Residuals
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Brian’s Foot.
As of this week, my brother Brian is able to walk for the first time in 2 years without the aid of a wheelchair, walker, or crutches. What a great week!
On June 21st, 2005, Brian was in a motorcycle accident, suffering broken bones, severed ligaments, nerves, and arteries in both legs. Thanks to a number of surgeries, a lot of rehab, and a lot of prayer, Brian was miraculously able to keep both legs.
Here is a link to all of the articles posted to Jayber about Brian’s recovery.
Since the accident, Brian has gone through a roller coaster of physical therapy and recovery — too many ups and downs to list here. However, due to one more surgery a few weeks ago, he’s now able to put all of his weight on both legs, and walk without aids.
Although this is by no means the end of the healing process, it is a major testament to God’s healing hand, and a significant milestone in Brian’s recovery. Congratulations bro!
Here’s a picture of Brian and I from Brian and Jill’s wedding in 2004:
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Niles Wallace Benson.
Niles Wallace Benson was born on December 28th at 2:17 am and we couldn’t be more glad. He was 7 lbs 10 oz, and was 20 3/4 inches long. Mandy has some pictures on her blog — here’s one of my favorites:
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Christmas at the Schumann’s.
This year, we had a family Christmas at the Schumann’s. Unfortunately, Mom, Dad, and Karen couldn’t make it due to illness. Here’s a quick video that Mandy put together of the festivities:
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Building Notice.
Building management just posted a note disallowing the “extended use” of bathrooms on floors other than the one we work on. Discrimination! Exhibit A:
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Senior Adult Church Hip-Hop Choir.
Here’s something I didn’t plan on finding today: a senior adult church hip-hop choir called Funky Fresh Seniors. They don’t seem too engaged at the beginning with Eminem’s lyrical work, but they definitely warm up nicely to Nelly at the end.
- 0:20 - “Loose Yourself”, Eminem.
- 1:15 - “Ridin’ Dirty”, Chamillionaire.
- 1:45 - “Hey Ya”, Outkast.
- 3:10 - “Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me”, Pussycat Dolls.
- 3:40 - “Can’t Touch This”, MC Hammer.
- 4:05 - “It’s getting hot in here”, Nelly.
Bonus: they’re available for weddings, private parties, and bar mitzvahs! I only have one question: what church approves of their elders singing “It’s getting hot in here, let’s take off all our robes”? This is highly disturbing on multiple levels.
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Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head.
My favorite photo of the day: Eddie Murphy’s giant head, traveling down the interstate.
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There’s no such thing as a free book.
Interesting article from Edward Champion on Michael Hyatt’s recent Book Review Blogger Program, which gives people free books from Thomas Nelson Publishing in exchange for writing a 200+ word review: There’s no such thing as a free book. Champion argues that the program is inherently flawed:
While Hyatt’s marketing strategy appears to have yielded results, there remains the more troubling question of what this means for the blogosphere. Will Thomas Nelson stop sending books to those who write negative reviews? Will the publisher demand 400-word reviews a few months from now? Will other publishers begin setting more extraordinary terms for hotter titles? And, most importantly, will the blogosphere ever understand that surrendering to marketing forces simply isn’t a substitute for journalistic integrity?
Personally, I’m confused about why this is a big deal. Hyatt doesn’t require that reviews are positive. Instead, he says that reviews can be “positive, negative, or somewhere in between.” Don’t journalists get free books all the time for writing reviews? Why is this any different?
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Wendy and Shelly.
This weekend, we had a great trip to Chicago for a baby shower with Mandy’s family and friends. I’m still working through the pictures we took, but here’s a nice one of Wendy and Shelly:
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Grade School.
In response to my friend Jenny, here are 6 “random things” about me. To give it a twist, I’ll choose one from each year in grade school:
- 1st grade. I learned what it felt like to covet as I desperately desired my friend’s remote-controlled A-Team van.
- 2nd grade. While trying to beat a girl to the water fountain, I chipped my front tooth on a set of concrete stairs. I got it fixed 20 years later.
- 3rd grade. I got my tongue stuck to a frosty pole at the top of a slide. My taste buds were subsequently ripped off as the person behind me impatiently forced me down the slide.
- 4th grade. I stole a spot on the swing set from a friend. Her punishment for me: severe whiplash and 6-weeks in a neck brace.
- 5th grade. I was transferred to advanced English. After failing to wrap my mind around the definition of a paragraph, I was transferred back the following day.
- 6th grade. I stopped wetting the bed.
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In the Likely Event of My Posthumous Fame.
Another gem from McSweeney’s: In the Likely Event of My Posthumous Fame
My birth, death, and high-school graduation should be celebrated with a feast, a day of mourning, and a Sadie Hawkins dance, respectively.
At the Sadie Hawkins dance, the women ought to feel a subtle, needling pressure to pick older brothers. Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are” should be played at least twice. All kisses will be French.
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Trapped Fly.
I just read a portion of When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris 1 on the bus. I came across this section, and couldn’t help but smile.
I was at my desk one afternoon, writing a letter, when I heard a faint buzzing sound, like a tiny car switching into a higher gear. Curious, I went to the window, and there, in a web, I saw what looked like an angry raisin. It was a trapped fly, and as I bent forward to get a closer look, a spider rushed forth and carried it screaming to a little woven encampment situated between the wall and the window casing. It was like watching someone you hate getting mugged: three seconds of hard-core violence, and when it was over you just wanted it to happen again.
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The last days of David Foster Wallace.
The last days of David Foster Wallace.
When David was 5, his mother recalls, he decided that he had two careers to look forward to. He would be a professional football player, for one. In the off-season, while the other players were recuperating or doing whatever it is that pro football players do when they’re not running or passing or slamming their bodies into each other, he would be a neurosurgeon. His mother has no idea how, at 5, her son might have heard about neurosurgeons or what they were or did, but he had. The first day of his medical career, he promised his mom, he would take out all of her frayed nerves and fix them. “Somehow he knew about neurosurgeons,” she says, “and he knew that my nerves needed fixing.”
By the way, McSweeney’s is collecting memories and tributes from readers and friends. I’m still in disbelief.
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Exclamation Ratio.
In light of the fact that it’s National Punctuation Day, please join with me in fighting the nefarious overuse of exclamation marks. (From the archives.) Bang!
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New Texting Acronyms for the Elderly.
New Texting Acronyms for the Elderly:
- BIMD: Back in my day
- ROFLACGU: Rolling on the floor laughing and can’t get up
- ML2N?: Matlock tonight?
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. An essay about tennis, tornadoes, and a coming of age, by David Foster Wallace. (Via Heavy.)
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ALA: Typography and Punctuation. Old gems on A List Apart related to typography: (1) The Trouble With EM ‘n EN (and Other Shady Characters) by Peter Sheerin, and (2) Typography Matters by Erin Kissane.
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Brand Name Pencils. An introduction to the broad and diverse world of brand name pencils produced in the US and abroad. BNP has been featured in Coudal’s Museum of Online Museums (MoOM). I love the Lovely 447’s from Empire Pencil Co.
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Flickr Typography Groups. David Airey’s roundup of typography-based Flickr groups. Besides some of the obvious gold-mines here (Found Type, Urban Typography, Arabic Typography, Japanese Typography, Typography of the 50’s), there are others that are downright humorous (Bad Type, Typography Abuse, Crimes Against Typography). At what point do we pass a bill and start prosecuting?
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Amazon Buys Shelfari. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is reporting that Amazon is buying Shelfari. I’ve tried using some of the popular social book sharing sites (LibraryThing, Shelfari, Good Reads), but can’t get past their hokey designs (i.e. Shelfari’s wood-grain bookshelves). Also, there doesn’t seem to be a clear winner yet between the three. I’m still holding out.
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Rainy Shoot.
Love this image of getting down and dirty for a good shot: Rainy Shoot.
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My heart will go on.
Who knew what musical treasures would be our reward when we agreed to a new roof and siding? Unfortunately, I had to experience this one second-hand. Mandy has more: My heart will go on.
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I Was Under The Impression That Everyone Loved My Headlocks.
Another fine piece of journalism from The Onion: I Was Under The Impression That Everyone Loved My Headlocks.
My entire life, I’ve always loved some good old-fashioned horseplay, and I assumed everyone else felt the same. So you can imagine my surprise when, out of nowhere, right in the middle of my youngest son’s baptism, my wife asks me to please stop putting everybody in headlocks because, as she claims, “No one enjoys it and no one ever did.”
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Radiohead Live.
Radiohead gave permission to NPR to record their live show at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 28th, 2008. NPR now has it available for download through their All Songs Considered podcast.
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Umbrella Today?.
Umbrella Today? A service where you can sign up to receive a daily text message telling you just one thing: do you need an umbrella today or not?
It’s like totally the simplest weather report ever, Julie.
In case you need a refresher, you might also brush up your Umbrella Etiquette.
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Todd Holmberg.
Todd Holmberg, a college friend of mine, is doing stand-up comedy and pottery in the Twin Cities. (With audio and video samples! For instance, Re-Possessed.)
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Dennis Benson, Piano Service, Web Design, and Photography Services.
Dennis Benson, Piano Service, Web Design, and Photography Services. Dad just finished a fancy new website design. Nice!
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Comments Enabled.
Due to popular request (read: Chloe), I’m enabling comments for recent entries.
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Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis.
Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis:
- 3 Who, although a gifted academic, is still a douche.
- 8 Right? No, he did. I think. No, I’m pretty sure he did.
- 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
(Via Kottke.)
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Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century.
My friend Dan just shared with me a stupendous and inspirational resource: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. From the introduction:
Dear Gentle Reader,
Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms.I can assure you that the Monsters with Mustaches series will derive significant guidance from these classic styles.
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Brand Name Pencils.
Brand Name Pencils — an introduction to the broad and diverse world of pencils produced in the US and abroad. BNP has been featured in Coudal’s Museum of Online Museums (MoOM). I love the Lovely 447’s from Empire Pencil Co. What a gold mine.
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US Open.
The US Open starts today at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. All eyes are on Rafa.
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Canned Laughter.
Design Observer on the dry wit and extensive use of double entendre in the port-a-potty branding biz. Examples: Drop Zone, LepreCAN, Loader-Up, Royal Throne, Tee Pee, Oui Oui Enterprises, Doodie Calls, and Yesterday’s Meals-on-Wheels.
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Gloomy Autumn for French Writing.
The Guardian is reporting that a gloomy autumn is on the way for French writing.
Avid readers across France are gearing up for “la rentrée littéraire”, the deluge of new novels that hits the country every August in anticipation of France’s autumn swarm of literary prizes. But this year’s rentrée strikes a sombre tone, and brings a halt to a seemingly unstoppable trend with a marked fall in the number of this year’s new titles.
Here are a few examples of what’s to come (from the article):
- Régis Jauffret’s recounting of a suicide in Lacrimosa.
- Valentine Goby’s novel about abortion Qui touche a mon corps je le tue (Touch Me and I’ll Kill You).
- Emmanuelle Pagano’s Les mains gamines (Innocent Hands) tackles the story of girl abused by her classmates.
- Mathieu Riboulet’s L’amant des morts (Lover of the Dead) confronts the Aids epidemic of the 1990s with the story of a man who sleeps with his own father.
- Tristan Garcia’s La meilleure part des hommes (The best of man), a novel which the author describes as a “faithful record” of the “betrayals of human existence, a portrait of the worst of mankind and - in negative - the best”.
I understand that good novels are not necessarily happy — in fact, I’d prefer otherwise — but I have to admit these don’t seem like ones you’d want to read when you’re alone on your Birthday.
“These books are fairly dark, very depressing - a bit like France,” said Vincy Thomas of Livres Hebdo. “There is a ‘grande malaise’, a sort of depression, in France at the moment. This is not a joyful country; when you think of France, you don’t think of a party country. The social reality in France is a real concern about the future and this is reflected in the books.” Aurélie Delfly, of one of France’s largest publishers Gallimard, agreed. “We aren’t very happy in France, and that is being felt in the subjects of the literature produced.”
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Delano Orchestra / Coldplay / Salsa Orchestra / Radiohead / Louis Armstrong.
Here’s an eclectic brew of The Delano Orchestra, Coldplay, a Salsa Orchestra at the Buena Vista Social Club in Havana, Radiohead, and Louis Armstrong from Streetkiss Music. What an unexpectedly pleasing mix.
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Hair-Brained Egg-Drop Scheme.
Logic is having a 6-story egg drop contest next month. Last night, I spent some time scheming about a potential design. I don’t know if it’s possible for me to not win. Bwa ha ha haaa.
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Unpimp My Ride.
Make - Volume 11 describes how to unpimp a Bianchi Milano and turn it into something that looks like a piece of crap, to deter thievery.
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Typical Bo Jackson Run on Tecmo Super Bowl.
Typical Bo Jackson Run on Tecmo Super Bowl. Ahh, the memories.
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Team Profile: Lefty and Skinny.
The Minneathlon is this Friday. Our team profile (Lefty and Skinny) was recently posted, and there seems to be some decent banter in the trash-talk section. Also, since the race coordinators are running the prize give-away like a horse-race, they’re posting revised odds as people make their bets.
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Minneathlon v2.0: Brains vs. Brawn.
Minneathlon v2.0: Brains vs. Brawn. This is Logic’s version of the Amazing Race in and around downtown Minneapolis, to be held on June 27th, 2008. This year, Jason and I were granted entry as team Lefty & Skinny. More updates to come.
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Haley Jo.
Welcome to Haley Jo, born on Tues, May 27, 2008, 6lb 10oz and 20".
What a cutie. Congratulations Brian and Jill!
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On the fate of the semicolon.
Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon. The debate on the value of the semicolon goes on. Some authors love it, some hate it. Why is this discussion so divisive? The semicolon is just a misunderstood grammatical outsider with a split personality — sometimes a comma and sometimes a period — that wants to be left alone.
Here are some quotes from the article. First, Guillemette Faure:
It’s true that computer programmers use an awful lot of them, mainly as separators. And that’s surely the last step on the line before it’s reduced to a mere email emoticon.
Obviously Mr. Faure has not heard of ML. Next, George Bernard Shaw to TE Lawrence, on the Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
Err, childish? Next, Kurt Vonnegut:
If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
Yikes! I haven’t finished thinking about that one. Finally, George Orwell:
I had decided about this time that the semicolon is an unnecessary stop and that I would write my next book without one.
Hm, hard to argue with G.O. on style.
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Wiener Water Soup.
A Cooks.com user-submitted recipe for Wiener Water Soup. (Via Serious Eats, Kottke.)
Wiener Water Soup
1 pkg. wieners
3 c. waterCombine wieners and water in a two quart saucepan. Bring to a boil until wieners are cooked. Throw the wieners in the garbage. Serve soup. Serves 3.
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Night Harvest.
Patrick Power’s Night Harvest from the excellent FILE Magazine.
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Regina Spektor - The Call.
Saw Prince Caspian last night with Mandy and was pleasantly surprised by the closing song, sung by Regina Spektor, called The Call. The style differs markedly from the full majestic orchestral phrases that were common throughout most of the movie, but the lyrics and the modern folk melody seemed to correspond well with the closing geo-time-travel from Narnia to England.
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Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick.
Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick. I still love these guys (Butterfly, Doodlebug, Ladybug Mecca, Silkworm).
We be to rap what key be to lock.
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Urban Green.
I was going through some old jayber.org designs of mine, came across a few that caught my eye, and realized that they all have a common theme in that they are: (1) urban, and (2) green. Here are some samples:
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Pimped-Out Van.
Pimped-out van on Flickr. Dang, wouldn’t want to take that thing off road. Nice wings though! By the way, is that a chihuahua in the front window? This definitely one-ups the Popemobile. (Via Matt H.)
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‘skine.art..
‘skine.art. is a site dedicated to Moleskine lovers and their art.
[…] we encourage anyone and everyone to […] submit their artwork. There is no “good” or “bad” art, just Art.
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The Pope’s Pimpin’ Popemobile.
A Peek Inside the Popemobile - Newsweek
The popemobile isn’t its official name, because it doesn’t have one. In fact, Pope John Paul II pleaded with journalists to stop using the term in 2002 because he thought it sounded “undignified.” So it’s not surprising that a Vatican spokesman couldn’t say whether popemobile (small p) describes every car in the pontiff’s fleet or whether only the car in use by the pope is the Popemobile with a big p […]
I just like the name Popemobile for some reason. I can’t get it out of my head. I just keep saying it silently. Popemobile, Popemobile, Popemobile.
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Compiler Zingers.
My professor continues to keep the compiler-theory zingers coming. Today, he rattled off another set that had me laughing quietly.
Fortran is structurally deficient. It’s really a shame that people use it.
