LINKS FROM April 2005
Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a "fuzzy" style.
43F Interview: Alcor, Developer of Quicksilver
"Our first 43 Folders interview is with Alcor, the developer behind our favorite productivity app, the mighty Quicksilver."
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For years, Default Folder has helped speed Macintosh users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files.
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NYTimes: "It's going to come down to how your behind looks when you pour yourself into them. No matter how good the wash or the detail or the label, if it doesn't look good on a behind, it won't sell."
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From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac
New York Times review of Tiger by David Pogue
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"The two places I've found that I use them the most are in Mail and the Finder, so I'll just run over the best applications I've found. If you find another, feel free to leave a comment."
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184 Manually selected Style Sheet Resources
Sorted by category
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Create a box with a background color that fades away
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Your Source for Laboratory Notebooks, Custom Lab Books and Record Books
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Plasticbag.org: "The weblog becomes and extension of yourself. A suit you wear, if you will. It's like you're controlling a whole prosthetic version of yourself."
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Inside TV markets itself as a "TV Guide for women."
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This utility cleans and compresses your CSS in a variety of ways, significantly optimizing and reducing its size at the expensive of readability.
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MP3s gathered from blogs across the web.
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Good Casino Ads / Bad Things for Someone to Say About Your Mom.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Sundays are still TRIPLE ENTRY DAYS!"
Titles of Sermons to Which Congregants Might Actually Pay Attention.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "The Ten Commandmentsâ€â€Loopholes And Safe Harbors: The Technicalities You've Never Thought Of"
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Pub chef bitten by deadly spider
A chef bitten by a deadly spider in his pub kitchen was saved after experts were able to identify the creature from a picture on his mobile phone.
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God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large
"If you conservatively assume that these are the End Times and that Jesus will soon be completely consumed . . . then he weighs twenty million times more than you, and contains ninety-two
Tips & Tweaks: Essential Web Sites
PCWorld: "There are the things you need; and then there are the things you didn't know you needed until you bumped into them on the Web. Here are a slew of sites I've come to love."
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A bittorent site
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A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones
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The largest job database on the planet
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The Most Expensive Zip Codes 2005 - Forbes.com
94027 Atherton, CA tops the list with the most famous, 90210 coming in at 15.
A complete collection of del.icio.us tools
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"1. Don't let any material thing come into your home unless you absolutely love it and want to keep it until it is beyond repair."
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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
"One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site!"
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Coolest feature/plugin/etc of Quicksilver is?
Lots of cool little Quicksilver tricks.
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Backpack Preview #4 (the last preview): The Backpack Manifesto
Your information is everywhere. Scattered across notebooks, emails, post-it notes, and god knows where else. With Backpack, there’s a better way. Now Information is easy to organize, centralize, and retrieve. Information works for you instead of vice ve
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Rare mixes, mastermixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio from the mid-80s converted to MP3.
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Signal vs. Noise: "A "bud vase feature" is functionality outside the core purpose of a product that evokes emotion about the product, and allows the user to express their personality or character in their use of the product."
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The No. 1 Gesture That Sparks Love
There's almost nothing sexier for a man than when a women looks him straight in the eye and holds that gaze.
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John Taylor Gatto: "Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are:"
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Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?
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Electronic, kind of in a Postal Service'y/Notwist sort of way.
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Kottke's High Line post complete with links post explaining how to get up there.
Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More
Dan Dickinson: "This is an intermediate Quicksilver tutorial, to help people who went through my first tutorial and are looking for a little more in-depth information about how to tweak Quicksilver."
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If you type words into your Firefox address bar it does an "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search.
Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation
The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Mother, Jugs, and Lone Star Beer
Sarah Hepola follows Elisabeth’s life and lets you make the tough choices for both of them. In this installment, Elisabeth tries to figure out why her mom calls six times a day. You decide what happens next.
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Wired: "But for me, Tiger is about Spotlight, the improved Mail and the great widgets I know the Mac community will come up with."
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MacDevCenter: "Since Apple has been releasing new versions of Mac OS X on a similar cycle, I've used the pending upgrade as an excuse to tidy up before installation. That will be my approach with Tiger, and that's what this article is about."
