6/10/2005 @ 23:55 UTC
jkottke : Peak foliage map of the United States - Peak foliage map of the United States. This weekend is looking good!
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6/10/2005 @ 22:55 UTC
jkottke : Brad Pitt, architect - Photo of Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry building an architectural model together. What, you didn't know that Brad really wants to be an architect?
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6/10/2005 @ 21:57 UTC
Linkorama : Wondir bought by Revolution Healthcare - Wondir bought by Steve Case's latest business enterprise
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6/10/2005 @ 21:57 UTC
Linkorama : Ready for Web 2.0? - "Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people," Mayfield said.
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6/10/2005 @ 21:56 UTC
Philippe Janvier : What is the Semantic Web ? - Une introduction au web sémantique. [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 21:55 UTC
jkottke : Searchable William Shakespeare - Everything and Nothing rounds up a list of searchable versions of the work of that most famous of English wordsmiths, William Shakespeare. The public domain rocks.
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6/10/2005 @ 21:55 UTC
jkottke : Franz Ferdinand's blog - Franz Ferdinand** has a blog and you don't probably do too. ** The band, not the archduke.
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6/10/2005 @ 20:56 UTC
Andy Baio : Kottke says Verisign bought Weblogs.com for $5M - a match made in hell [via]
Linkorama : Weblogs.com sold to Verisign? - The latest report is that Dave Winer has sold weblogs.com to Verisign (~$5 million is the figure being bandied about).
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6/10/2005 @ 20:55 UTC
Philippe Janvier : Tiny Greasemonkey script for Flickr page titles - Pour ceux qui n'aiment pas le "photo sharing". [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 19:55 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Give up control - A-frickin'-men.
factoryjoe : Give up control, by Jeffrey Veen - All of these things are probably true of the work you do online: * Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience. * Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended. * Everything you
Linkorama : Give up control - The Web’s lesson is that we have to let go, to exert as little control as necessary. What are the fewest necessary rules that we can provide to shape the experience? Where do people, tools, and content come together? How do we let go in a way that’s m
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6/10/2005 @ 19:55 UTC
jkottke : The origins and common usage of British swear words - The origins and common usage of British swear words. "Both Oxford and London boasted districts called 'Gropecunte Lane', in reference to the prostitutes that worked there. The Oxford lane was later renamed the slightly less-contentious Magpie Lane, while
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 UTC
Andy Baio : AOL buys Weblogs Inc., including Engadget - I heard $40 million, but take it with salt; seems like an unusually expensive content play
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 UTC
jkottke : Almost 500 pounds of Legos up for auction on eBay - What the hell? Almost 500 pounds of Legos up for auction on eBay. "This is my collection for the past 25 years, it's time to go." Bid stands at ~$6800. (thx, karl)
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 UTC
jkottke : Unusual words in non-English languages - 20 unusual non-English words sent in by readers of the BBC Magazine (in response to this article about a new book on unusual words). Plimpplampplettere, the Dutch word for skipping stones, is sublime.
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6/10/2005 @ 16:56 UTC
Milo Vermeulen : 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips - 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips [via]
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6/10/2005 @ 16:55 UTC
deusx : Piss Off Door Mat - UrbanOutfitters.com - "Seriously sturdy, with a non-slip backing and subtle Anglophile-centric message for visitors. In the end, they can't say they weren't warned."
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6/10/2005 @ 16:55 UTC
Philippe Janvier : Broken Windows of Blogs - "The minute you open your blog or journal for comments, it's your responsibility to monitor what's being posted. It's even more important to nuke junk as soon as it appears". [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 UTC
deusx : Welcome to mimir.ik.nu - "This site is part of a Jabber enabled news service called Mimr."
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 UTC
Philippe Janvier : Tips From Top Taggers - "After a few months of storing bookmarks online with tools like del.icio.us, many people find the tags they've used to categorize them are a hopeless mess. So what are the best methods for getting your tag taxonomy in order ?" [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 UTC
jkottke : New Salon design - Salon redesigns...here's a letter from the editor explaining it all. (thx, ryan)
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 UTC
kayodeok : Steve Ballmer Details Microsoft’s Security Strategy - Microsoft Client Protection will help protect business desktops, laptops and file servers by providing unified protection against emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 UTC
Richard Rutter : Designing for the Sandbox - Peter Merholz’s blog on Web 2.0 and new thinking in design.