Zing!
Algol is the father of all sensible languages we have today. And then, there’s C…
Bwa!
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Hong Kong Handshake.
Hong Kong Handshake. White & Gold foil stamping on White Shiro 80, 1400gsm.
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Oliver Munday.
Oliver Munday business card and resume, printed on quarter roll paper. Very nice.
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Love Thy Bro.
I remember driving by this sign every day for a few years on the corner of North Penn and West Broadway in North Minneapolis: Love Thy Bro (cf. Mark 12:28-31).
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Martial Arts Knockout.
Martial Arts Knockout. Nice tornado.
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Paramore Music Video.
Created as a high-school class project with some friends, my cousin Alex Benson (the floppy-haired head-banger in red pantaloons), rips a stadium-worthy solo at 2:23 in their Paramore Music Video (Misery Business). How can you not love this?
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Zing!.
Nearly without fail, each time my compiler theory class meets, our professor comes up with some linguistic boner that a language (not based on Lambda Calculus) commits that further validates the righteousness of ML. Here’s the compiler-theory insult of the day.
The only time I could conceive of this type of approach for resolving shift-reduce conflicts is in C++, which I would consider more of an ad-hoc language—not a real language.
Zing!
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Gotham: A Font We Can Believe In.
I’ve waffled for a few days on whether to post this or not, but the font that Obama’s campaign uses for their “Change We Can Believe In” marketing material, uses Gotham, which was originally designed for GQ by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, inspired by a sign for the NY Port Authority.
H&FJ say of Gotham’s original aesthetic intent:
GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it. It also needed to look very masculine and ‘of-the-moment.’
Seems to go well with Obama’s message. Perhaps we should add Typography to the list of our country’s important political issues.
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lowercase L.
[A website dedicated to] hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L.
Find out more about what the L this is all about. (Via DF.)
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Nick Fraser on the American novelist, Richard Yates.
Nick Fraser on the American novelist, Richard Yates, quoting a character from Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down, on the topic of Revolutionary Road:
I wouldn’t recommend finishing it on Christmas Day, in a cold-water bedsit, […] It probably didn’t help my general sense of well-being, if you know what I mean, because the ending is a real downer.
Ellen Barkin, producer of an upcoming film based on Easter Parade:
Brits immediately get Yates - maybe because they have never bought into anything as dumb as the American dream. There’s no “glad morning” in his books.
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Jayber Mobile.
I just added Jayber Mobile, formatted for cell phones. So far, I’ve only viewed it on a forgiving Moto Q9c, running at 320x240.
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River: The Joni Letters.
Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, just won album of the year. Still, one of my favorite albums of all time is H.H.’s tribute to Gershwin.
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MS 150.
The National MS Society is having a series of 150-mile bike rides this summer to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research and treatment. One of the races goes from Duluth to Blaine. Mandy and I are thinking of riding, so if anyone else wants to join in, let us know.
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Tinley Park cheerleaders are state champs.
Tinley Park cheerleaders are state champs.
While it’s only two-and-a half minutes, their exerting all their total energy while yelling as loud as they can and have to look happy about it at the same time.
Andrew H.S. is Mandy’s Alma Mater.
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Super Bowl Ads.
Super Bowl Ads. A roundup.
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Full-Length Tracks on Last.fm.
Great news from East London:
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on Last.fm.
Also, independent artists can upload their own music and, depending on a song’s popularity, share in the profits.
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Dance Jam.
MC Hammer’s social networking side project, Dance Jam, will be debuted later this month. From a Washington Post interview on the topic:
At the right time, I will introduce several styles of the Hammer Dance — including tips on executing some of the classic moves […]
Hammer Time!
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Dutch Advertising Graphics.
From BibliOdyssey, here are some Dutch advertising graphics from the 150 years of advertising in the Netherlands collection at the ReclameArsenaal foundation in Amsterdam.
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Phonofone.
Using passive amplification alone, designer Tristan Zimmermann came up with the Phonofone II, which transforms a personal music player into a sort of mini victrola.
From Science & Sons:
[…] Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone […] exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels* (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers)
This would fit nicely on top of my full-size victrola at home. (Via Veer.)
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John Maeda: Simplicity Patterns.
John Maeda gave a talk at the TED conference this last year entitled “Simplicity Patterns”. In the talk, he argues that we, as humans, want to reduce complexity in areas that we deem mundane, but desire complexity in areas that excite us. Also, check out his related book: The Laws of Simplicity, available for free from the MIT Media Lab. (via Jim Hoar.)
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Residuals Feed Discontinued.
Hello readers of Jayber Residuals. The residual links have now been combined with the main blog, which means that there is now only one RSS feed for Jayber. The main feed (http://jayber.org/index.xml) contains both regular posts, as well as residual links. The old feed (http://jayber.org/residuals/index.xml) has been… terminated.
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Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland.
Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland.
Bobby Fischer, America’s first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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ESV Bible Online: Chronological Reading Guide.
ESV Bible Online: Chronological Reading Guide. Daily readings are structured in the order they occurred chronologically. For example, the book of Job is integrated with Genesis because Job lived before Abraham. (More on the ESV and its philosophy of word-for-word translation.)
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Site Updates.
Thanks to EA, Jayber is being hosted on a new server, and I’m exploiting the opportunity to realign the design. Things are a bit broken at the moment, but if you have any input, let me know.
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Good People.
Good People by David Foster Wallace.
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13 Photographs That Changed the World.
13 Photographs That Changed the World. Good collection and descriptions.
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Hingis given two-year ban for failed dope test.
Hingis given two-year ban for failed dope test. Now, her November retirement announcement is making more sense.
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Health Effects of Clutter.
Too often [hoarders] approach clutter and disorganization as a space problem that can be solved by acquiring bins and organizers.
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Mountain Wingsuit.
Mountain Wingsuit. Sick.
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Dissertation Calculator. University of Minnesota: Dissertation Calculator.≡ 4 Dec 2007
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Hugs and Leashes.
Hugs and Leashes; a dog-loving website by a friend of mine: Ryan Van Slooten.
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Ukraine - One Love.
Video from my Dad’s recent trip to Drabiv, Ukraine. Fast forward to 1:31 to see him doing the Hawaiian War Chant in a hula skirt and coconut bra.
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LinuxBootArgs < DULG < DENX.
LinuxBootArgs for uboot. Why oh why didn’t I know this before?
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Bike Messenger Race.
Bike Messenger Race. Check out the sweet move at 4:10.
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Fixed Gear Bike Gallery.
Fixed Gear Bike Gallery. I hope to pimp my Peugeot in like fashion.
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Imogen Heap.
Imogen Heap Hide And Seek. Love it.
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Breakdancing Street Fighter Baby Kick.
Breakdancing Street Fighter Baby Kick. Gee, I hope that kid is alright.
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Creature Comforts on CBS.
Creature Comforts. The first scene of the first episode had me hooked.
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Armstrong Food Fight.
Armstrong Food Fight. A friend’s brother was an “instrumental” organizer.
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Georgina Bush.
Georgina Bush. A fine portrait indeed.
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Protect the Boys.
Protect the Boys at all costs.
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Grammy Award Winning Album Colors.
Grammy Award Winning Album Colors - 2007. I love “Modern Times”.
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Restroom Renascence.
Restroom Renascence. A poem in iambic tetrameter about boundaries, freedom, and porcelain.
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Programming in the Age of Concurrency: Software Transactional Memory.
Simon Peyton Jones, and Tim Harris interview about their STM work at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
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Ira Glass on Storytelling.
Ira Glass (of This American Life) on storytelling: 1, 2, 3, and 4. (Via EA.)
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George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing.
George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing. See the original essay.
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Asian Landscape.
Asian Landscape from my good friend Paul Olson.
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Personas.
Personas: intro, tips, benefits, and relationship to goal-directed design.
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The HOFF.
Whatever you do, don’t click on this. You’ll never be the same again.
≡ 5 Mar 2007 -
Tony Danz[ig].
Tony Danz[ig]. I can’t stop laughing.
≡ 5 Mar 2007 -
TextPad 5.0.
TextPad 5.0 released. (Via Hilden.)
≡ 5 Mar 2007 -
Incomprehensible Intersections.
Incomprehensible Intersections. See if you can figure out how to make a left off Rosanov Street in Moscow. (Via J.B.C.)
≡ 5 Mar 2007 -
Jayber is now wider.
Design update: I increased the width to take advantage of 1024x768 resolutions.
≡ 3 Mar 2007 -
Sir Ken Robinson.
Sir Ken Robinson. On creating an education system that values creativity as much as literacy.
≡ 28 Feb 2007 -
Beatboxing Flute Player.
Beatboxing Flute Player: Inspector Gadget Remix. This is totally def.
≡ 19 Feb 2007 -
A Guide to Writing Well.
A Guide to Writing Well. Joshua Sowin works for Desiring God.
≡ 14 Feb 2007 -
Purple and Brown.
Purple and Brown Bubble Gum, Growl, Balloon, and Sneeze. (Via Josh L..)
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Rodney White Art.
Rodney White Art. Acrylic on wood.
≡ 5 Feb 2007 -
12 Stone Art.
12 Stone Art. Online art gallery specializing in museum-quality fine art prints of Christian artwork.
≡ 5 Feb 2007 -
Superbowl Commercials.
Superbowl Commercials. (The Fedex Moon Office had me cracking up.)
≡ 5 Feb 2007 -
Police to Reunite at Upcoming Grammy Awards.
Police to Reunite at Upcoming Grammy Awards. (Feb 11th, 2007.)
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell.
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell. Free download.
≡ 31 Jan 2007 -
DBLP Bibliography.
Digital Bibliography and Library Project. For Computer Science Journals and Proceedings. This is incredibly useful. XML available for download.
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≡ 31 Jan 2007
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>The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software.
The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software.
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≡ 30 Jan 2007
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Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#.
Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#. Touches on the reasons for adding concurrency abstractions as language extensions as opposed to libraries—the point of Cω.
≡ 30 Jan 2007 -
Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make.
Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make. Third in a series. See also one and two. Disturbing.
≡ 30 Jan 2007 -
Cheerleader and Marching Band Bloopers.
Cheerleader and Marching Band Bloopers. Dad sent this to me and it had me cracking up. The last scene is worth it.
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100 Best Fonts.
100 Best Fonts. The top 5 are Helvetica, Garamond, Frutiger, Bodoni, and Futura.
≡ 25 Jan 2007 -
Paper Prototyping.
Paper Prototyping. Along the same lines as the Hipster PDA and the DIY Planner.
≡ 23 Jan 2007 -
The Purloined Sirloin.
The Purloined Sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat.
≡ 23 Jan 2007 -
Multithreading invites string of nasty bugs.
Multithreading invites string of nasty bugs. Precisely why I’m studying this for my Master’s thesis. (Via John Collins.)
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≡ 22 Jan 2007
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Flambe'.
Over the weekend, Erik Freed made some French Flambe’ for us with vanilla ice cream, mangos, grain alchohol, and a touch of pyrotechnics. (Video on YouTube.)
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Chicago Uncommon.
Chicago Uncommon. Urban photography by Dawn Mikulich.
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Acceptable Written Forms for the Bullwhip Sound Effect.
Acceptable Written Forms for the Bullwhip Sound Effect. Make sure to mouth the words for each one.
≡ 18 Jan 2007 -
Japanese Foliage.
Japanese Foliage. More great brushes from Jason Gaylor.
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≡ 17 Jan 2007
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Pearl Crescent Page Saver.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver. Firefox extension for below-the-fold screenshots. (Example. Via Cameron Moll.)
≡ 15 Jan 2007 -
Wendell Berry Interview.
Wendell Berry Interview from NPR (1998) where he reads from his “Window” series of poems.
≡ 10 Jan 2007 -
Eldar Djangirov.
Eldar Djangirov, Jazz Pianist from Kyrgyzstan. (Thanks Erik.)
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Penguin Books.
Penguin Books. Mmm… Book cover design.
≡ 5 Dec 2006 -
Fimoculous 2006 List of Lists.
Fimoculous 2006 Lists. A compilation of “best-of” lists for 2006.
≡ 4 Dec 2006 -
SourceMonitor.
SourceMonitor for static complexity analysis.
≡ 4 Dec 2006 -
LocMetrics.
LocMetrics. Source code line-counting tool.
≡ 4 Dec 2006 -
Flickr Camera Finder.
Flickr: Camera Finder. Interesting that the D50 is now more popular than the D70.
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≡ 29 Nov 2006
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BarCamp / MinneDemo.
BarCamp / MinneDemo. “[…] where we showcase […] kick-ass software […] and have […] beers […]”.
≡ 28 Nov 2006 -
John Piper is Bad.
John Piper is Bad. The video.
≡ 28 Nov 2006 -
2006 World Broomball Championships.
2006 World Broomball Championships. Gaddy-up Brojac!
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≡ 25 Oct 2006
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ACM SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14.
ACM SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14. I’ll be attending this year thanks to a National Science Foundation fellowship.
≡ 24 Oct 2006 -
2-Channel Infrared Picco Z Mini Helicopter.
2-Channel Infrared Picco Z Mini Helicopter. I guess I just started my Christmas list.
≡ 24 Oct 2006 -
David Kupferman.
David Kupferman. Boston artist specializing in abstract images using acrylic on canvas or paper. David is a nice guy; I got to chat with him on a plane from LAX to Pheonix.
≡ 24 Oct 2006 -
Spin Master.
Spin Master. Wicked!
≡ 18 Oct 2006 -
Google Code Search.
Google Code Search. Example: GPL Quicksort.
≡ 5 Oct 2006 -
Tesla Motors.
Tesla Motors. The first 100 were sold each for $100,000.
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RadioShack lays off employees via e-mail.
RadioShack lays off employees via e-mail. “Employees were invited to ask questions on the company’s intranet site.”
≡ 30 Aug 2006 -
Kakuro.
Kakuro. A number-based crossword puzzle. This site was engineered by an old friend of mine: Aaron Kardell.
≡ 15 Aug 2006 -
Aussies on lookout for ugly sheep.
Aussies on lookout for ugly sheep. “So far only 10 […] have been found […]”
≡ 15 Aug 2006 -
How to Survive a Freestyle Rap Battle.
How to Survive a Freestyle Rap Battle. I could have used this last Friday. (Via T3sk3y.)
≡ 10 Aug 2006 -
Choral Evensong.
Choral Evensong—a BBC Radio programme of Anglican choral music—has been broadcast weekly since 1926. (Listen to the latest.)
≡ 2 Aug 2006 -
Layout Grid Bookmarklet.
Layout Grid Bookmarklet. A useful tool to change the background image of the page, to a grid, to aid in layout and wireframing. Inspired by Khoi Vinh and Smiley Cat.
≡ 26 Jul 2006 -
Common Enemies of the Paperboy, According to the Nintendo Game of the Same Name.
Common Enemies of the Paperboy, According to the Nintendo Game of the Same Name.
≡ 26 Jul 2006 -
LogoPond - Identity Inspiration.
LogoPond identity inspiration. (Via Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.)
≡ 25 Jul 2006 -
Fresh Foliage Photoshop Brushes for High Resolution [Part II].
Fresh Foliage Photoshop Brushes for High Resolution [Part II]. More fantastic brushes from the generous Jason Gaylor.
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activeCollab.
activeCollab open source project management and collaboration tool.
≡ 18 Jul 2006 -
Wiring VoIP to home phone jacks.
Wiring VoIP to home phone jacks. I’ll be doing this shortly.
≡ 18 Jul 2006 -
The Lovers.
The Lovers. Poptrical Sophistifunk!
≡ 17 Jul 2006 -
CSS World Awards Winners 2006.
CSS World Awards Winners 2006. Two of my favorites are UX Mag and The City Church.
≡ 12 Jul 2006 -
Brave wife 'fends off' big tiger.
Brave wife ‘fends off’ big tiger. “A woman in Bangladesh armed only with an oar from her rowing boat fended off a Royal Bengal tiger which was attacking her husband, police say.”
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Three Rivers Park District.
Three Rivers Park District. Regional parks in and around the Mississippi, Minnesota and Crow rivers.
≡ 20 Jun 2006 -
Zombo.com.
Welcome to Zombo.com. This is Zombo.com. (Via Patrick Haney.)
≡ 16 Jun 2006 -
Interactive Urbanisation.
Interactive Urbanisation Map from the BBC for visualizing urban growth as a function of time.
≡ 16 Jun 2006 -
Slashdot Redesigned.
Slashdot Redesigned. The result of the recent contest.
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≡ 1 Jun 2006
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Wiki + Maps == WikiMapia.
Wiki + Maps == WikiMapia.
≡ 1 Jun 2006 -
Picasa for Linux.