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My Own Take on Marketing Writing
O'Reilly Radar: "It's a challenge as a writer to craft a message that hones and compresses what's important down to its essentials, in a way that makes people sit up and take notice."
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O'Reilly Radar: An "inventory the veritable cornucopia of web-based applications on which I run my day."
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Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too?
Plasticbag.org: "A question I think we should be asking is how could we build services that let you decide precisely which groups of people should be able to see, link to, 'trackback' or comment on the work you do in a decentralised, disaggregated way?"
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Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...
"They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you."
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The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset.
How to Create Frames Layout with CSS
"By far the most sought after use of CSS is to emulate the dated html 'frame' layout, whereby the header, navigation and footer stay on screen at all times and the content area will scroll. "
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Increase the Challenge, Increase the Attention
Eide: "Older adults and younger school age children had problems with focus at low levels of 'visual challenge' . . . When the task was made more challenging (centrally distracting letters), both the older and younger subjects performed better."
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Set MovableType upload directory
A Greasemonkey user script that automatically sets the upload directory to "uploaded/date/"
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Viral Marketing - Is It Infectious?
"Four main categories of success criteria are identified: Objective, subjective, intersubjective and meme-centred. The better a viral campaign fulfils these criteria, the greater the chance of success it has through the survival stages."
Why can't indie bands stay on the soundtrack -- and off the stage -- of trendy TV teen shows?
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A Graffiti Legend Is Back on the Street
In the New York graffiti world of the early 1990's, he was everywhere and larger than life, sometimes literally: the name Revs, usually accompanied by that of his partner in crime, Cost, could be found scrawled, wheat-pasted or painted in gargantuan white
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The article that changed the world
Overinflated claims in book titles reveal a lack of self-confidence among publishers
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Blogs Will Change Your Business
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
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FT.com: "If we don’t look at the evidence and we ignore the role of the public domain in fostering innovation, how can we possibly hope to make good policy?"
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Paul Graham: "You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week."
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MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing emailâ€â€with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
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ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more.
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Manhattan User's Guide: "But Wal-Mart is a different matter. It is the antithesis of everything for which New York has stood and for which it should stand."
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Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
"The idea was simple: I wanted to list on a one single page the most useful web-sites, which make the life of web designers easier."
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Noise Between Stations: "So how do we become more creative? There’s no easy fix. To be creative, new neural pathways need to be constructed by, well, being creative. Kraft suggests four steps for doing that"
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Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""
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From fleur de sel to kosher, which salt is best?
"This project seeks to provide a set of scripts for converting tracking information for packages from various carriers to the RSS format."
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Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed!
Tic and Tac, Street Performers
Gothamist: "On any sunny afternoon in Washington Square Park, you'll find a large crowd of awed passersby encircling the recessed fountain that serves as a stage for the highflying antics of Tic and Tac, a break-dancing, acrobatic, comedy duo."
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Firefox Market Share Gains Continue
ClickZ: "Firefox more than doubled its reach, hitting the number two spot with a 10.28 percent share of the market, up 6.05 percent from January's measurement of 4.23 percent."
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half-RSSed, adj., haff-AHRST: A blog whose RSS feed offers only headlines and not the body text you really want to read.
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Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
A step-by-step guide on how to use Bloglines
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Macworld: "But important e-mail messages are often hard to define and organize with automatic, rules-based management. They require filters and rules that reside only in your brain."
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Allows you to modify the page your looking at on your own machine. Delete advertisements, change text color, etc.
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Backpack Preview #3: Web 1.0 calling Web 2.0 - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Signal vs. Noise: "Backpack takes a fresh look at email. However, instead of just sending email to someone else’s email address, Backpack will receive an email and turn it into something useful on the web."
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The Paper Napkin email rejection service
Give them anyname@papernapkin.net (or paamail.com, to be less suspicious), tell them it's your address, and when they write you, they'll automatically get a response telling them how badly they've been rejected.
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"The difference between blogging and journalism lies in how mistakes are dealt with."
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A look at Firefox's about:config settings
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zengestrom.com: "The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object."
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Far Apart but Intensely Connected
Wired: ""This idea that you could connect and be able to share your totally trivial, day-to-day events with your partner in almost real time -- if not real time -- is probably one of the biggest impacts technology is going to have on long-distance relatio
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Dan Gillmor: "The emerging web is one in which the machines talk as much to each other as humans talk to machines or other humans. As the net is the rough equivalent of a computer operating system, we’re learning how to program the web itself."