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 UTC
Philippe Janvier : Bulletproof Logos - "Styling the alt text in Firefox and Opera." [via] #
Paul Hammond : SimpleBits | Bulletproof Logos - a nice way of keeping the visual hierarchy of things consistent, even in the absence of images
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 UTC
Philippe Janvier : Tag, You're It : Best Bookmarker - Champion du monde de bookmarking :) [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 UTC
gleuschk : WESTERN UNION "92 CODE" & WOOD'S "TELEGRAPHIC NUMERALS" - for Kord
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 UTC
jkottke : What's the funniest word ever? - What's the funniest word ever? I don't know about funny, but I've always enjoyed saying "Goethe".
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 UTC
jkottke : Dot com bubble 2.0 - Scott Rosenberg on the Web 2.0 conference and the new bubble: "it seems likely that a certain number of people will get rich, a certain amount of money will be wasted, several important new companies and technologies will emerge and some indeterminate num
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 UTC
deusx : Warrenellis.com - Cow Kicks Shit Out Of Dogs, Becomes Warren's Sacred Animal - "This sequence of photos is quite astonishing. Particularly the heroic final shot."
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 UTC
deusx : 'p2p is leagal its already bought its in the air' | The Register - "Piracy is big fat guys manufacturing fake CDs in Mexico and selling them at swap meets."
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 UTC
deusx : Microsoft FAT patent rejected - again | The Register - "The case had been raised by open source defenders who feared that Microsoft was preparing a legal offensive against Linux based on enforcement of intellectual property rights."
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6/10/2005 @ 12:55 UTC
kayodeok : Tag, You're It: Best Bookmarker - Bookmarking online content and categorizing it with "tags" is fast becoming an important way to surf the web. Robert Andrews talks to the most influential tagger and looks at a new search engine based on social bookmarking
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6/10/2005 @ 12:55 UTC
kayodeok : Tips From Top Taggers - According to CollaborativeRank's most influential bookmarkers, the key is to tag sparingly and with focus, using words that are highly descriptive
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6/10/2005 @ 11:55 UTC
Milo Vermeulen : play a game of Flickr Memry [via]
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6/10/2005 @ 08:55 UTC
kayodeok : Reducing browser privileges - A simple yet little-known approach exists for users to avoid many of these vulnerabilities in any web browser. It is a novel tool called "Drop My Rights," created by Microsoft's Michael Howard
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6/10/2005 @ 08:55 UTC
kayodeok : Domain hack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that uses parts other than the SLD (second level domain) or third level domain to create the full title of the domain name
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6/10/2005 @ 07:55 UTC
jimray : Bacon of the month club - Adding to Christmas list...
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6/10/2005 @ 04:56 UTC
Matthew M. Boedicker : geektool and bash one-liners
deusx : Mac Geekery - Geektool and Bash One-Liners - "It's already replaced half my Dashboard I find the displayed information simultaneously more noticible and less in the way."
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6/10/2005 @ 04:56 UTC
Matthew M. Boedicker : print out disposable Scrabble game
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6/10/2005 @ 04:55 UTC
jkottke : Weblogs, Inc. bought by AOL? - Weblogs, Inc. bought by AOL? If so, this is a perfect match.
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6/10/2005 @ 02:56 UTC
Linkorama : Web 2.0 launchpad roundup - "Mayfield is force"
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6/10/2005 @ 02:56 UTC
Linkorama : Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org - Congrats
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6/10/2005 @ 02:55 UTC
plasticbag : Cleaner caught playing dirty on the net - "Household products usually promise to help get rid of dirt, but one leading brand has been shamed into cleaning up its own act after an internet marketing campaign backfired spectacularly."
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6/10/2005 @ 01:55 UTC
Simon Willison : On RSS and the coming wave of content theft - A reason to avoid commercial-use-allowed Creative Commons licenses.
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6/10/2005 @ 00:56 UTC
Linkorama : AJAX Powers Web 2.0 Growth - But where's the business model for AJAX-powered applications?
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 UTC
plasticbag : Katie Holmes is pregnant with Tom Cruise's demon child - God this is creepy and wrong. I mean Katie Holmes was meant for Cal! He told me that years ago...
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 UTC
plasticbag : A review with screenshots of the BBC's iMP - currently released to a trial for a few thousand British citizens... - Generally favourable response so far. Interested in what else people make of it.
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 UTC
Andy Baio : Synchroedit, open-source real-time multiuser web editor - whew, that's a mouthful; sounds like the open-source version of Jot Live
kayodeok : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always
Jeremy Zawodny : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit: "SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 UTC
jkottke : E =mc^2 - Brian Greene on Einstein's most famous equation, E =mc^2. When he finally gets around to it in the middle of the article, Greene's got a pretty good layman's explanation of what the formula actually means.
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