Picasa for Linux, just released. It uses Wine, and the Gecko engine, which makes me wonder what the performance will be like.
≡ 1 Jun 2006 -
Nevaeh.
Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards) has become the fastest-growing name for baby girls in more than a century. Check popularity history with NameVoyager. (Via Kottke.)
≡ 1 Jun 2006 -
Doug Bowman Going to Google.
Doug Bowman is going to Google to be their new Visual Design Lead.
≡ 30 May 2006 -
Web Developer's Handbook.
Web Developer’s Handbook. Lot’s of good material here.
≡ 22 May 2006 -
Trend Aggregators.
List of Trend Aggregators. Popurls should really be in this list.
≡ 22 May 2006 -
Bikebox.
Bikebox. Trailors for bicycles. Ideal for ghetto blaster transport.
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≡ 5 May 2006
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BBC Reboot.
BBC is requesting submissions for a home-page redesign. A new Apple laptop is the prize.
≡ 3 May 2006 -
Get a Mac.
Apple launches ‘Get a Mac’ TV Ad Campaign. Funny stuff. (Via Daring Fireball.)
≡ 2 May 2006 -
ABC.com: Full Episode Streaming.
ABC.com: Full Episode Streaming. Hopefully other networks will follow.
≡ 1 May 2006 -
≡ 1 May 2006
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April 30th, 1993.
On this day in history (April 30th, 1993), Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a quarter-final match in Hamburg by Gunter Parche.
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≡ 26 Apr 2006
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Tank Chair.
Tank Chair. Off-road and custom.
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
"Software Engineer" Tops Money Magazine's List of 10 Best Jobs.
“Software Engineer” tops Money Magazine’s list of 10 best jobs.
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
Bush Impersonator Reads Speeches Written by Little Kids.
Bush impersonator reads speeches written by little kids. (Via Waxy.)
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
Visual Composer.
Visual Composer. Cute.
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
Pimp My Snack.
Pimp My Snack. (a.k.a. Snacks for Pimps. (Via del.icio.us popular.)
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
Fifty Ways to Take Notes.
Fifty Ways to Take Notes. I admit it, I’m a sucka’ for new ways.
≡ 24 Apr 2006 -
101 Movies You Must See.
Roger Ebert’s list of 101 movies you must see that “everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat ‘movie-literate’”.
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≡ 24 Apr 2006
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Robot Dance.
Robot Dance. Mad skillz.
≡ 21 Apr 2006 -
Modo & Modo For Sale.
Modo & Modo (makers of the Moleskine) have put themselves up for sale.
≡ 20 Apr 2006 -
Sun Opens Modeling Tools. Sun Opens Modeling Tools. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m willing to wager that the UML modeling components are better than Visio.≡ 20 Apr 2006
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Gruber Begins Writing Daring Fireball Full-Time.
John Gruber has quit his job at Joyent to write for Daring Fireball full-time. John is the best MAC writer on the web right now, as far as I’m concerned.
≡ 20 Apr 2006 -
Mowing the Lawn.
Mowing the Lawn. A vibrant photo of expectation from File Magazine.
≡ 20 Apr 2006 -
Avis / XM Commercial.
New Avis / XM Commercial. Funny video of a car full of white-collar business men, rap-sync’ing.
≡ 19 Apr 2006 -
Monobrow.com.
Monobrow.com. Celebrating the unity of your eyebrows.
≡ 19 Apr 2006 -
Princeton Laptop Orchestra.
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) is an ensemble of 15 students, each seated on a pillow with a laptop, and a 6-channel speaker. (Listen; via Coudal.)
≡ 19 Apr 2006 -
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content.
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content. Results from the NN/g eyetracking study.
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≡ 17 Apr 2006
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Symbol Signs.
The AIGA and the U.S. DOT have released a set of symbol signs, designed for transportation hubs and international events. (Via Veerle.)
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Flashbag.
Flashbag. USB flash drive with micro pump that changes the size of the device depending on the amount of data it holds.
≡ 13 Apr 2006 -
Google Calendar.
Google Calendar, now live.
≡ 13 Apr 2006 -
Incredible Machines.
Incredible Machines from Pistol Wimp. A 12-minute collection of rube goldberg inventions from the Japanese TV show.
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≡ 13 Apr 2006
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The Visual Work of Scott Hansen.
The Visual Work of Scott Hansen. Fantastic textures. (Via Cameron Moll.)
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≡ 12 Apr 2006
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The Peace of Wild Things.
Coudal Partners, Verse By Voice is featuring a poem by Wendell Berry today: The Peace of Wild Things. (Audio, Text.)
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Type Navigator.
Type Navigator. Interactive visual font search.
≡ 7 Apr 2006 -
CC Stock Photography.
Every Stock Photo. Stupendous and long-needed CC photo search.
≡ 6 Apr 2006 -
View Rendered Source.
View Rendered Source. A Firefox extension to display source in its altered state after the DOM has been manipulated by JavaScript.
≡ 6 Apr 2006 -
Ace of Lace.
Ace of Lace. Make it stop! © Coudal.
≡ 6 Apr 2006 -
Pizza All Day.
Pizza All Day. I love the first slide: “I sure love pizza! *gomp*, *gomp*.”
≡ 5 Apr 2006 -
Boot Camp.
Boot Camp. A public beta that will eventually ship with OS X Leopard to help install Windows on Intel-based Macs.
≡ 5 Apr 2006 -
Edmund Hall.
Edmund Hall Portfolio. Nice use of posterized, simplified, layered, and worn common objects.
≡ 4 Apr 2006 -
Newspaper Mastheads.
Newspaper Mastheads from the Virginia Newspaper Project. Check out the detail on American Queen. (Via Cameron Moll.)
≡ 4 Apr 2006 -
Cameron Moll Portfolio.
Cameron Moll Portfolio redesigned with worn leather and judicious use of Jason Gaylor’s foliage brushes.
≡ 3 Apr 2006 -
ATDT.
ATDT. “Go into Microsoft Frontpage and select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow and just wait for someone to offer hundreds-of-millions to buy you out.”
≡ 3 Apr 2006 -
NY Times Redesigns.
NY Times Redesigns. (Via Waxy.)
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≡ 3 Apr 2006
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Church Beauty.
Church Beauty. Inspiring church websites.
≡ 3 Apr 2006 -
Wookieepedia.
Wookieepedia. Star Wars wiki.
≡ 31 Mar 2006 -
Focus Groups.
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” — Steve Jobs. (Via Airbag.)
≡ 30 Mar 2006 -
Web 2.0 Awards.
SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards. 300+ sites, 38 categories, 21 interviews.
≡ 30 Mar 2006 -
Up With Grups.
Grups (AKA, yupsters, yindies, and alterna-yuppies). The ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood and killed off the generation gap.
≡ 29 Mar 2006 -
Best Bumper Stickers.
Best bumper stickers. “Save the trees, wipe your butt with an owl.”
≡ 29 Mar 2006 -
Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content.
Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content. “Design is that it is almost always about something else. The more things you’re interested in, the better your work will be.”
≡ 28 Mar 2006 -
CNN Redesigns.
CNN Redesigns. (Via Dan Benjamin.)
≡ 27 Mar 2006 -
2-Inch Art Books.
2-inch art books. (Via Coudal.)
≡ 27 Mar 2006 -
Megaphone Helmet.
Never seen this before: a righteous 1950’s megaphone helmet with a shoulder-mounted battery pack. (Via Boing Boing.)
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Jayber Reference.
To help organize notes for school (warning: highly-variable quality), I created a new Reference section that I like to call, “Konichiwa Buffet.”
≡ 24 Mar 2006 -
Sleeping Giants.
Sleeping Giants. Aviation afterlife in the desert.
≡ 24 Mar 2006 -
UX Magazine.
UX. A new magazine about user experience.
≡ 24 Mar 2006 -
Scrambler.
A number of people have asked about the Scrambler script that’s used on the navigation for Jayber, so I created a project page containing a demo, and a download.
≡ 23 Mar 2006 -
Robert Sapolsky Lectures on the Physiology of Stress.
Robert Sapolsky lectures on the physiology of stress. (iTunes direct.)
≡ 23 Mar 2006 -
Iron-On Resistance.
Iron-On Resistance. Lovely independent art products. Don’t miss their Proletariat’s Day sale.
≡ 22 Mar 2006 -
How to destroy the Earth.
How to destroy the Earth. Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about geocide.
≡ 21 Mar 2006 -
Tronical.
Tronical. Automatic electric guitar tuning system with replacement tuning pegs (with servos), a knob that lets you change between tunings, and a controller.
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SimpleBits Realigned.
SimpleBits has been realigned. This “Arkanoid Edition” has embellished footers, muted colors, and maintains a nice balance between fixed and fluid layouts.
≡ 17 Mar 2006 -
Chicaco at the Barn Theatre.
My Dad just got done directing the music (vocal and pit) for Chicago, which played at The Barn Theatre, in Willmar Minnesota over the last few weeks.
≡ 16 Mar 2006 -
Selenium IDE.
Selenium IDE. HTTP automated testing. Posh.
≡ 16 Mar 2006 -
Ma.gnolia.com Domain Expired.
Ma.gnolia.com’s domain has expired. Such short life spans, these Web 2.0 companies have. Update: account restored; I wonder what happened?
≡ 15 Mar 2006 -
Maximizing your ROI at Pizza Hut.
Maximizing your ROI at Pizza Hut. How to straight milk them, with only one trip to the salad bar.
≡ 15 Mar 2006 -
Web Standards Project Redesign.
The Web Standards Project has been redesigned by Malarky. It’s nice, to be sure, but I don’t know about “grassroots”; it feels more like “bumblebee.”
≡ 14 Mar 2006 -
Inbox Zero.
Inbox Zero; Merlin on the current productivity pandemic.
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≡ 13 Mar 2006
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isolatr beta.
People always used to approach me to try and talk about this or that. I wanted to punch them in the throat. Now they leave me the hell alone. Thanks isolatr!
Also, see the upcoming alpha of the IMolatr where you are:
[…] always listed as away, and if people try to contact you, IMolatr will actually set their hands on fire!
≡ 13 Mar 2006 -
Google Mars.
Google announces Google Mars, in honor of Percival Lowell, and in collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University.
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Kiwa hirsuta.
American divers off the coast of Easter Island have found a new species of crustacean (Kiwa hirsuta) that resembles a furry lobster with silky, blond fur. Peachy.
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popurls.com.
popurls.com. A collection of pop-buzz urls (digg, del.icio.us, newsvine, flickr, reddit, tailrank, slashdot, youtube, google news, topix, and comagz) all on one page.
≡ 7 Mar 2006 -
Flickr Leech.
Flickr Leech. View Flickr “Interestingness”, without paging.
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Logic featured in The Columbian.
Logic featured in The Columbian (Vancouver print.)
≡ 6 Mar 2006 -
AJAX Press.
AJAX Press. Dude.
≡ 6 Mar 2006 -
Design Education.
Design Education. Thousands of design resources. Thanks Gustavo.
≡ 6 Mar 2006 -
Un-Pimp My Ride.
Un-Pimp My Ride. New commercials from VW that had me laughing pretty good.
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
StepUI.
StepUI. A Microsoft Research project that lets you sort your mail and organize your photos using a dance pad. Think Dance Dance Revolution meets David Allen. So, who’s going to hack this into an MMORPG?
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
Newsvine Launches.
Newsvine Launches. Check out the article-specific live chats.
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
Veerle's blog.
Veerle’s blog, redesigned with smart and crafty flair.
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
Mark Bixby Reveals a Sample of Airbaggian Business Cards.
Mark Bixby Reveals a Sample of Airbaggian Business Cards. Good choice, Greg.
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
Fresh Foliage Photoshop Brushes.
Fresh Foliage Photoshop Brushes from Jason Gaylor. Also, he’s got some great “worn” brushes as well (I, II and III.)
≡ 2 Mar 2006 -
South Dakota passes abortion ban.
South Dakota passes abortion ban.
South Dakota became the first U.S. state to pass a law banning abortion in virtually all cases, with the intention of forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973 decision legalizing the procedure.
All that’s left, is for Republican Gov. Michael Rounds to sign it, which he probably will.
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Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors.
Andy digs up Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors.
[The game has a part called] “Desert Bus,” a “VeriSimulator” in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, […] the bus veers to the right, so you can’t just leave the joypad propped up.
There are reports of two guys playing this game for like 4 days straight. Their high score? 12 points.
≡ 28 Feb 2006 -
Making of Ma.gnolia.
Fl.ower. Greg Story talks about the making of Ma.gnolia.
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≡ 28 Feb 2006
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Ride-By Bottom Slap.
Man sentenced for ride-by bottom slap.
A Colombian man has been sentenced to four years’ house arrest for slapping a woman’s bottom as he rode by her on his bicycle, sparking debate on whether the punishment fit the crime.
I wouldn’t advocate this type of barbaric behavior (even though it’s somewhat humorous), but doesn’t the punishment seem excessive?
≡ 27 Feb 2006 -
Make PCB's with a laser printer.
Make PCB’s with a laser printer using the EAGLE Layout Editor, semi-glossy photo paper, a laser-jet printer, soapy water, etchant, and an iron.
≡ 27 Feb 2006 -
Top Cameras Used on Flickr.
[…] top camera makes and models used to create photos uploaded to Flickr […] generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads.
The Nikon D70, and the Canon EOS 20D are fighting for #1.
≡ 27 Feb 2006 -
George Crumb.
A sampling of avant-garde composer George Crumb’s art. Crumb arranges his scores in forms of circles, peace symbols, and crucifixes, and are playable. (Via Coudal.)
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Official Google Blog: History deserves the best.
Official Google Blog: History deserves the best. Pilot program to digitize video content from the National Archives.
≡ 24 Feb 2006 -
Mint.
Last night, I installed Shaun Inman’s Mint to track stats on Jayber and found myself giggling at how fun it was to see for the first time. Mint meets a simple need well, and is designed with extraordinary attention paid to detail.≡ 24 Feb 2006 -
Malcolm Gladwell's Blog.
Malcolm Gladwell (author of Blink, and writer for the New Yorker) is blogging.
≡ 24 Feb 2006 -
Google Pages.
Google Pages. Free hosting with 100MB of storage. It was only a matter of time.
≡ 23 Feb 2006 -
NBA 2006 Dunk Contest.
NBA 2006 Dunk Contest. A highlight video, in case you missed it, like me.
≡ 22 Feb 2006 -
Text to Speech.
A few weeks ago, I added a TTS (Text to Speech) feature to Jayber. All posts are now voice-enabled which means that if you click the link titled “audio version of this article”, Susan, Cheryl, Jackie, or whatever the sam hill her name is, will read the post to you.
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≡ 22 Feb 2006
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Do-it-yourself remotely-managed music player.
Do-it-yourself remotely-managed music player using a discontinued netgear router running Linux, a $12 Japenese LCD kit, and an $8 USB audio adapter.
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Zillow.
Zillow. Models home valuations and comparable sales using hard-to-find county tax data. Sweet Moses!
≡ 21 Feb 2006 -
Man in Vietnam hasn’t slept in 33 years.
Man in Vietnam hasn’t slept in 33 years.
[…] Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights.
Wha?
≡ 21 Feb 2006 -
Firefox Extensions for Web Developers.
Firefox extensions for web developers. I’m a sucker for a good list.
≡ 21 Feb 2006 -
Sorting Algorithms.
Sorting Algorithms, along with complexity analysis and source.
≡ 21 Feb 2006 -
Minneapolis Traffic Map.
Minneapolis Traffic Map. A Google Maps mashup of Twin Cities traffic data, including accidents, congestion, construction and cameras. (Via Erik Mitchell.)
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Microsoft Says So-Long to FrontPage.
Microsoft says so-long to FrontPage. Good riddance, far as I’m concerned. (Via Kottke.)
≡ 19 Feb 2006 -
Podbop.
Podbop. Get podcasts of bands coming to your town. Here’s the link for Minneapolis.
≡ 16 Feb 2006 -
Collection of Free Grunge Fonts.
The Web Design Times has assembled a collection of free grunge fonts.
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Yahoo! OSS Ajax and Design Tools.
Yahoo! OSS Ajax and Design Tools. The effort includes a User Interface Libary, a Design Pattern Library, and a blog.
≡ 14 Feb 2006 -
The Beastles.
The Beastles. A Beastie Boy, Beatles mashup. Brilliant.
≡ 14 Feb 2006 -
Winter Olympics TV Schedule.
Winter Olympics TV schedule all on one page. Via.
≡ 13 Feb 2006 -
Nonviolent Westerns.
Nonviolent Westerns. “A Man Called My Little Pony.”