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Quicksilver Changes Everything
Another Quicksilver tutorial
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Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP).
An OS X keyboard shortcut reference
macosxhints: "Quick reference guide (PDF, OpenOffice doc) for those magic keystrokes you find out about in bits and pieces here and there."
I Like Big Buttons and I Cannot Lie
Garrett Dimon: "The whole idea behind the site was to move the visual design out of the way and focus on the content and comments. One column. Very few graphics. Big and simple headlines."
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The Deadest Party That Ever Was
Defamer: "A reader reports from what truly may have been the Most Celebrity-Starved Hollywood Party of All Time, last night’s launch party for Inside TV magazine at White Lotus"
How to "uninstall" programs in Mac OS X
Al Fasoldt's: "In nearly every case, you only have to do one thing when you no longer want to run a program on your Mac OS X computer: You drag it to the trash."
Lots of little pieces of software to make OS X work better
LJ geographical usage data as a percent of population
Almost 5% of Massachusetts and 4% of Michigan have LiveJournal accounts.
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GreaseMonkey - "Amazon Free Music" helper
Sverstimulate: "It is a pain to click through to download, so I decided to write a quick userscript for GreaseMonkey which skips the step of having to click to another page, and lets you get the music."
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Referring to me as "the Yellow Rose of Texas." [I am not blond, Texan, or jaundiced, and that coat was not yellow, it was camel. Maybe you could refer to me as "the Deathly White Opium Poppy of Northern California." That ha
adaptive path: "The Internet has always been a medium for democratization, and by reconnecting with our idealism we’re once again uncovering its poetry, nobility, and transformative power."
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Learning to eat everything.
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Sony opens game goods marketplace
Game giant Sony is opening its own market where players will be able to buy and sell virtual goods.
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Market populism in the folksonomies debate
Atomiq: "One can be enthusiastic about tags and folksonomies (I am) and still confront the serious problems that face them as a stand-alone tool for organizing information. Turning a blind eye to those problems is what turns strange zeitgeist into irratio
alex wright : "This fundamantal question - are tags useful? - seems to get lost in the ideological shuffle."
Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers
You can't afford to miss this wave -- and even more important, you can't afford to do it wrong
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Stonyfield Farm's Blog Culture
The yogurt-maker's CEO Gary Hirshberg and Chief Blogger Christine Halverson on how the Web journals connect them to customers
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New York's Real Estate Know-It-All
Lockhart Steele's Curbed.com blog is a magnet for anyone looking for the lowdown on the industry's Gotham gossip
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A great way to find housing listed on Craig's List using the Google Maps interface
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Feedster and AdBrite Partner to Offer Robust Ad Marketplace for Blogs
Feedster and AdBrite, “The Internet’s Ad Marketplace�, today announced that they are partnering to offer blog publishers the most complete suite of tools for buying and selling ads.
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Scott Rafer: "Tagging other people's content has value, and tagging one's own content leads directly to spam."
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Check the rankings of any webpage in Google
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Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the Kitchen
NYTimes: "But a lot of significant innovations do not come from people trying to figure out what customers may want. They come from the users themselves, who know exactly what they want but cannot get it in existing products."
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The executives at Epic won't release her new album, but they may be right not to.
We Want Your Retro, Hard-to-Find Shoe Styles, The Fanatics Said. So the Companies Ran With It.
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Some easy to remember ways to figure out just how much food your eating/should be eating.
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GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices.
Damn . . . these are some badass pizza cutters.
US accused of trying to block abortion pills
Guardian: "The US government is trying to block the World Health Organisation from endorsing two abortion pills which could save the lives of some of the 68,000 women who die from unsafe practices in poor countries every year."
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Contagious Media Showdown : Workshops
An Eyebeam conference all about viral media
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QuickSilver - A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes
A QuickSilver tutorial
Daily Kos Swings for the Fences
Wired: "He wants to build an empire, and an unlikely one -- a network of interactive community blogs devoted to a world only slightly less partisan than politics: sports."
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Idle Words: "But after a while, you begin to notice that all the essays are an elaborate set of mirrors set up to reflect different facets of the author, in a big distributed act of participatory narcissism."
