogs, and search engines - web feeds, blogs, and search engines: a report from the ses conference
#28/10/2004 @ 05:33 UTC
Steve Cook : FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform - I think some GI Joes used to live on one of these.
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28/10/2004 @ 05:29 UTC
Paul Ford : Christian Retail - "It looks like Santa puked."
#28/10/2004 @ 05:26 UTC
Paul Ford : Top 100 American Speeches
jkottke : Top 100 American speeches - "I Have a Dream" tops the list.
#28/10/2004 @ 05:20 UTC
Paul Ford : Russian Vonnegut Club not Succeeding - "In America, it's only white trash who upgrade,"
#28/10/2004 @ 05:17 UTC
Paul Ford : Documentaries about poor people and pentecostals
#28/10/2004 @ 04:58 UTC
Paul Ford : History of a failed music project
#28/10/2004 @ 04:08 UTC
kellan : Are photos the backdoor to build sharing services into the iPod? - Will iPod's evolve into the physical avatar-hub of your personal line of sight ad hoc network? #
plasticbag : Mr Webb explores the possibility of iPod as a kind of wireless personal informational avatar - "Put it in your pocket, run a radio station for the people near your desk, or the people you pass on the street. But the music sharing, because really it's a music device, has to start with photos, that's the big excuse. A long term plan."
#28/10/2004 @ 04:05 UTC
kellan : The Frank Gehry Furniture Collection #
#28/10/2004 @ 04:01 UTC
deusx : MyFi: The World's First XM Portable - http://www.satelliteradioblog.com - "Delphi and XM just announced the MyFi, the world's first portable satellite radio." It's like a satellite iPod, sorta.
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28/10/2004 @ 03:58 UTC
deusx : ASPN : Python Cookbook : Cache decorator in python 2.4 - Slick use of new Python decorators to memoize results of a calculation in a function
Nelson Minar : PyDecorator: memoize - Clever use of decorators
Simon Willison : Cache decorator in Python 2.4 - Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature. (via) [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 03:55 UTC
Andy Baio : New font to be used on US highway signs - Clearview is a bit Meta-like
jkottke : Typographica thread on Clearview, the new typeface for US highways
Rod Begbie : Clearview: A New Typeface for US Highways - New font designed for US Highway Road signs. Massive amounts of research and legibility testing went into it. I'm fascinated that there's a different version of the font for light and dark background. [via] #
#28/10/2004 @ 03:01 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : hollister pilot and his l-39 lost in washington? - hollister pilot and his l-39 lost in washington?: i bet he did not have an elt
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28/10/2004 @ 02:58 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : the secret service visits an lj user - the secret service visits an lj user: holy crap
Andy Baio : Secret Service visits a Livejournal user - blog rule #36: never say you're going to kill the president [via] [via]
Manuzhai : anniesj: a word to the wise - LiveJournal-user had the Secret Service visit her because of a Bush rant.
#28/10/2004 @ 02:55 UTC
Andy Baio : Milner's Descriptive Atlas from 1850 - fascinating and pioneering information design [via] [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 01:58 UTC
Phil Gyford : Copy, Right? - MP3 blog devoted to cover versions. Don't know why no one did it before!
#28/10/2004 @ 01:55 UTC
Graham Leuschke : del.icio.us/gleuschk - I'm adding links here for now. hopefully one day they'll all be integrated and tagged and stuff
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28/10/2004 @ 00:55 UTC
Erik Benson : Scroll down to see the Robot Co-op on Amazon.com - Neat new feature on Amazon.
#28/10/2004 @ 00:04 UTC
Manuzhai : Band atoning for sewage incident - $ 100,000 dollar to environmentalists because they dumped their shit in a river.
#28/10/2004 @ 00:01 UTC
Manuzhai : Silktide SiteScore - Interesting tool that automatically rates several key aspects of your site.
#28/10/2004 @ 00:01 UTC
Steve Cook : Genetically-engineered alergen-free cats - I've seen enough monster movies to know how this will turn out.
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