≡ 13 Feb 2006 -
Engadget Mobile.
Engadget Mobile. Daily coverage of mobile gadgetry.
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FireBug.
FireBug is the silver-nugget Firefox extension that helps tame the ECMA script debugging beast.
≡ 13 Feb 2006 -
Cheney Peppers "Friend" with Birdshot. Cheney Peppers “Friend” with Birdshot. “The nature of quail shooting ensures that this will happen. It goes with the turf.”≡ 12 Feb 2006
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Free Trebuchet Plans. Free Trebuchet Plans. How to build a homemade contraption to whip small things really really fast!≡ 10 Feb 2006
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Linotype Typeface Catalog A-Z. Linotype Typeface Catalog A-Z. Heaven on earth.≡ 9 Feb 2006
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Diver survives three days in ocean. “A former New Zealand navy diver left adrift at sea for three days survived by eating crayfish and sea slugs after he became separated from friends while diving near an island off the country’s coast.” “‘This defies survivability, it’s bloody awesome,’ said police search and rescue Senior Sergeant Bruce Johnson.”≡ 9 Feb 2006
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Variable Fixed-Width Layout. Variable fixed width layout. Interesting, I didn’t notice that Rosenfeld was using this technique.≡ 9 Feb 2006
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Design Melt Down. Design Melt Down. I’m appreciating the attention to color palettes.≡ 9 Feb 2006
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Clearbits. Free color-customizable icon set: Clearbits. This uses the “Magic Icon” technic described by Dan a few years ago. If you like the style of these icons, you may also appreciate Biticons, or the more controversial article on DIVless layouts by the same random dude.≡ 8 Feb 2006
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Amazing Photos of China. Amazing Photos of China. Beam me up, please.≡ 8 Feb 2006
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Hundreds of New Species Found in New Guinea. Hundreds of New Species Found in New Guinea. Including some weird mothers. Update: National Geographic has some more photos.≡ 7 Feb 2006
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Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2. Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2 for Windows released today. Updates include a bittorrent client, “widgets”, and many user-interface udpates.≡ 7 Feb 2006
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Gtalkr. Gtalkr. Combines Gmail, Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, and Newsfeeds into on flash-based app.≡ 7 Feb 2006
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Man Accidentally Smashes Qing Dynasty Vases. Some guy visiting the Fitzwilliam Museum, tripped, fell down a staircase and smashed three rare Chinese vases. Bummer dude. Later, the man received a letter from the director of the museum kindly asking him “not to visit the museum in the near future.”≡ 7 Feb 2006
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In Search of the Holy Grail. Matthew Levine lays out a possible end to the search for the holy grail of web design layout.≡ 7 Feb 2006
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NYT Announces Gmail Chat. NYT Announces Gmail Chat. Chat through your browser. Update: Google’s updated their help files.≡ 7 Feb 2006
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Aronnax's Firefox Themes. GrApple has some fantastic-looking Mac OS X Firefox themes: Aronnax`s Firefox Themes. Now, if I only had a Mac…≡ 7 Feb 2006
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Six degrees of Wikipedia. Six degrees of Wikipedia. This makes me giggle like I’m in Junior High.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Alternatives to innerHTML. Alternatives to innerHTML, specifically standards-based DOM-oriented scripting.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Speed Reading. Speed Reading. Advice from a Princeton Seminary grad.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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VMware Server. VMware Server. Now available for free.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Becoming an Email Ninja. Becoming an Email Ninja. A re-cap of recent email productivity tips from Merlin.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Helldesign. Helldesign. Slick!≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: Dashes. Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: Dashes. A good refresher on Hyphen, En Dash, and Em Dash usage. Via.≡ 6 Feb 2006
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Blogneato JSON Syndication. Blogneato JSON Headlines. Heavy whipped this up today, and I promptly added it to the side bar. Cool huh?≡ 3 Feb 2006
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Encapsulating Ajax XMLHTTPRequest Calls within JavaScript classes. Encapsulating Ajax XMLHTTPRequest Calls within JavaScript classes.≡ 2 Feb 2006
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International Real Estate - Islands for Sale Worldwide. International Real Estate - Islands for Sale Worldwide. Ever want to buy an island?≡ 2 Feb 2006
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Gruber Officially Joins The Deck. John Gruber’s Daring Fireball officially joins The Deck.≡ 2 Feb 2006
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Baptism of Christ to be Featured on Maltese Euro Coins. Baptism of Christ to be featured on Maltese euro coins.≡ 2 Feb 2006
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Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?. Definition lists - misused or misunderstood? I’ve been doing some thinking on DL, DT, and DD usage. More on this in a later post.≡ 2 Feb 2006
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SimpleTicket. SimpleTicket. “Open Source Trouble Ticket System for Small & Medium Sized Businesses.” Nice simple interface.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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Worst-Selling DVD's at Amazon. Worst-Selling DVD’s at Amazon. Somebody needs to stop making Hammy the Hamster. Via.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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Google Redux. Google Redux. Whether you agree with Andy or not, it’s a fun read.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams. Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams after 145 years. What is this world coming to? Via.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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Ganging your mosquito tasks. Ganging your mosquito tasks. Some more great advice from Merlin on making sure your task list isn’t too granular.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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IE7 Font Rendering. The recent IE7 Beta has really nice font-rendering. I didn’t want to be impressed, but I am. Here’s a screenshot of Jayber, using the IE7 beta. Smooth edges, huh? I can’t find any details about the rendering engine used in IE7. I assume it’s been mostly re-written. Anyone know? I noticed that the IE controls in Outlook and FeedDemon are using the new engine as well.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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A genius explains. Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant, describes his condition in a recent Guardian piece. Tammet can speak 7 languages, can recall pi to 22,514 decimal places, but can’t tell right from left, drive a car, or wire a plug. Quite an amazing story of both astounding talent, and real-life disability.≡ 1 Feb 2006
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Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview. Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview. The RSS feed reader looks pretty good. The rest of it seems to look and behave like the old crappy IE we’re all used to.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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SupersizedMeals.com. SupersizedMeals.com - Foodstuffs of Epic Proportions. This is downright nasty. I love it.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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CSE - Research Areas. CSE - Research Areas. I get to pick from one of these for my Master’s thesis, and am having trouble. So many great areas!≡ 31 Jan 2006
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Memoirs, Great Archive Navigation. Memoirs. Nicely-designed blog, and I really like the method for navigating the archive. By chronology, and by taxonomy.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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Getting to Grips with LaTeX. Getting to Grips with LaTeX. This is coming in especially useful right now for me at school.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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AJAX: Getting Started. AJAX: Getting Started. From the Mozilla Developer Center. Great design (of the MDC) by the way.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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Waterfall 2006. Waterfall ‘06: International Conf. on Sequential Development (humorous). Heh, “User Interaction: It Was Hard to Build, It Should Be Hard to Use”.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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Text To Speech. Last night, I added Text To Speech (TTS) functionality to Jayber which was somewhat arduous. Try it out and let me know what you think. The entries that are particularly funny to listen to are the ones that make liberal use of slang. Try Mr. Afro’s Barbershop, Skim Shady, My Pimpin’ Ride, or Burrito Bandit, for instance.≡ 31 Jan 2006
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Federer defeats Marcos Baghdatis and wins Australian Open. Federer defeats Marcos Baghdatis and wins Australian Open. Federer’s Grand Slam record: 2 Australian Opens, 2 US Opens, 3 Wimbledons, and 0 French Opens.≡ 30 Jan 2006
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Standpoint. Standpoint let’s you A) stand up for your convictions; B) build the case for what you care about; and C) share what you believe.≡ 30 Jan 2006
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Nickelback Mix. Nickelback Mix. Thanks to anderiv for digging up this one.
Some guy out on the SA forums took [two of Nickelback’s] hits and mixed them down into one mp3. One of their songs plays in the right channel and one in the left. Normally, doing this with two songs would produce something that is completely un-listenable. Not so with Nickelback. The songs are in the same key, have the same tempo, and use the same chord changes.
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Braces Become Teen Fashion Fad in Thailand. Fake braces become teen fashion fad in Thailand. And people who make fake dental gear could spend time in the slammer.≡ 26 Jan 2006
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Linux Memory Model. Explore the Linux memory model. An article from the IBM Linux Technical Library by Vikram Shukla.≡ 26 Jan 2006
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Jayber Design Updates. I updated some small design details on Jayber. I can’t decide if I’ve hurt or helped my cause. I added a main border, and toned down some of the shadow intensities. Someone please help me—I have absolutely no idea what the hek I’m doing.≡ 25 Jan 2006
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Cat Helmet. How to make a Cat Helmet (“Feline Protection and Enhancement System”) from an Orange peel.≡ 24 Jan 2006
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Audition. It’s Korean, it’s beta; it’s a massively multiplayer online dancing game similar to Dance Dance Revolution, but with like 50,000 people. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce, Audition. T3sk3y, I’m looking in your general direction.≡ 23 Jan 2006
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Free DSP, Electronic, and Math Books. Free DSP, Electronic, and Math Books. I’m finding The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing most useful.≡ 23 Jan 2006
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"The city as an avatar of itself". “The city as an avatar of itself”. Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs that look strangely like scale models. Via Waxy.≡ 23 Jan 2006
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Mystickies. Sticky notes for the web: Mystickies.≡ 23 Jan 2006
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Know Your Type. Know Your Type. Starting points for typographic inspiration.≡ 22 Jan 2006
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Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs. Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs. Hah, hah. Wait, I don’t get it.≡ 20 Jan 2006
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Lego Harpsichord. In two years’ time, Henry Lim has created a Harpsichord built entirely of Legos (leave the strings). He’s got an audio clip to prove that it works, which sounds like absolute crap. Props for the effort though.≡ 20 Jan 2006
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SomaFM. I haven’t listened to SomaFM in a while, but in the last few days, due to my need for getting in the zone, I’ve been listening, and loving it. If you’re new to SomaFM and want some solid grooves to study, or code to, I recommend Groove Salad.≡ 18 Jan 2006
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In Praise of Slow Design. In Praise of Slow Design. Michael Bierut’s analysis of how the New Yorker’s design has (very, very) slowly evolved over the last 80 years. Got me thinking about Cameron’s recent excellent piece in A List Apart.≡ 17 Jan 2006
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No sampling, please.. Pretty funny photoset on Flickr titled, “no sampling, please.” This one’s for you, Blogneato.≡ 16 Jan 2006
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Free Stock Photos. Here’s a list of sites that offer free stock photos for Graphic Designers and Web Designers.≡ 16 Jan 2006
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New Camry Unveiled. At the Detroit Auto Show this week, the New Camry was unveiled. I really like the rounded grill, longer wheel base, and the fact that they’re going to offer a version of it as a gas/electric hybrid. There’s a reason this is America’s most popular car.≡ 15 Jan 2006
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Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software. Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software. Self-explanatory.≡ 13 Jan 2006
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Breaking News: Slashdot Not Dead. Breaking News: Slashdot Not Dead. Kottke gives a bandwidth analysis of a piece that was featured on both Digg and Slashdot and how that compares to recent data highlighted on Alexa.≡ 13 Jan 2006
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Photo Essay. Argentine Family Photographs Themselves Once a Year Since 1976. Titled “Time”.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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Bellygraph. Bellygraph - Have a laugh while you graph. Some of the examples are pretty funny.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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Top 10 websites you should know about. Top 10 websites you should know about.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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Blummy. Blummy - The bookmarklet management bookmarklet. Cool that you can define your own (MT, WP, etc.).≡ 12 Jan 2006
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Music Search. Music Search. A clever way to search for music hosted elsewhere on the web. How useful! Hopefully this guy doesn’t get sued.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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555 Design. 555 Design. Sweet-daddy “dirty” CD covers.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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2BrightSparks SyncBack. 2BrightSparks makes one of the best WinXP backup utilities and it’s free. I’ve been using it for some time and really love it. It’s nice to see all the attention it’s been getting lately. Although, it doesn’t do anything rsync/cron can’t.≡ 12 Jan 2006
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Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive. Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive≡ 12 Jan 2006
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The Prejudice Map. The Prejudice Map. Found by typing things like “germans are known for *” into a Google search. Quite interesting.≡ 11 Jan 2006
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Zipcar. The University of Minnesota is launching a new Zipcar service. You can sign up for a measly $30/yr and start reserving transportation. Not bad.≡ 11 Jan 2006
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Package Mapper. Package Mapper. Shows you a Google map of your FedEx, UPS, or USPS package route. Definitely worth a shout-out.≡ 11 Jan 2006
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New Firefox Extension: X-Ray. A new Firefox extension from Design Meme called X-Ray lets you see the underlying tags used on a web page without viewing source.≡ 11 Jan 2006
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VOCO. Just say it. VOCO gets it. New product debuted at CES last week. Won’t be available until the end of 2006.≡ 11 Jan 2006
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Optimus keyboard. The Optimus keyboard is coming Feb 1. Check the Russian upper-case screen shot.≡ 10 Jan 2006
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Best of CES. Best of CES Awards. CES is the Consumer Electronics Show that was held this year in Las Vegas.≡ 8 Jan 2006
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Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever. Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever. Including shrimp, sushi, rubber duckies, and a Barbie where the head rips off to expose the plug.≡ 8 Jan 2006
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Mogo Mouse. Mogo Mouse. Business-card sized, charged via PCMCIA, and uses Bluetooth.≡ 5 Jan 2006
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Snakes and Rubies. Snakes and Rubies. A comparison of Ruby on Rails (David Heinemeier Hansson), and Django (Adrian Holovaty).≡ 5 Jan 2006
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Chuck Norris Facts. Chuck Norris Facts. “Someone once tried to tell Chuck Norris that roundhouse kicks aren’t the best way to kick someone. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made. “≡ 5 Jan 2006
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37signals tools. 37signals has published a list of tools they regularly use to do development and run their business.≡ 4 Jan 2006
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Kottke's 2005 Favorites. Kottke’s 2005 Favorites Music, Movies, Books, and Weblogs.≡ 4 Jan 2006
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700 Free Icons. Silk Icons. 700 free PNGs, for any use.≡ 29 Dec 2005
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Associated Press Top 10 News Stories of 2005. Associated Press Top 10 News Stories of 2005:
- Hurricane Katrina
- Papal Transition
- Iraq
- Supreme Court
- Oil Prices
- London Bombings
- Asian Quake
- Terri Schiavo
- CIA Leak
- Bush’s Struggles
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Pittsburgh Bodyslam. “Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison slams a fan to the turf after he ran onto the field during the fourth quarter of the Steelers’ 41-0 NFL win over the Cleveland Browns Saturday […]”≡ 29 Dec 2005
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FeedDemon 2 Screenshots. Nick Bradbury just posted some FeedDemon 2 Screenshots which won’t be out until early 2006. I can hardly wait.≡ 27 Dec 2005
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Leap Second. “Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first ‘leap second’ in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth’s rotation.”≡ 26 Dec 2005
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Feed Icons. Feed Icons — Help establish the new standard.≡ 23 Dec 2005
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Dungy's son, 18, found dead. Tony Dungy’s son, 18, found dead in Tampa suburb.≡ 22 Dec 2005
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Visual Complexity. Visual Complexity. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. The Code Profiles one is flippin’ sweet.≡ 22 Dec 2005
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Double-Mouthed Fish. Double-Mouthed Fish Pulled From Nebraska Lake. Olberding—who caught the fish—said, “I’m going to smoke it up and eat it,”≡ 22 Dec 2005
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PocketMod. PocketMod disposable personal organizer. If you want to make one, they’ve got a nifty flash app that lets you design and print your own.≡ 22 Dec 2005
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Smoking Santa. Kindergarten children watch a Santa Claus smoking a cigarette.
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Information Architecture. Intro to Information Architecture.≡ 20 Dec 2005
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Writing a One-Draft Ph.D Thesis. Design: The Key to Writing (and Advising) a One-Draft Ph.D Thesis [PDF]. —John V. Carlis. Nice and pithy.≡ 16 Dec 2005
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Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'. Russian squirrel pack ‘kills dog’. “A ‘big’ stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked.” Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said “[…] If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests.”≡ 14 Dec 2005
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Wireless Hacking Tools. Essential Wireless Hacking Tools.≡ 13 Dec 2005
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Chicago Smoking Ban. “Chicago […] passed a law on Wednesday to ban smoking in most buildings and public spaces except for bars, where smokers can puff away until mid-2008.”≡ 13 Dec 2005
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Best Products Of 2005. Business Week Best Products Of 2005 including Photo Stamps, Land Roller, Motorola PEBL, and the Atari Flashback 2.≡ 13 Dec 2005
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Stanley Tookie Williams. Stanley Tookie Williams (co-founder of the Crips) was executed last night at San Quentin while supporters protested.≡ 13 Dec 2005
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Rapidograph Leakage. In my quest for the perfect pen, I recently bought a Rapidograph Koh-I-Noor technical pen which I’ve been loving except for the fact that it occasionally leaks, which obviously sucks. I just found out why.≡ 12 Dec 2005
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Symphony is Here. Symphony web publishing bliss. Always nice to see XSLT used for a templating language instead of some homegrown crap. Demo.≡ 8 Dec 2005
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Google Map Hack Blog. Google Map Hack Blog. A blog dedicated to Google Maps Mashups. I think Heavy should take his killer White Castle Finder to the nation and run for President.≡ 28 Nov 2005
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"I Stole Mail. This is my punishment.". The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to allow a California man to be sentenced to spend a day outside a San Fran post office wearing a sandwich board that says, “I stole mail. This is my punishment.” Chalk one up for Social Penology.≡ 28 Nov 2005
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Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser. Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser. Keep the “criminal inventions” coming, Harald.≡ 28 Nov 2005
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Design Refresh.