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A School of Visual Arts Grad Remakes the Pill Bottle
How the pill bottle was remadeâ€â€sensibly and beautifully.
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Wired News: "A harmless bacterium that binds to the HIV virus has been discovered by medical researchers. The find may lead to a cheap way to control infection."
IE can't handle position: fixed. What follows is the CSS and HTML necessary to emulate the behaviour of fixed positioning in Internet Explorer.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Excessive politeness only makes sense as cover for something truly sinister. But what?"
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The Next Thing Said After Select Famous Phrases.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Mission Control to Neil Armstrong: "Wow, poetic. But between you and us, you're pissing yourself right now, aren't you?""
Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope
The Onion: ""Where are all the marble statues, sterling-silver chalices, and gem-encrusted scepters?" the visibly disappointed pope asked."
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With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your selects beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
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Lots o' Andrew Bird Live Shows
Largehearted Boy Daily Downloads that includes eight Andrew Bird shows
Lots of little tips to make your life a little easier
The Mask Email Image Generator will create a JPG image of your email address.
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"Sidenote is a MacOS X application that tries to catch the “Stickies� spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily
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Mix snail porridge, sardine sorbet and you have a Fat Duck
Guardian article with a list of the top 50 restaurants in the world
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The New York Times Company Reports NYTimes.com's Record-Breaking Traffic for March
"NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews."
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NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file
Boing Boing: "Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a song from the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a Garageband 2.0 file. "
You are what's on your playlist
Experts say digital music library reflects listener's personality
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Screw the R.A. (Wait, You Already Did)
Elisabeth Eckleman just left home, and has a lot of difficult decisions ahead of her. Sarah Hepola follows Elisabeth’s life and lets you make the tough choices for both of them. In this installment, Elisabeth tells Kat about what’s been going on wit
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Andrew Bird's Current Favorites
Salon.com: "Audiofile reader favorite Andrew Bird's list of current listening favorites"
Michael Gartenberg: "In an age of hundreds of gigs of info, users don't need to spend hours and hours organizing their data to be able to find it again. "
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Firefox search plugin for Audioscrobbler
Now you can search Audioscrobbler from the search bar in Firefox
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Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail
Greasemonkey script that adds persisten search folders to Gmail
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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: "information displays should be documentary, comparative, causal and explanatory, quantified, multivariate, exploratory, skeptical."
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The BlackBerry generation, writes TRALEE PEARCE, is finding salvation in pen and paper
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Marketing Lessons Learned from FREAKONOMICS
Brand Autopsy: Lesson 3: "The abundance and availability of information today makes storytelling more important than ever for marketers. Storytelling, not information, is the new leverage-able asset in business."
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New Republic: "Practice may not make perfect, but it enables an experienced person to arrive at conclusions more quickly than a neophyte. The expert's snap judgment is the result of a deliberative process made unconscious through habituation."
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Tagvertising = Blogging 2.0... Already?
Blog guru Steve Rubel gives us the skinny on folksonomies and tagvertising: the new ways to reach loyal audiences.
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Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait?
NYTimes: "Michael Cherry, a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a consulting firm based in Kirkland, Wash., observes that many PC users now treat their computers like TV sets. "Unless the TV doesn't turn on," he says, "they won't replace them.""
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New rivals take aim at the champ
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Wired: "The opposite of surveillance -- French for watching from above -- sousveillance refers to watching from below, essentially from beneath the eye in the sky. It's the equivalent of keeping an eye on the eye."
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Spectrum: "Internet use glocalized social relationships," he continues. "That is, it affords local activities using a global communication technology. Email is just an everyday part of everyday life."
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25 Things Women Wish Men Would Figure Out
All the stuff we expect you to know without our telling you.
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McSweeney's: "______-______-bo-______-bananna-fanna-fo-______-fee-fy-fo-______. ______!"
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What I Learned Listening to AM Radio.
McSweeney's: "All callers to sports talk radio shows are barely literate Italian kids named Joe."
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Things That Did Not Stay in Vegas.
McSweeney's: "Moral compass, slightly recalibrated"
Carlo's Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza
A nice list of bootleg RSS feeds
Plurn is an online music community where you can build and share playlists and musical tastes quickly and easily with a very wide audience.
