13/05/2009 @ 23:00 UTC
Andy Baio : SNL's Casey Wilson Reads Internet Comments About Her - shenanigans! the Patton Oswalt comment was written by a Funny or Die employee [via]
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philgyford : YouTube - Unit Four Plus Two -- Concrete and Clay - 1965(?) video for the song, filmed on the building site that was to become the Barbican.
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philgyford : William Heath's blog " Customer service - His amazing battle to get Orange to stop chasing him for debts incurred by someone who started an account in his name while he was in another part of the country. Stunningly poor and dumb service.
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philgyford : The Straight Choice | The election leaflet project - I'm slightly unsure about the "why" of this project but it has a great pedigree so I'm sure it will be a Good Thing.
Simon Willison : The Straight Choice | The election leaflet project - The Straight Choice | The election leaflet project. Nice crowdsourcing app by Richard Pope, Francis Irving and Julian Todd—UK political leaflets are hard to keep tabs on due to the way they are distributed over small geographical areas, so this site e
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philgyford : BBC News | Programmes | Newsnight | Stephen Fry dismisses MPs' expenses row - Exactly what I needed. Stephen Fry putting the infuriating and angry-making MPs' expenses stuff into perspective. It's a very bad thing but there are more important things to get angry about. (via Tom Taylor)
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philgyford : How do I stop the "Mailbox is at 90% of quota" alerts? - No, really, how do I do this in Thunderbird? Anyone? Or anyone know somewhere else I can ask where I might get an answer? It's driving me nuts enough to consider switching to Apple Mail.
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Simon Willison : Game Web 2.Over? - Game Web 2.Over?. Meg Pickard took the 2005 Web 2.0 logo collage and updated it to show which companies have folded and which have been bought.
Andy Baio : Updating the Web 2.0 logo collage for 2009 - tracking how many of the original sites are dead or acquired; or, in the case of WebJay, both [via]
#13/05/2009 @ 21:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Sentinel - Stately-looking slab from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Be sure to check out the italic variant, too. Now if you’ll kindly pardon me, I’m off to ask the cat to hide my wallet. Good day. ∞
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Just a Moment clock by Reddish Studio - Just a Moment clock by Reddish Studio, "a cross between analog and digital representations of time." Love the simplicity of it.
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : Star Trek lens flares - I thought it looked fantastic
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : Blizzard's new MMO - It's going to be brand new IP, whole new world, etc. That's ambitious.
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : LOST-inspired Doomsday Terminal for the iPhone - more interesting than the "gameplay" is that it allows anonymous messages between users
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Amazon Kindling - Rob Cockerham made a laser-engraved wooden Kindle
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Gizmodo's untold story of how three interns stole NASA's moon rocks - this 2004 LA Times article explains the background, but skipped details of the theft [via]
#13/05/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : God gave me cookies - I think I'd be inclined to listen to salesmen and missionaries if they brought snacks
#13/05/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : The Line Length Misconception - The Line Length Misconception. "Classically-trained designers, and really every professional designer, should know the old adage that long line lengths can have a counterproductive impact on readability.... But research doesn't support this claim, at leas [via]
#13/05/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
cobra libre : U.S. State Department travel information for Guatemala #
#13/05/2009 @ 13:00 UTC
Simon Willison : South's Design - South’s Design. Andrew Godwin explains why South resorts to parsing your models.py file in order to construct information about for creating automatic migrations.
#13/05/2009 @ 13:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Drug seizures: how pure is street cocaine? - Drug seizures: how pure is street cocaine?. Neat story on the Guardian Datablog using graphs from Timetric to show that while the purity of cocaine seized by customs over the past five years has stayed constant, the purity of drugs seized by the police
#13/05/2009 @ 11:00 UTC
Richard Rutter : RDFa for HTML Authors - A work in progress, but already with some good examples.
#13/05/2009 @ 04:00 UTC
gleuschk : Habitat Chronicles: Smart people can rationalize anything - smart people tend to systematically overestimate the value of being smart
#13/05/2009 @ 04:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Nick Montfort on extremely minimalist games - you just lost The Game
#13/05/2009 @ 04:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Making old Trek look like new Trek - everything's better with lens flare [via]
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13/05/2009 @ 04:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Google launches Search Options, date ordering for everyone - a nice companion to Twitter Search, looking forward to seeing how it evolves
#13/05/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Suzanne Ciani composes the electronic soundtrack for Xenon pinball in 1979 - also: Suzanne demonstrating sound synthesis on 3-2-1 Contact [via]
#13/05/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
nelson : Hadoop petabyte sort - Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16 hours. Compare Google's 6 hour petabyte sort, but then that's not open source
#13/05/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
nelson : Avro - Genius Doug Cutting working on a simple serialization framework
#13/05/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Pogo's Wonderland, free album of Alice in Wonderland mashups - I never knew the creator of the famous Alice video made more Alice songs
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