I went and updated the design again. I liked the last one, but it had a really fine sheen to it, which was much more polished than I actually am as a person. My intent is that hopefully this design (and the addition of a swappable photo) represents me in a more realistic way.
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Michael D. Brown LLC. Michael D. Brown (of FEMA infamy) to start emergency planning consulting business. IDWTGITPH, but this is a joke right?≡ 27 Nov 2005
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Phatterism. You gotta love the creativity behind this flash-based site, Phatterism. Props to pops for the link.≡ 22 Nov 2005
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PHP Ajax Sans XmlHttpRequest. PHP Ajax Sans XmlHttpRequest. Useful technique, especially if you want to support grandma’s browser.≡ 22 Nov 2005
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Press-Bot. Press-Bot. A Nalgene coffee press. This lovely delight has been moved directly to my christmas list.≡ 22 Nov 2005
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AJAX-S. AJAX-S. A lightweight slideshow based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Kind of like S5, but not. The coolest thing: it uses XML source.≡ 21 Nov 2005
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Nalbandian Wins Masters Cup. Argentina’s David Nalbandian surprisingly beat Roger Federer in the 2005 season-ending Masters Cup. Rediff has the story in photos.≡ 20 Nov 2005
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Riffs Social Recommender. Riffs. The author, John Hicks says, “Riffs is a recommendations engine, a place to rant and rave about anything, recommend and get recommendations.” It’s still in alpha but If nothing else, you gotta respect Hicks’ design.≡ 18 Nov 2005
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Famous Press Photos. Famous press photos from the last 50 years. Some of these are absolutely shocking.≡ 18 Nov 2005
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Google Analytics. Google just released Google Analytics. Ars Technica has the story. I’ll be signing up immediately. Thanks to anderiv for keeping me up to date on world events.≡ 14 Nov 2005
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WWE wrestler found dead. Eddie Guerrero died last night. My friend MJC happened to be on the same plane from Phoenix as Eddie on Saturday evening and was telling me about it after I picked him up from the airport. Little did we know Eddie’s life would end only a few hours later. Crazy stuff man.≡ 13 Nov 2005
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Tape It Off The Internet. Tape It Off The Internet, or “Tioti” is some sort of TV torrent-based social-network. There isn’t yet a beta and right now it’s all hype. Interesting concept if you like to waste time watching TV.≡ 12 Nov 2005
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Mozy. Free online backup: Mozy. The only catch: they advertise via email. I’m trying it out right now. So far, so good.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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Flying Deer Strikes Motorist. Motorist struck by flying deer. “Motorist Robert Brooks thought he hit a deer. That is, until he got out of his car and the deer hit him.” Wrong place, at the wrong time, I guess.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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French Violence Fading. Firebombings, looting, and fierce street fights between vandals and police are appearing to subside says the Boston Globe and Jacques Chirac admits that France has “undeniable problems”.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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Polite Canadian Robber. A Canadian bank robber, who politely presents a hold-up note on a recipe card, has hit 29 banks in four months.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die. Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die. “Just because technology makes it possible for us to work 10 times faster than we used to doesn’t mean we should do it.” Amen and amen.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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CSS Reference Sites. CSS Reference Sites. Captain, I think we hit the mother lode.≡ 10 Nov 2005
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Coleman and Rybak Victories. Coleman and Rybak coast to victory in the St. Paul and Minneapolis mayoral elections, respectively. Randy Kelly is a victim, I tell you!≡ 9 Nov 2005
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Bruce Cockburn: Speechless. Bruce Cockburn has a new instrumental disc out, Speechless. Cockburn is pretty decent—especially if you’re a socially-liberal Canuck. I may have to pick this one up, aye.≡ 9 Nov 2005
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CSSVista. Cool Windows CSS tool: CSSVista which allows live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. Note: Requires .NET 2.0.≡ 9 Nov 2005
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Name Voyager. Cool flash app that shows how name popularities change with respect to time. It’s called the Name Voyager.≡ 9 Nov 2005
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Vatican Defends Darwin. The Vatican has issued a statement defending Darwin’s theory of evolution stating that “the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin’s theory of evolution [are] ‘perfectly compatible’ if the Bible [is] read correctly.”≡ 9 Nov 2005
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History's Worst Bugs. Wired News: History’s Worst Software Bugs. I didn’t know about the Soviet gas pipeline thing—yikes.≡ 8 Nov 2005
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Upcoming.Blogneato. Heavy just created a nifty social events calendar. He says, “If you’re in the Minneapolis area and your hands hurt from sitting on them all the time, allow me to whet your social whistle.”≡ 8 Nov 2005
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Copy Goes Here. Coudal Partners: Copy Goes Here. Or was it over there?≡ 7 Nov 2005
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Somali Pirates. Somali pirates attack luxury cruise liner in the Indian Ocean. Note to self: cancel 2006 horn-of-Africa tour.≡ 7 Nov 2005
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Earliest Christian church. Earliest Christian church found in Israeli jail. “Archaeologists suggested the mosaic was the earliest site of Christian worship yet found in the Holy Land.”≡ 7 Nov 2005
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Bound for Asia. Kottke and Meg are off to Asia. I’ll look forward to some good photos. Just don’t eat the Kimchi.≡ 5 Nov 2005
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Gospel Spectrum. Gospel Spectrum. Visual representation of the harmony of the Gospels.≡ 4 Nov 2005
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Yahoo! Maps. Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic. Beta. All done in Flash. Pretty impressive actually.≡ 3 Nov 2005
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10 Tips To A Better Form. 10 Tips To A Better Form. Another gem from Particle Tree. This will be useful as I need to generate a few forms in the upcoming weeks. Good to refresh my memory, learn about accessibility, and re-think semantics.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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Write effectively for the Web. Write effectively for the Web. Basics people. Straight basics.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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I want it that way. Alright. This is the funniest dang video I’ve seen in a long time: I want it that way. Two Chinese students passionately singing Backstreet Boys—and with choreography!≡ 2 Nov 2005
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Thriller. “Every Halloween in Lexington, KY, they block off the streets and recreate Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.” That’s it, I’m moving to Lexington.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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SimplytheBest Fonts Archive. SimplytheBest Fonts Archive. Free fonts searchable by category.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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Designing Scientific Posters. Designing Scientific Posters. Excellent template mid-way down the page. Right-on.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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Nightly News Online. Nightly News Online. Next week, ABC Nightly News will be streamed online after it airs.l Since I don’t have a TV, this may come in handy.≡ 2 Nov 2005
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Resources for Getting Things Done Online.
This has been floating around on del.icio.us and digg for the last few days: Resources for Getting Things Done Online.
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Nikon D200. The Nikon D200 was just announced. Digital Photography Review has a hands-on preview. Sweet moses.≡ 1 Nov 2005
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10 Free .NET Dev Tools. 10 Free .NET Development Tools. Good list. I’ve especially found Nant, Nunit, FxCop, and NDoc to be useful.≡ 1 Nov 2005
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Design Changes. I made a few design changes last night. The header has, [gasp] a butterfly. I know, I know, it’s ballsy and traditionally not very manly, but I ain’t compensating for nothin’, so let it be, OK? I also added a dynamic fade resizer on the Notice on the front page (look for the green apple). The notice is cool and all, and I want it there, but most people who re-visit the site don’t re-read that part; they just skip over it and get on to the rest of the content. So, by making it able to be dynamically shown, and hidden by default, it re-claims some screen space.≡ 1 Nov 2005
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Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism. Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism. “[He] was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning when he adjusted a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.”≡ 31 Oct 2005
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Bush nominates Alito. Bush nominates Alito to take Sanda Day O’Conner’s position in the Supreme Court.≡ 31 Oct 2005
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Road Trip. I’m on my way to Chicago right now (my wife is driving; I’m riding shotgun), and I’m online thanks to a handy Sprint PCS EVDO card from work (props to anderiv), and a power inverter thanks to the Hildens. Oh yeah, and I just got done slamming a sleeve of Spicy Cajun Pringles. This is the life, I’m telling you.≡ 28 Oct 2005
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Cheney's top aide resigns. Cheney’s top aide resigns. “Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, resigned on Friday after federal grand jury indicted him on charges related to the CIA leak investigation.”≡ 28 Oct 2005
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Supertacks. Supertacks. My friend Ryan Van Slooten’s band based out of Duluth, MN.≡ 27 Oct 2005
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New worries for S.Korea over national dish kimchi. New worries for S.Korea over national dish kimchi. “[…] authorities banned imports of the spicy pickled dish from China last week because samples contained parasites found in human excrement.” Huh. Weird. I actually like kimchi; had it the other week. Hopefully what’s imported to the US is the non-parasitic version.≡ 27 Oct 2005
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South Side redemption. South Side redemption. The Sox sweep the Astros to win the World Series.≡ 27 Oct 2005
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Flickr Prints. Flickr Prints. Now, you order prints of your photos online through Flickr and have them mailed to you or you can pick them up at your local Target.≡ 27 Oct 2005
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Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination. Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination. Back to the drawing board.≡ 27 Oct 2005
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Iran Leader Calls for Israel's Destruction. Iran Leader Calls for Israel’s Destruction. “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury, (while) any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad said.≡ 26 Oct 2005
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Kottke's Moustache!. Kottke’s Moustache!. So suave!≡ 25 Oct 2005
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Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign. Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign from ALA.≡ 25 Oct 2005
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Scott Schiller. I saw Scott Schiller’s site about a week ago, and was really impressed. Creative use of JS, and XMLHTTP to dynamically move things around.≡ 25 Oct 2005
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The Deck. The Deck, “the premier advertising network for reaching web and design professionals” was introduced today by the web design trifecta: A List Apart, 37signals and Coudal Partners.≡ 24 Oct 2005
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Venezuela Pumpkin Threat. Venezuela police scramble to squash pumpkins laced with messages inciting political rebellion against Hugo Chavez.≡ 24 Oct 2005
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Blogger "Recently-Updated" AJAX Feature. Matt pointed out that Blogger added a new feature to its front page that scrolls recently-updated blogs. This is one of the few examples of useful AJAX.≡ 24 Oct 2005
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Male Model Ball Boys. Next year at the WTA Championships, male fashion models are going to be ball boys. Hurrah! Let the sexism begin!≡ 24 Oct 2005
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Dennis Benson Redesign. Dennis Benson Piano Technician and Web Development Services redesigned last night. Nice work Dad!≡ 24 Oct 2005
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Man extends prison term to match Larry Bird's jersey number. Man extends prison term to match Larry Bird’s jersey number. “He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird’s jersey.”≡ 21 Oct 2005
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Crocheted infant Yoda ears. Crocheted infant Yoda ears. That kid’s gonna love seeing those pics again at high school graduation.≡ 21 Oct 2005
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Apple Aperture. Apple Aperture, released today.≡ 19 Oct 2005
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Hopeful Pilgrim. I just found Matt Ohlmstead’s blog: Hopeful Pilgrim. Matt is a friend of mine from church whom I look up to greatly. He recently raced the Twin Cities Marathon and posted about some lessons he learned during the race. Oh yeah, and his daughter, Mikalah has a blog too: Golden Poem, although I’m not sure if she’s still updating it.≡ 18 Oct 2005
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Fedora Install Slowness. I’m in the process of installing Fedora Core on an old crappy server right now. Estimated time remaining: 16,452 minutes. That’s 274.2 hours, or 11.425 days. Yeesh, I hope that’s wrong. Maybe if I’m lucky, It’ll finish before November.≡ 18 Oct 2005
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Made-up words in The Simpsons. Made-up words in The Simpsons. Where’s “Crapulence”?≡ 18 Oct 2005
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List of Free Win Dev Tools. List of Free Win Dev Tools. Including editors, compilers, tutorials, debuggers, installers, and diff utils.≡ 18 Oct 2005
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Windows GIMPshop. The Windows version of GIMPshop was just released. This is a hack of Gimp to make it look like and act like Photoshop. I’m impressed. Usability issues have been the main reason why I don’t use the Gimp. Maybe this will change it. If any of you photoshop peeps get a chance to check it out, let me know what you think.≡ 18 Oct 2005
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FBI: Violent crime rate declines again. FBI: Violent crime rate declines again. It’s still bad though: “One murder occurred in the United States every 32.6 minutes […]”.≡ 17 Oct 2005
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Meet the Life Hackers. Meet the Life Hackers [NYT]. How periodic distractions affect our productivity.≡ 16 Oct 2005
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New Strib Pages. New Strib Pages. The redesign was launched today of both the print and online editions.≡ 12 Oct 2005
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Syrian interior minister commits suicide. Syrian interior minister commits suicide. “Hours before the news broke, Kanaan spoke to a Lebanese radio station, denying reports in Lebanese media that he showed the U.N. investigators cheques paid to him by the late Hariri. ‘I think this is the last statement I might give,’ Kanaan said at the end of the phone interview with Voice of Lebanon.”≡ 12 Oct 2005
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Man coughs up screw after operation. Man coughs up screw after operation. Verhees (the man who had the surgery), said, “I have had a cold for the past few days. I had a terrible cough a few days ago. That’s when I suddenly felt something in my mouth. It turned out to be a screw.” Yikes!≡ 12 Oct 2005
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Stacks of Stuff. Photos of Stacks of Stuff (industrial theme) by Tom Gally. Also, Outdoor Sleepers from Kawasaki, Japan.≡ 12 Oct 2005
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Strib Redesign. Via Newsdesigner.com, I learned that the Star Tribune is redesigning both their online and print editions. Hip-hip Hooray. Here’s their fancy redesign page summarizing the changes to come.≡ 11 Oct 2005
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ALA: Greg Storey. One of my favorite writers on the web right now, Greg Storey, has contributed a new article to the the venerable A List Apart, titled “Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason)”. Essentially just stating the age-old advice for just about any project: define strategy and objective to stay focused.≡ 11 Oct 2005
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Ambient Findability. New article from Peter Morville over at A List Apart: Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks. O’Reilly is offering the first chapter for free [pdf].≡ 11 Oct 2005
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South Asia Quake. BBC’s in depth coverage of the South Asia Quake.≡ 10 Oct 2005
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Design Tweaks. I updated the design of the front page last night. Hopefully, it will be more usable as it’s no longer a massive list of a hundred-thousand links. Nobody scrolled down to the bottom anyway.≡ 10 Oct 2005
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Google Reader. Google just released a Reader app. It’s unique in that it uses a concept of a lens, where you magnify a particular story. You have to see it to understand it. Also, they have some useful short-cut keys for navigation through the list using only the keyboard.≡ 7 Oct 2005
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Placeopedia. Placeopedia. Connects Wikipedia articles with their locations.≡ 7 Oct 2005
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Catholic Church and the Bible.
Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible. “The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. […] The Bible is true in passages relating to human salvation, they say, but continue: ‘We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters.’” The title of the new publication: The Gift of Scripture.
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Swedish Unconciousness. A Swedish hunter gets knocked unconcious after his son shoots a flying Canadian Goose which fell onto his head.≡ 5 Oct 2005
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Fad.tastic. Fad.tastic: a “multi-author web design community commenting on the current trends from the web design world.”≡ 5 Oct 2005
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Google/Sun Announces a Yawn. The much-rumored content of the joint Google/Sun announcement today was… yawn… pretty cool, I guess: Google will distribute Java. Whoop-di-doo.≡ 4 Oct 2005
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Next Up, Google Office?. Google and Sun are going to release a statement today regarding a “joint effort”. What will this be? Internet News is thinking it could be “Google Office” based on StarOffice and OpenOffice to compete with MS Office.≡ 4 Oct 2005
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Maoist Masthead Clip Art. A Cultural Revolution-Era collection of newspaper masthead clip art approved by Mao Zedong in 1971 (cp).≡ 4 Oct 2005
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Visual Thought. Here’s a cool diagramming tool: Visual Thought. It does Entity Relationship (ER) modeling, so it’s perfect for some of the stuff I need to do for school.≡ 3 Oct 2005
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OJ Halloween Show Appearance. OJ Simpson recently made an appearance in LA signing autographs at a Halloween show. Now, I don’t know much about personal marketing, or crafting a public image, but this seems a bit odd, doesn’t it?≡ 3 Oct 2005
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RadRails. A technology that I haven’t yet used, but desparately want to find the time to work with is Ruby on Rails. Targeting this framework is a new IDE called RadRails. It seems to be generating a lot of interest. The editor is based on Eclipse, and currently doesn’t have all that many Ruby-on-Rails-based features. I’ll give them a break though—they’ve only been doing development for 12 days!≡ 3 Oct 2005
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Zoho Writer.
Zoho Writer. Is it just me, or has there been a flurry of office-type AJAX apps released recently? Although I think AJAX is sweet, and these office apps are cool, how useful are they— really? Anyway, here’s another one to add to the mix: Zoho Writer.
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Writeboard.
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elfURL.
elfURL. A new site that makes long URLs short I found is called elfURL. It’s essentially the same thing as tinyURL, but includes a few new features. They claim that their URLs will never expire. Oh, and they offer some concept of statistics for links in their database. I’m not sure how useful that will be, but you gotta love their motto: “Statistics lie, elves never do.”
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Danish Air Force Compensates Santa. The Danish Air Force said Thursday that it paid $5,032 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus “whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.”≡ 29 Sep 2005
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I Am Forkbender.
Jason Santa Maria’s Photo of the day: I Am Forkbender.
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S5.
Some clever uses of technology just make me smile. Like Eric Meyer’s standards-based slideshow system: S5. Particularly interesting to me is the simplicity of design, that it’s standards-based, and accessible. It uses XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript and does a great job having highly semantic markup for the slides. Beautiful. Check out the introductory slideshow. Just use it like you would a Power Point presentation (space, down-arrow, right arrow, return, click, etc…).
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Writely.
There’s been a ton of new AJAX applications released recently, and I expect to only see the number of these increase. Here’s one: Writely — a web-based word processor that allows secure collaboration. And if you have a blog on Blogger, you can post there directly.
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<a title="600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578135,00.html">600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island</a>. A robot created by the Chileans and named “Arturito” which can detect stuff up to 50 meters below the earth’s surface was used to find 600 barrels of loot on Crusoe island. This is roughly equivilant to 10 billian dollars. “The stash includes 10 papal rings and original gold statues from the Incan empire.”≡ 28 Sep 2005
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<a title="Liquid Sculpture" href="http://www.liquidsculpture.com/">Liquid Sculpture</a>. Liquid Sculpture: A site dedicated to artistic photographs of drops, splashes, and liquids. Via Coudal.≡ 28 Sep 2005
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<a title="'Screw the nano'" href="http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/26/motceo/index.php?lsrc=mwrss">'Screw the nano'</a>. “Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?” — Motorola CEO Ed Zander.≡ 27 Sep 2005
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<a title="Caring for Your Introvert" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch">Caring for Your Introvert</a>. A friend from work sent this link: Caring for Your Introvert. Good quick read. I’ve always thought I’m an introvert, but a recent Myers-Briggs test confirmed that I’m slightly extroverted. I’m still figuring myself out.≡ 27 Sep 2005
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<a title="Studied Spaces" href="http://studiedspaces.blogspot.com/">Studied Spaces</a>. Our friends Matt and Chloe just started a pair of blogs, one for their personal life, and one for Chloe’s art. I added them to the Syndicated Feeds section and you can see a summary of the latest feeds for their blogs here and here.≡ 26 Sep 2005
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<a title="Patently Absurd Archive" href="http://totallyabsurd.com/absurd.htm">Patently Absurd Archive</a>. Check this out: The Patently Absurd Archive—an archive of (real) wacky US patented inventions. My personal favorites, Leaf Chaps, and Sunburn Cowboy. Shout-out to Dad for this gem!≡ 26 Sep 2005
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<a title="Vista Inspirat" href="http://crystalxp.zerackiel.net/bricopack-vista-inspirat.php">Vista Inspirat</a>. I just installed a new shell pack called Vista Inspirat. This is by far the best shell replacement I’ve used for Windows. This screen shot sums it up nicely. Note, the widgets at the top are from ObjectDock.≡ 26 Sep 2005
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<a title="Stardock - ObjectDock" href="http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/">Stardock - ObjectDock</a>. I found this cool little app called ObjectDock yesterday, and installed it. It’s actually pretty useful. I tend to get mesmorized by little bubbly, zoom in/out things, so I’m a fan. Here’s a screen shot.≡ 26 Sep 2005
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<a href="http://isaiah268.blogspot.com/2005/09/thank-you-lord.html">Evangeline Mattea</a>. Jacob and Sonja Broten just produced Evangeline Mattea, born at 8:55 PM on September 17th (7 pounds, 10 ounces). Congratulations guys! Also, Jacob just posted some pictures here.≡ 25 Sep 2005
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Reindeer Run.
Reindeer Run 2005. Registration is now open for the Reindeer Run 2005 in Minneapolis. The race is December 3rd at Lake Harriet. Mandy, Chloe, and I ran it last year and it was a blast. I’m extremely bummed that I won’t be able to run it this year—I’ve got graduate school classes all day.
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Syndicated Feeds Update. I just updated the Syndicated Feeds section. I removed a number of feeds and simplified it to just my friends, and a few blogs. The way I have the script set up, it caches feeds every hour. If no one has visited the page within the last hour, and you visit the page, the script will go out and fetch all the RSS feeds, cache them, and format them for display. Previously, I had something like 15 feeds configured, which would make the fetching process last about 20-30 seconds. With a reduced set of feeds, it should be more responsive.≡ 22 Sep 2005
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<a title="Web Developer's Handbook" href="http://www.alvit.de/handbook/">Web Developer's Handbook</a>. Good site I just found via delicious: Web Developer’s Handbook. Very useful.≡ 22 Sep 2005
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<a title="Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS" href="http://slashdot.org/articles/05/09/22/1324207.shtml?tid=124">Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS</a>. Last night, Slashdot finally moved to a CSS-driven layout. Congratulations! It’s about time.≡ 22 Sep 2005
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What Should I Read Next?. Here’s an interesting site that suggests what book to read next. If you enter a book and author that you like, it will spit out a list of recommendations. Here’s the result for “Jayber Crow”.≡ 22 Sep 2005
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<a title="Texans Flee Rita" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/21/rita/index.html">Texans Flee Rita</a>. Hurricane Rita’s barometric pressure near the eye of the storm has reached 897 millibars—the third most intense storm in history—as Texans flee.≡ 22 Sep 2005
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Redesign.
Well, as you can probably see, I redesigned the site. This is something I’ve been working on for a while, but I thought it was time to pull the trigger.
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<a title="Helvetica vs. Arial" href="http://www.engagestudio.com/helvetica/">Helvetica vs. Arial</a>. This is really funny. Helvetica vs. Arial. “Move your Helvetica character left and right with the mouse, beat Arial by jumping on it using the mouse button.” “Take the role of Helvetica, and let Arial know we don’t need its type around here.”≡ 19 Sep 2005
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<a title="IEBlog : Developer Toolbar for IE announced at PDC" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/16/469686.aspx">IEBlog : Developer Toolbar for IE announced at PDC</a>. An Internet Explorer developer toolbar was announced and released at PDC on Friday. I downloaded it an installed it. Alrhough I don’t use IE, I do make sure that designs I work on, display correctly in it. This seems like the kind of thing that should have been released a long time ago.≡ 19 Sep 2005
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<a href="http://jaber.org/">Jaber</a>. Our friends Rob and Jenny sent me a note yesterday that they were trying to get to this site (jayber.org), but accidently left out the “y” and typed jaber.org instead. Check it out. My favorite parts: 1) the window title says, “Hello world wide web”; and 2) the floating windows in the photo album. What a gem of a find!≡ 19 Sep 2005
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N. Korea Pledges to Drop Nuclear Program. Let’s just hope that North Korea is sincere when they said today that they are pledging to drop their nuclear program.≡ 19 Sep 2005
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<a title="Paragraph" href="http://www.paragraphny.com/">Paragraph</a>. Paragraph. A sort of mental fitness club for writers in NYC.≡ 18 Sep 2005
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<a title="Bad Start in Gaza" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402169.html">Bad Start in Gaza</a>. Gaza is off to a bad start as it’s “on the verge of anarchy” following Israel’s withdrawal as “rifle-brandishing militants” parade around wrecking stuff.≡ 14 Sep 2005
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Burrito Bandit - Google Search. Well, it’s not everyday you can say that your site is the number one ranking in Google for “Burrito Bandit”. Now I can.≡ 14 Sep 2005
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<a title="Dr. Grammar" href="http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/">Dr. Grammar</a>. Dr. Grammar’s Frequently Asked Questions≡ 14 Sep 2005
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<a title="Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II" href="http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/building_a_smar_1.html">Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II</a>. Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II From 43 Folders.≡ 13 Sep 2005
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<a title="Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I" href="http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/building_a_smar.html">Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I</a>. Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I From 43 Folders.≡ 13 Sep 2005
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<a title="Stevie's Little Wonder" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1103572,00.html">Stevie's Little Wonder</a>. Stevie’s Little Wonder An interview by Time with Steve Jobs of Apple, on the new iPod Nano. Interesting parts are quotes from Jonathon Ive (leads Apples Industrial Desin group) that give hints in to the Industrial Design that went in to the product, including subtle details like the finish, reveals (contact between surfaces), and raised artifacts on the buttons.≡ 12 Sep 2005
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<a title="Guardian Print Edition Redesigns" href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/editors/archives/2005/09/11/dont_hold_the_front_page_any_longer.html">Guardian Print Edition Redesigns</a>. Guardian Print Edition Redesigns With thoughtful commentary from City of Sound. Via Coudal Partners.≡ 12 Sep 2005
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<a title="Kick procrastination's ass: Run a dash" href="http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/kick_procrastin_1.html">Kick procrastination's ass: Run a dash</a>. Kick procrastination’s ass: Run a dash Good idea’s from 43 Folders on how to battle that ugly procrastination monster.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="Rubik's Cube Solver" href="http://wrongway.org/cube/solve.html">Rubik's Cube Solver</a>. Rubik’s Cube Solver /me removes brain, puts on shelf. I’m coasting from here on out baby. No more sleepless nights thinking of Rubik’s and riddles.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="What's Large and Where in the US" href="http://www.worldslargestthings.com/wllist.htm">What's Large and Where in the US</a>. What’s Large and Where in the US A site listing all the claims to “largest” stuff in the US. I, of course validated the source by making sure that the Worlds Largest Twine Ball Made by One Man (Darwin, MN) was given adequate props.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="Napkin Folding 101" href="http://www.customlinenservice.com/napkins.htm">Napkin Folding 101</a>. Napkin Folding 101 What more is there to say? My day is now complete.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="Bye bye blackboard …." href="http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/blackboard/">Bye bye blackboard ….</a>. Bye bye blackboard …. From the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="Origami Rhino" href="http://n.terry.free.fr/models/rhino/rhino.htm">Origami Rhino</a>. Origami Rhino I made like an infinity of those at scout camp.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond" href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?p=208#more-208">Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond</a>. Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond Sent to me from a co-worker. I needed something funny to laugh at today. Thanks Gary.≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a title="The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager" href="http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html">The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager</a>. The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager See how popular your name is as a function of time. I know this has been around a while, but it’s just so dang cool!≡ 9 Sep 2005
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<a href="/2005/08/doctor_visit.html">I just added a new entry to the "Brian" section. It was the first time that Brian was able to put pressure on his right leg and use a walker</a>. I just added a new entry to the “Brian” section. It was the first time that Brian was able to put pressure on his right leg and use a walker Jill had sent me an Email update a few weeks ago that somehow got lost. Sorry everyone, it’s probably my fault. I don’t know what happened.≡ 8 Sep 2005
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<a title="First Baptist web site for prospective Minister of Music and Worship applicants" href="http://www.dennisbenson.com/mm/">First Baptist web site for prospective Minister of Music and Worship applicants</a>. First Baptist web site for prospective Minister of Music and Worship applicants This is the church I grew up in. My dad is chairing the comittee to search for a new worship pastor.≡ 8 Sep 2005
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<a title="Lakview Inn, Willmar MN" href="http://www.lakeviewinnmn.com/">Lakview Inn, Willmar MN</a>. Lakview Inn, Willmar MN My Dad just finished this site and put it online.≡ 8 Sep 2005
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<a title="Jason Garren in NYC" href="http://homepage.mac.com/jvgarren/PhotoAlbum2.html">Jason Garren in NYC</a>. Jason Garren in NYC My cousin Diana’s husband Jason recently was hired as an intern for a production company (not sure which one) in NYC that makes shows for Bravo and small independent films. It seems like a great experience, but will require him to be away from family for 2.5 months. This website has family pictures that will be updated while he’s gone.≡ 8 Sep 2005
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<a title="Apple - iPod nano" href="http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/">Apple - iPod nano</a>. Apple - iPod nano Just released today. How sexy. I need to get one of these for my wife. Shhhh… don’t tell her.≡ 7 Sep 2005
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<a title="Detroit Typography" href="http://www.cellar8design.com/weblog/2005/06/detroit-typography.html">Detroit Typography</a>. Detroit Typography≡ 7 Sep 2005
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<a title="QOOP flickr Photo Printer" href="http://www.qoop.com/photobooks/flickr_user/index.php">QOOP flickr Photo Printer</a>. QOOP flickr Photo Printer. Now, you can print your Flickr photos directly to a perfect-bound book! $15.99 for 168 photos. Not bad considering that if you printed 168 photos at Walmart for $0.18 each, you’d be spending $30.24, and that’s without a photo album to hold them.≡ 6 Sep 2005
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbenson/tags/northwoodstriathlon2005/">More Northwoods Triathlon Photos</a>. More Northwoods Triathlon Photos. I just added 24 more that were taken by my Dad. You can view the entire slideshow here.≡ 6 Sep 2005
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<a title="Chief Justice Rehnquist has died" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/03/rehnquist.obit/index.html">Chief Justice Rehnquist has died</a>. Chief Justice Rehnquist has died. October 1, 1924 - September 3, 2005. He was 80.≡ 6 Sep 2005
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<a title="Was Katrina Intelligent Design?" href="http://www.desiringgod.org/library/fresh_words/2005/090205.html">Was Katrina Intelligent Design?</a>. Was Katrina Intelligent Design?. From John Piper, in response to NPR’s Daniel Schorr’s comments that if President Bush had correctly reflected his position on intelligent design and Katrina was the result of intelligent design, then “the designer has something to answer for.”≡ 6 Sep 2005
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<a title="A Weblog Entry About Weblog Entries" href="http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2005/08/28/entries.html">A Weblog Entry About Weblog Entries</a>. A Weblog Entry About Weblog Entries. This is why I have a mix of blog posts and residual links, similar to Kottke.≡ 2 Sep 2005
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<a title="God, New Orleans, and Repentance" href="http://isaiah268.blogspot.com/2005/09/god-new-orleans-and-repentance.html">God, New Orleans, and Repentance</a>. God, New Orleans, and Repentance. Yesterday, I sent an Email asking my friend JB (Brojac) about his take on this article. He Emailed his response, and posted an entry to his blog.≡ 2 Sep 2005
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<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1759825,00.html">Looting chaos hits New Orleans relief effort</a>. Looting chaos hits New Orleans relief effort. “Authorities are trying to evacuate all civilians from New Orleans” and “Tempers also were starting to flare along the rest of the Gulf Coast strip. Police said a man in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, shot and killed his sister in a row over a bag of ice. Dozens of carjackings were reported, including a nursing home bus and a truck carrying medical supplies for a hospital.”≡ 1 Sep 2005
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1,000 killed as Baghdad pilgrims panic. 1,000 killed as Baghdad pilgrims panic. “Up to 1,000 people were crushed to death or drowned after a rumour that a suicide bomber was about to detonate his explosives spread panic through a procession of one million Shia pilgrims in Baghdad yesterday.”≡ 1 Sep 2005
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<a title="Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/index.html">Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina</a>. Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina. A flash info-graphic.≡ 31 Aug 2005
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Syndicated Feeds.
I just added a Syndicated Feeds section to the site. It’s still experimental and I’m in the process of working out a few functional and usability issues, but read on for more technical description of the script, and what syndicated feeds are in particular.
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<a title="Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!" href="http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,68654,00.html">Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!</a>. Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!. So, I know this is all old news, but I ran across this article that Wired published yesterday about the recent aquisition of Flickr by Yahoo and the Flickr users that aren’t happy.≡ 30 Aug 2005
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Why This Band Plays On. Why This Band Plays On. Having recently attended “The Festival for Beatles Fans” in Chicago a few weeks ago, I was astonished by this very question: why the Beatles are still so popular. Mikal Gilmore from NY Times summarizes.≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a title="Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082900362.html">Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self</a>. Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self. Sad, sad, sad.≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4194698.stm">Hurricane set to lash New Orleans</a>. Hurricane set to lash New Orleans. “New Orleans may never be the same.”≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a title="At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/24/america/web.0824peru.php#">At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash</a>. At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash. There’s been a lot of plane crashes lately. IHT has a summary of crashes in the last month, and CNN has a summary of major crashes in the last 5 years.≡ 24 Aug 2005
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<a title="Google Talk" href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk just released</a>. Google Talk just released. I just downloaded it, but don’t have any friends to talk to. Anyone want to be my friend?≡ 23 Aug 2005
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<a title="Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center" href="http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/juveniles/">Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center</a>. Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center. My wife Mandy has worked as a chaplin for a Juvenile Detention Center and as a Social Worker for a halfway house for troubled-teens (most of them on their way in or out of jail). The stories told by Time are very similar to the stories Mandy has shared with me. How to discipline teens, and get them the help they really need, is a complicated and important issue. More Time photo essays here.≡ 23 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1549930,00.html?gusrc=rss">Despite penning a 528-page autobiography Victoria Beckham claims never to have read a book in her life</a>. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography Victoria Beckham claims never to have read a book in her life. Come on now. Tell me the truth. Seriously.≡ 22 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://desktop.google.com/features.html">New version of Google Desktop</a>. New version of Google Desktop. Now it’s got a side bar mode. Also, there has been speculation of an Instant Messaging client from Google that may be coming out soon as well. I think it’s a bit fishy that GDS out of the box has an option for searching through chat logs, but it’s disabled by default. Hmmmm….≡ 22 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1548054,00.html?gusrc=rss">Every man is an island</a>. Every man is an island. A man’s got to make an island for himself.≡ 20 Aug 2005
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<a title="Powerful quake shakes northern Japan" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/16/japan.earthquake.ap/">Powerful quake shakes northern Japan</a>. Powerful quake shakes northern Japan≡ 16 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1792162005">152 feared dead in Venezuelan air crash</a>. 152 feared dead in Venezuelan air crash. The pilot radioed before the crash, saying first one engine had failed, then both had failed.≡ 16 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html">Oral Histories From Sept. 11</a>. Oral Histories From Sept. 11. Compiled by the New York Fire Department and published by The New York Times.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language" href="http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/colorcode.html">Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language</a>. Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language. Each noun is color-coded based on a Google Image search of that noun. You can search around by meaning, or by color.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Historic home price increases" href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/15/real_estate/historic_home_price_gains/index.htm?section=money_topstories">Historic home price increases</a>. Historic home price increases. Midwest stats: home values climbed 12.1 percent during the last 12 months to $167,800. The national median price is now $208,300.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/14/hotel.package/index.html">"A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service contractor at a Washington hotel was the 'suspicious package' that prompted a building evacuation Sun. “A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service contractor at a Washington hotel was the ‘suspicious package’ that prompted a building evacuation Sunday afternoon”. Gee, I’m glad to see that our Secret Service agents are so careful.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/si/2005/golf/specials/pga_championship/2005/08/15/monday.recap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Phil Mickelson wins PGA Championship</a>. Phil Mickelson wins PGA Championship. “Phil Mickelson delivered another dramatic finish in a major on Monday, flopping a chip out of deep rough to 2 feet for a birdie on the final hole and a one-shot victory in the PGA Championship.”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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The Aug. 22 issue of The New Yorker. The Aug. 22 issue of The New Yorker, due out Monday, will contain ads only from Target Corporation. This is the first time in 80 years that the New Yorker has done this. “Target [however,] has been a sole sponsor before of issues of magazines, among them People.”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Less-Threatening Islamist Groups." href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/10ChrisWilkinson.html">Less-Threatening Islamist Groups.</a>. Less-Threatening Islamist Groups.. A list by McSweeny’s contributing writer, Chris Wilkinson. Some of my favorites: “Hamas and Garfunkel”, “Gene Loves Hezbollah”, “Balsamic Jihad”, and “Weird Al Qaeda”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Picasso on Costco" href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/12/news/fortune500/costco_picasso/index.htm?section=money_topstories">Picasso on Costco</a>. Picasso on Costco. What’s next? Caskets and Yellow Diamond Rings? Oh wait, they’ve already done that.≡ 14 Aug 2005
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<a title="Greece investigates plane crash" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4151398.stm">Greece investigates plane crash</a>. Greece investigates plane crash. “An investigation has begun into Greece’s worst ever air crash, in which all 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died.”≡ 14 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/news/america/elca.decision.on.gay.members.reflects.church.base.says.us.church/385.htm">ELCA Rejects Ordination of Homosexuals</a>. ELCA Rejects Ordination of Homosexuals. “Delegates to the national meeting voted Friday to remain unified despite their differences over homosexuality, and voted against the ordination of homosexuals in the ELCA.”≡ 14 Aug 2005
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<a title="Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005)" href="http://www.donaldweber.com/ukraine/">Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005)</a>. Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005). The Underclass and Its Bosses≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1547447,00.html?gusrc=rss">Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian</a>. Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian. And home at W3C.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today" href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fdny12.html">FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today</a>. FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today≡ 12 Aug 2005
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Yarnzilla. Yarnzilla. Freakonomics T. This is quite possibly the nerdiest piece of clothing on the planet.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081200004.html">Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss</a>. Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss. On the famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse symbolizing the end of WWII. Unfortunately, no one knows who the sailor was. More than 20 men that have come forward saying they were the sailor. Edith Cullen Shain (the nurse) says, “‘There were so many people kissing,’ she said, ‘I think they all believe they are right.’”≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys" href="http://www.funtalking.com/">Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys</a>. Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys. Numero Uno on my birthday list.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="HousingMaps" href="http://www.housingmaps.com/">HousingMaps</a>. HousingMaps. Dang dude. Downright slickety!≡ 10 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://12knotheel.blogspot.com/">Those crazy Olson's</a>. Those crazy Olson’s. are at it again. Ben, and Colin.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a title="US singer Cohn shot by carjacker" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4133832.stm">US singer Cohn shot by carjacker</a>. US singer Cohn shot by carjacker. After he made the hit “Walking in Memphis”, he was declared to be immortal. But surviving a shot to the head? Dang, I guess it is true.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a title="Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack" href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-08-09-voa13.cfm">Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack</a>. Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack≡ 9 Aug 2005
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Monson Wedding Photos. Monson Wedding Photos from this last weekend.. Taken by my buddy P.O. and his wife, Heather.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a title="Discovery Lands Safely in California" href="http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050809_sts114_touchdown.html">Discovery Lands Safely in California</a>. Discovery Lands Safely in California≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html">Google makes available news feeds in RSS and ATOM formats.</a>. Google makes available news feeds in RSS and ATOM formats.. For use with your favorite news reader. The Google blog has more info.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html">Calculator Heaven</a>. Calculator Heaven. Props to my friend, Curt M. for sending me this one.≡ 8 Aug 2005
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<a title="Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/07/jennings.obit/index.html">Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer</a>. Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer. 1938-2005≡ 8 Aug 2005
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<a title="Wired 13.08: Art Attack" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/bansky.html">Profile of Banksy in this month's issue of Wired.</a>. Profile of Banksy in this month’s issue of Wired.≡ 3 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/005707.php">I can honestly say that right now, at this moment, I'm drooling all over myself.</a>. I can honestly say that right now, at this moment, I’m drooling all over myself.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/WORLD/americas/08/02/toronto.crash/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Passengers, crew escape blazing plane</a>. Passengers, crew escape blazing plane. Amazing that all 309 survived.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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Air France jet burns. Air France jet burns after skidding off Toronto runway. More than 200 people were on board.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a title="Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse" href="http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/">Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse</a>. Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a title="Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last 24 hours" href="http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/24hours/">Flickr: interesting photos from the last 24 hours</a>. Flickr: interesting photos from the last 24 hours. And Clusters! Check out the one for “Urban”.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a title="50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com" href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/websites/">50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com</a>. 50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com. I can’t actually figure out when in 2005 this was published. Interesting nevertheless.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/space/shuttle/0,2895,68336,00.html">NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet</a>. NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet. “Until they can eliminate the hazard posed by debris falling off the space shuttle, NASA officials halt further flights.”≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://startribune.com/stories/509/5537334.html">Twins say Hunter broke ankle bone</a>. Twins say Hunter broke ankle bone. He’ll be on crutches for 3-4 weeks and may miss the rest of the season.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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First smokeless cigarette. First smokeless cigarette to go on sale. “The cigarette has been cleared for commercial release and should be on sale early next year.”≡ 1 Aug 2005
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Dentures Removed From Man's Bronchial Tube. Dentures Removed From Man’s Bronchial Tube. Only in Taiwan.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows" href="http://www.nvu.com/">Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows</a>. Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows Open Source, and version 1.0 is now available.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="India rain death toll nears 750" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/mumbai.rain/index.html">India rain death toll nears 750</a>. India rain death toll nears 750≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4734175.stm">King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies</a>. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. He was 82-84.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="Beautiful Interfaces with CSS" href="http://stopdesign.com/present/2004/ddw-seattle/beauty/">Beautiful Interfaces with CSS</a>. Beautiful Interfaces with CSS. God bless Douglas Bowman.≡ 29 Jul 2005
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Massive Shark Caught Off Martha's Vineyard. Massive Shark Caught Off Martha’s Vineyard. Straight wicked (© Greg Storey.)≡ 21 Jul 2005
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Time Away.
Things are going to be quiet around here for the next week. This afternoon, I’m leaving for Washington state to spend a few days camping and hiking around Mt. Rainier, and another few days at Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Mt. St. Helens.
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<a title="Joel Osteen's church (Lakewood) surpasses 30,000 worshippers a week." href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700437.html">Joel Osteen's church (Lakewood) surpasses 30,00. Joel Osteen’s church (Lakewood) surpasses 30,000 worshippers a week.. The church is growing so fast, it just moved in to the old Houston Rockets stadium (Compaq Center) with a capacity of 16,000.≡ 21 Jul 2005
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Download.com Redesign. Hey, not bad, although it’s got a little bit of a “too cool for school” attitude.≡ 21 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/WORLD/europe/07/21/london.tube/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Blasts reported in London</a>. “Four ‘explosions or attempts at explosions’ reported on three London subway stations and a bus, police say.”≡ 21 Jul 2005
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<a title="First Baptist Ukraine Team 2005" href="http://www.fbcwillmar.org/ukraine2005/">First Baptist Ukraine Team 2005</a>. My Dad is leaving for this trip tomorrow (Thursday).≡ 20 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2005/7/19/22140/9950">Fractals 101, Part 1</a>. I’m looking forward to part 3 where JD talks about using fractals to compress naturally-ocurring data. JD summarizes this by saying: “briefly, this boils down to trying to produce a fractal that is very close to what you want and optionally storing differences between the fractal and the original. The fractal and the differences will require much less storage than the original data.”≡ 20 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://moon.google.com">Google Moon</a>. In honor of the anniversary of the first landing on the moon by man (July 20th, 1969). Tip: zoom in all the way to see what the moon is really made of.≡ 20 Jul 2005
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<a title="Biblical scroll found in desert" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1529831,00.html?gusrc=rss">Biblical scroll found in desert</a>. Evidently the scroll contains a few verses from Leviticus written at “Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea, where Jews hid from the Romans in the second century.”≡ 19 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10761,1530636,00.html?gusrc=rss">Potter Sales</a>. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold more copies in a day than The Da Vinci Code sold in one year.”≡ 18 Jul 2005
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<a title="Firewheel Redesign" href="http://www.firewheeldesign.com/">Firewheel Redesign</a>. Hey, nice!≡ 18 Jul 2005
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<a title="What Makes Girls Play House and Boys Play War?" href="http://my.webmd.com/content/article/108/109020?src=RSS_PUBLIC">What Makes Girls Play House and Boys Play War?</a>. Results from a new study coming out in the July/August issue of Child Development says, “The reasons why girls and boys gravitate toward dolls or trucks may have more to do with genetics for girls and environment for boys […]”≡ 15 Jul 2005
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IBM to bury OS/2. It’s the end of an era, so to speak.≡ 15 Jul 2005
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<a title="stock.xchng" href="http://sxc.hu/index.phtml">stock.xchng </a>. More free stock photos.≡ 15 Jul 2005
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<a title="Yotophoto" href="http://yotophoto.com/">Yotophoto</a>. Free stock photos.≡ 14 Jul 2005
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NASA delays shuttle launch. “NASA on Wednesday delayed the launch of shuttle Discovery until next week at the earliest, postponing its first human space flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster due to a problem with a fuel sensor.”≡ 13 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://startribune.com/stories/917/5500154.html">Armstrong blows away rivals on Tour de France's first Alpine stage</a>. Lance Armstrong kicked straight arse today as he recaptured the yellow jersey by swiftly climbing 13.8-miles to the ski station of Courchevel.≡ 12 Jul 2005
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Vintage & Retro Posters. I especially appreciate the ones from Marc Chagall. I have a print of one of his paintings (The Birthday) in my dining room.≡ 12 Jul 2005
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<a title="BBC Releases new site devoted to Open Source" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/">BBC Releases new site devoted to Open Source</a>. Lists the open source projects that the BBC has initiated and managed.≡ 12 Jul 2005
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<a title="Variations of the Letter M" href="http://mic-ro.com/metro/metrologos.html">Variations of the Letter M</a>. Logos of metro stations from around the world.≡ 11 Jul 2005
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<a title="Odeo: Listen, Sync, Create" href="http://www.odeo.com/">Odeo: Listen, Sync, Create</a>. Its invite-only beta is finished and Odeo is now open to the public.≡ 11 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/age.html">Age-Maps</a>. “Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together.” Some of these look downright scary. Cool nevertheless.≡ 11 Jul 2005
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<a title="Arial or Helvetica?" href="http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/#">Arial or Helvetica?</a>. A Quiz. Lately, I’ve been going back to my purist roots (catalyst: The Helvetica Meditations), and have been working on fine-tuning my typographic sensibilities. I’m embarrased to admit that I scored 9/10.≡ 8 Jul 2005
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<a title="Live 8 Performance Downloads" href="http://www.sonician.com/live8/list.html">Live 8 Performance Downloads</a>. Hey, AOL actually did something cool!≡ 8 Jul 2005
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<a title="New Models for Design Efficiency" href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/004533.html">New Models for Design Efficiency</a>. Introducing Otto. This is the kind of stuff that software should be used for.≡ 8 Jul 2005
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<a title="Innocent Escapes" href="http://www.brawnyman.com/innocentescapes/indexbroadband.html">Innocent Escapes</a>. I can only wish that someday I might be this smooth.≡ 8 Jul 2005
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Google Toolbar for Firefox Released.
Google has released their toolbar, available in 10 languages for the Firefox browser, and available for 3 operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux).
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<a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/feeddemon_16_te.html">FeedDemon 1.6 is coming</a>. with a new ability to update inactive groups.≡ 7 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/">Gmaps Pedometer</a>. Let’s you measure the distance of your walk or run. I’ve already found a use for it. Mandy and I had thought that running from our house down the winding Theodore Wirth Parkway to Hwy 55 was 1.5 miles. I just found out it’s 1.88!≡ 7 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/london.tube/index.html">A series of explosions ocurred in London this morning during rush hour</a>. The explosions were coordinated and officials have shut down the tube and central bus service.≡ 7 Jul 2005
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Bush Involved in Bike Crash in Scotland.
President Bush collided with a local police officer and fell during a bike ride on the grounds of the Gleneagles golf resort while attending a meeting of world leaders Wednesday.
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New York Times reporter sent to jail in CIA name leak case. She was ultimately jailed because she wouldn’t break her promise and reveal her confidential source to the grand jury investigating the leak.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a title="A good overview" href="http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm">A good overview</a>. of the difference between the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a title="Now, Discover Your Strengths" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201140/qid=1120663359/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-5593309-6752051">Now, Discover Your Strengths</a>. My friend Jared (currently working on an MBA) just recommended that I read this book.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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Martha Stewart Interview.
She says that her nickname in prison was “M. Diddy” and regarding the electronic monitoring device on her ankle: “I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off. It’s on the Internet. I looked it up.
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<a title="BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Meth is 'biggest' US drug problem" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4654503.stm">Meth is 'biggest' US drug problem</a>.
Methamphetamine has overtaken cocaine as the biggest drug problem in the US, according to a major crime survey across 45 states.
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/crane.rescue.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Sleepwalker rescued from crane</a>. This can’t be real.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/eu_bins_swpat/">European Parliament rejects software patenting</a>. by a majority of 648 votes to 14.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/4655555.stm">London wins right to host 2012 Olympic Games</a>. Oh, look… yep… the French are pouting again.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a title="the CSS playground" href="http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/index.html">the CSS playground</a>. I especially like the sliding photo-galleries.≡ 6 Jul 2005
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<a title="AO/Technorati Open Media 100" href="http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=10852_0_5_0_C">AO/Technorati Open Media 100</a>.
Bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/4653515.stm">Armstrong takes lead</a>. in Tour de France after stage four.≡ 5 Jul 2005
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Too Much TV May Inhibit Learning. Is this really new news?≡ 5 Jul 2005
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Tropical Storm Cindy.
The third tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season rumbled north through the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, heading toward the Louisiana coast with high winds and heavy rain.
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4648001.stm">Anti-obesity device fakes satiety</a>. It’s like a pacemaker for your solar plexus.≡ 5 Jul 2005
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<a title="Guardian Unlimited Sport | Special reports | Flawless Federer can rewrite the record books" href="http://sport.guardian.co.uk/wimbledon2005/story/0,16055,1520761,00.html">Flawless Federer can rewrite the record books<.
World No1 produces a supremely confident display of grace and poise as he brushes aside Roddick to become only the eighth man to win the Wimbledon title three years in a row.
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<a title="Live 8 Recap: London's Hyde Park" href="http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000972862">Live 8 Recap: London's Hyde Park</a>.
An estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion people tuned in to Bob Geldof’s Live 8 spectacular yesterday (July 2) to witness rock’n’roll make history. Geldof, the Irish musician who masterminded Band Aid and the Live Aid concerts 20 years ago, conceived the multi-concert event as a political exercise to influence world leaders into making Africa a priority.
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/4644569.stm">Williams regains Wimbledon title</a>.
Venus Williams became Wimbledon champion for the third time with an epic win over Lindsay Davenport in the longest-ever women’s final.
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<a title="A pocket guide to inspirational sites" href="http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001581.php">A pocket guide to inspirational sites</a>. Good collection. Mostly highlights CSS and web standards.≡ 1 Jul 2005
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<a title="Interesting optical illusion" href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Emoraes/illusion.html">Interesting optical illusion</a>. Warning, may cause strabismus.≡ 1 Jul 2005
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<a title="Thai fishermen catch catfish believed to be world's largest" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/06/30/fish.ap/index.html?cnn=yes">Thai fishermen catch catfish believed to be world's largest</a.
Thai fishermen caught a 293-kilogram (646-pound) catfish that may have been the world’s largest freshwater fish, wildlife conservation groups said.
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Justice O'Connor Will Retire.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she will retire, letting President George W. Bush nominate a replacement and setting up a high-stakes political clash over the future of the Supreme Court.
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Color Scheme Generator 2. Color Scheme Generator 2. This is definitely my favorite web-based color schemer.≡ 1 Jul 2005
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Colour Lovers. Colour Lovers. Ahh… Finally home.≡ 1 Jul 2005
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Microsoft's Wheel of Color. Microsoft’s Wheel of Color. Good intro to color basics.≡ 1 Jul 2005
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<a title="Google Maps API" href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/">Google Maps API</a>.
The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed “info windows” just like Google Maps.
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Google Earth Launching For Free.
Google launches Keyhole 3 today, rebranded Google Earth, and are dumping the subscription rate (except for a $20/year “plus” versions with prettier pictures). […] The program lets you fly around a 3D globe, with overhead satellite photos, tilted 45-degree photos, 3D rendered buildings, and overlays that display everything from roads to hotels to bike routes.
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<a title="del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker :: Johnvey" href="http://johnvey.com/features/deliciousdirector/">del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker.
del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern browsers to deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts with a large number of records.
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<a title="Art of Science Competition / Gallery" href="http://www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/gallery/index.html">Princeton Art of Science Competition</a>.
[This is] imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science.
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<a title="National Weather Service weather radar images from Minneapolis, MN" href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/mpx.html">National Weather Service weather radar images from Minneapolis, MN</a>. My friend Matt, pointed me to this useful radar display for Central Minnesota.
It will overlay the base reflectivity with geographic data, rivers, highways, and severe weather warnings. It can also be used to provide rainfall, relative motion, GPS/distance information, and other data.
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<a href="http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002342.html">Design Cliches</a>.
This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. Those symbols which have been used so often that they’ve become clichés.
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Obesity costs soar tenfold to $36.5 billion in US. Well, we’ve finally reached it America. 30 percent of us are now obese.≡ 25 Jun 2005
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<a title="CNN.com - Rader pleads guilty to BTK murders - Jun 27, 2005" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/27/btk.killings.ap/index.html">Rader pleads guilty to BTK murders</a>.
Referring to his victims as “projects,” Rader laid out for the court how he would “troll” for victims on his off-time, then stalk them and kill them.
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1510857,00.html?gusrc=rss">Could bagels hold the key to human behaviour?</a>. I’m moving Steven Levitt’s book, Freakonomics up a few rungs on my reading list. Kottke had a decent interview with him as well a while back.≡ 21 Jun 2005
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Mississippi Jury Convicts Ex-Klansman. as he was wheeled away, emotionless, and breathing through an oxygen tube.≡ 21 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/US/06/21/missing.scout/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Volunteers find missing scout in Utah mountains</a>.
The 11-year-old boy missing for four days in rugged terrain of northeast Utah was today found cold and thirsty, but alive by two volunteer searchers on horseback. “A little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he’s currently in very good health,” Summit County Sheriff David Edmunds told reporters.
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<a href="http://www.gcensus.com">Combining US census data and Google Maps</a>. Hey, cool! There’s 56 people and 23 houses on my block. Census data is from the year 2000.≡ 21 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazine/investing/smartest/">Money Magazine: 50 smartest things to do with your money</a>. Also includes 15 dumb things to not do.≡ 20 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://gorillamask.net/flashndsoundboard.shtml">Napoleon Dynamite Soundboards</a>. A collection.≡ 17 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/roland-midi-accordian-108325.php">Sexy Accordian</a>. from Roland.≡ 17 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/BAaf?m=604">Dell interested in Mac OS X</a>.
Michael Dell has gone on record as saying that his company would be “happy” to sell Mac OS X. Of course, Apple’s stated disinterest in letting other companies sell OS X is another matter entirely.
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New Focus.
Some history and a new philosophy. I started this site almost a year ago, and until now, it’s served three primary purposes:
- Afforded me a sandbox to faddle with my shotty graphical designs.
- Provided a locus to post photos and stories re: family sentiments.
- Gave me a way to post recently-viewed and semi-interesting links.
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<a href="http://www.virtuoffice.com/node/view/241">How to get Slashdotted</a>. and other experiments in slashdottery.≡ 15 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/14.html#a3448">The Michael Jackson Verdict</a>. on The Daily Show.≡ 15 Jun 2005
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The Helvetica Meditations.
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Finland's Classical Musicians. Here’s some great photos of Finland and its music scene set to Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.≡ 14 Jun 2005
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The Economist has a report out on the field of Biomimetics. and a new term: “Biological Patents”:
These are not patents in the conventional sense, of course, since the information will be available for use by anyone. By calling biomimetic tricks “biological patents”, the researchers are just emphasising that nature is, in effect, the patent holder.
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<a href="http://www.shauninman.com/plete/">Shaun Inman Redesign</a>. My favorite part is the navigate / search at the top and bottom of the page.≡ 14 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/LAW/06/13/jackson.trial/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Jackson cleared</a>. on all 10 counts≡ 13 Jun 2005
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Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!. Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!, Google to censor China’s web Some of the banned words are, “democracy”, “freedom” and “human rights”.≡ 13 Jun 2005
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Police arrest killer cow. Police arrest killer cow Reuters - Nigerian police have arrested a cow that killed a bus driver who was urinating on a highway, a police spokesman said Thursday.
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Hindu mob attacks U.S. missionaries in Bombay. Hindu mob attacks U.S. missionaries in Bombay (Reuters) - Angry Hindu youths beat three American missionaries and tried to kidnap one as they held a bible studies class in Bombay, police said on Monday.≡ 13 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2083271">Tyson goes down, permanently.</a>. Well; so much for “The Baddest Man on the Planet”.≡ 13 Jun 2005
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Ajax On Rails.
Ajax On Rails. “Ajax and Rails - probably two of the biggest buzzwords in web development at the moment. In this article over at ONLamp, Curt Hibbs introduces the incredibly powerful Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. It’s a great read, and serves as a gentle introduction to the cool stuff you can accomplish with ease using the Ajax features of Rails.”
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<a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/casio/casio-exilim-exs500-107116.php">Casio Exilim EX-S500</a>. “Cute” is the only word I can think of to describe this burnt-umber gem.≡ 9 Jun 2005
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New Words.
New Words. “‘back, sack and crack’, ‘heteroflexible’, and ‘going commando’, are amongst the fledglings.”
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Israeli court rejects bid to overturn Gaza pullout.
Israeli court rejects bid to overturn Gaza pullout. “Israel’s highest court on Thursday rejected a bid by Jewish settlers to overturn legislation underpinning Israel’s planned withdrawal from Gaza, clearing the last major legal hurdle to a pullout in August.”
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<a href="http://www.phantomplate.com/">Phantom Plates</a>. To combat “Stop on Red” sillyness.≡ 9 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/stoponred/">Minneapolis has started its "Stop on Red" program.</a>. We’re at the beginning of the 30-day testing period, before the official police-state is established.≡ 9 Jun 2005
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Teenager gives birth at 85 MPH.
Teenager gives birth at 85 MPH. “An 18-year-old Thai gave birth in the passenger seat of a Mercedes Benz which was doing 85 miles per hour to try to get her to hospital in time.”
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<a href="http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast.cfm">CBC Radio 3 is podcasting</a>. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio 3 is releasing podcasts of 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists.≡ 9 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ndsound.php">Napoleon Dynamite Audio</a>. Do the chickens have large talons?≡ 8 Jun 2005
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<a title="The Blog of Henry David Thoreau" href="http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/">The Blog of Henry David Thoreau</a>.
methinks I should hear with indifference if a trustworthy messenger were to inform me that the sun drowned himself last night
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<a href="http://www.start.com/myw3b/">MS News Aggregator</a>. My prediction: some incarnation of this aggregator will be in IE7.≡ 8 Jun 2005
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Tyson Enters the Fight of His Life. Tyson Enters the Fight of His Life I don’t know why I even care, but I’m strangely interested to see how Saturday goes.≡ 8 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/007553.php">A letter from Mr. Leo.</a>. Let’s hear it for mutual cooperation!≡ 7 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1145689,00.html">First use of the word Podcasting</a>.. From the Guardian.≡ 7 Jun 2005
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An Australian woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish. An Australian woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish after custom officials were alerted by “flipping” noises coming from beneath her skirt as she arrived at Melbourne airport.≡ 7 Jun 2005
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Top 10 cars for men; top 10 cars for women.
Top 10 cars for men; top 10 cars for women.. Is there anything really new here? I mean come on. One interesting thing, however:
Dodge has stated outright that it designs and markets cars for men. So it has given us the Dodge Magnum, a muscle-car station wagon. It has also given us the new Dodge Charger, a muscle-car family sedan with four doors, roomy back seats and a nice trunk.
Clever, those Dodge boys. Clearly, they understand that, even though they are marketing cars to men, most men don’t just go out and buy cars on their own. They still have to get the thumbs-up from someone else.
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3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost. 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers’ Data Lost I’m glad I don’t have any account with Citigroup. Wait a minute… I do! Dang it.≡ 7 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://businesslogs.com/technology/appleintel_roundup_and_commentary.php">Decent round-up of the Apple news today</a>.. This is bad news for IBM, good news for Intel, and great news for me. I can’t wait to get my hands on an x86-based Mac.≡ 6 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://fbcfrance.blogspot.com/2005/06/france-team-was-commissioned-today.html">FBC France Team</a>. Is getting ready to leave this Friday.≡ 6 Jun 2005
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Google Launches Google Sitemaps.
Google Launches Google Sitemaps. “[A] service that allows webmasters to define how often their sites’ content is going to change, to give Google a better idea of what to index.”
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<a href="http://www.browsershots.org/">Coolio. Browsershots.</a>. On May 21st, there were 10000 jobs in the queue. Funny, there weren’t any when I tried. I got results right away. Is this some sort of web-enabled ghost town?≡ 2 Jun 2005
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Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats.
Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats. “According to an MSDN Channel 9 interview with an Office file-format developer, the next version of Microsoft Office (Office 12) will default to newly-developed XML file formats in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.”
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<a href="http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/">Mindset</a>. Intent-driven search from Yahoo research. I especially like the DHTML slider on the results page.≡ 2 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/01/2043242.shtml?tid=201">Longhorn drops "My" prefixes</a>. Yeesh. Finally.≡ 1 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/bts/production/f20050526/index.html">Star Wars Episode III: Easter Eggs</a>. If I go again, I’m going to look for these.≡ 1 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://www.poets.org/">Poets.org</a>. From the Academy of American Poets. Site newly re-designed.≡ 1 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://typographi.com/">Typographica</a>.
Typographica is a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
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<a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/01/080456.php">Church Trivia Competition in Stillwater, MN</a>.
The contest is under way, with the first question posted on the sign at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church: “Church Sign Trivia: List the 10 Commandments, in no particular order. Answer in one mile.”
A mile southwest is the answer on Bethany’s sign: “Trivia Answer: 3 6 5 9 10 4 2 7 8 1.”
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/finder/103-8618946-0587020?productGroupID=loose%5fdiamonds">Amazon Diamond Search</a>. Cool use of Ajax.≡ 1 Jun 2005
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<a href="http://jszen.blogspot.com/2005/05/why-google-maps-wins.html">Why Google Maps Wins</a>. By, The Strange Zen Of JavaScript≡ 1 Jun 2005
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<a title="Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide">Rwandan Genocide</a>. Saw “Hotel Rwanda” last night, and had to read up on some of the history of the 1994 genocide of almost 1,000,000 Rwandans.≡ 31 May 2005
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<a href="http://shufflehacks.blogspot.com/">Shuffle Hacks</a>. Dedicated to hacking, modding, and pimping the hoo-ha out of the iPod shuffle.≡ 27 May 2005
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<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/27/howto_convert_canned.html">HOWTO convert canned Guinness to popcicles</a>. [Boing Boing]≡ 27 May 2005
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Film/news/story/0,12589,1491784,00.html?=rss">CS Lewis film saves Disney from Christians</a>.
Film: A conservative Christian group has decided to end its nine-year boycott of Disney - thanks, in part, to the forthcoming film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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<a href="http://www.bartelme.at/articles_detail.asp?detail=38">Creating organic desktops</a>. From Bartelme.≡ 26 May 2005
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<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/shop/geeks/browse/Ne-25_N-3807_bt-2_pv-geekcheat.11507711">vi reference mug</a>. You gotta love it.≡ 25 May 2005
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<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7973283/">Explosion Causes Massive Power Outage in Moscow</a>.
No word yet on what caused the explosion, or when power could come back up. At least 43 trains and 40,000 metro passengers are stuck underground and there was city-wide gridlock as a result.
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<a href="http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html">How to abuse Amazon's image processing system</a>.
Many wacky things can be done by customizing the URLs of images loaded from Amazon.
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/business/25device.html">FDA meets with Guidant</a>.
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Spycams on Patrol. “Chicago’s two-fisted street cops have a new kind of backup: a citywide crime-fighting surveillance network.”
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Hugo Chavez.
Let them read Quixote. “The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has printed one million copies of Don Quixote to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Cervantes’ novel. This week they are being handed out free in public squares for the improvement of his citizens, while at the same time our politicians are also on the streets distributing material of infinitely less literary merit.”
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Details Emerge. Details Emerge of How Benedict Became Pope. “Orthodox Catholics have cause for great celebration,” said William Donohue, president of the U.S.-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. “Those who are not delighted need to do some real soul searching.”≡ 21 Apr 2005
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Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI Elected today. All indications are that this pope will be just as conservative as the last (which I view as a good thing). From the article: “[…] his papacy is sure to continue John Paul II’s strongly traditional interpretation of the Catholic faith, including opposition to abortion, homosexuality, priestly marriage and women priests.”≡ 19 Apr 2005
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