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How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS - WebReference.com
With this article I hope to show you how to produce a professional quality photograph gallery using nothing more than an unordered list of photographs and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
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Analyst sees quantitative proof of the iPod halo effect
Following yesterday's Apple earnings announcements, Merrill Lynch said it sees "quantitative proof" that the popularity of the iPod is transitioning into new Mac sales, as Mac revenue increased by 29% year over year during the company's March quarter.
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Exams ban for mobile phone users
Almost 300 school and college students were disqualified from exams in England last summer for malpractice involving mobile phones, figures show.
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Guardian: "Girls are the biggest downloaders of ringtones and wallpapers, so they are obviously in tune with downloading content ... just the game subject matter seems not to appeal."
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MP3 blogs are growing in popularity, attracting thousands of users daily. But while bloggers see their relationship with the industry as one of cooperation, it is a legally grey area. Chris Alden reports
Running your company on web apps
evhead: "One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on."
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The File Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Lifeblog
O'Reilly: "Convergence of digital media devices has been a rocky and troublesome path over the last decade or so, but signs are that everything is converging into a phone-shaped object that is permanently and wirelessly networked."
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It now looks like a city street.
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How the Moleskine Rocked My World
One man's relationship with his moleskine
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William Safire goes off on "branding"
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A GreaseMonkey script that allows you to automatically get a day pass when reading premium
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MusicPublisher is an utility to share your iPod, or any similar music device, and make them directly available to iTunes.
Lecture highlights need to share
BBC: "I believe that collaboration is absolutely essential for success because it brings both global awareness and the ability to gather together diverse capabilities."
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The best way to organize your room
A five step process to cleaning up a messy room
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"Do not make any serious decisions because you are angry, hurt, depressed, desperate, or frightened."
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Bubblegeneration: "The feedreader, I suspect, is becoming the browser 2.0. This is hugely important, but little discussed. Because someone else has control of your browsing,the value equation gets flipped on it's head. Now, the point of this is not that t
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Lifestyle tips: How to simplify your life in 2005
Sound Money Tips: "Here are five tips about how to simplify your life in 2005. Ultimately they're about peace of mind, not just finance."
Yahoo's MAILER-DAEMON Automated Reply for Failed E-mail Delivery Is Getting a Little Too Intimate.
McSweeney's: "I still remember your first message, because you haven't deleted it. It was so beautiful in its simplicityâ€â€the subject line "test" that you sent to yourself. You had me at "@.""
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Cookie Monster Advocating Eating Healthy
AP: " "Even Cookie Monster is learning to control his cookie cravings," Frist told me by e-mail. "His sage advice opened our eyes to the simple joys of a tasty cookie and now reminds us that moderation is the key to healthy living.""
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Photography from a Japanese supermarket
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Andrew Bird: Pitchfork Artist List
Andrew Bird: "These are 10 songs or albums that transcend style and still get through to me"
What do we know about tipping?
10 interesting facts about tipping
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Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
On his iPod: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
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What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists - here we bring you some of the most provocative responses
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Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel
John Paul II on the internet from the 36th World Communications Day
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LATimes profile of Boing Boing/Wired's Xeni Jardin
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Don't like it as much as Sea Change. "Girl" is amazing. It very much seems like Beck trying to be Beck . . . if you know what I mean.
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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Apple bloggers get press support
Eight US newspapers and the Associated Press agency have thrown their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple.
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Who's in charge--you or your brain?
Creating Passionate Users: "Everyone should know how their brain really works, because it--not you--is running the show!"
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Where should I go to grad school?
An Ask Metafliter question about going to grad school. Specifically asking about NYU's Media Ecology program.
Chicago Sun-Times Sports Section
I need a Jay Mariotti RSS feed
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A Few Notes from the Grokster Argument
A great summary of the MGM v. Grokster case
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The story of how Yahoo! pulled itself back into the search game
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Mobile Benchmark Data Reveals Widespread Use of Mobile Media, Including Games, Messaging and Ringtones
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Toasters, clock-radios, vacuum cleaners - everyday devices, found in everyday homes. So how do manufacturers make us buy more of what we already have? By getting product designers to think harder about how we use things, and designing products for couples
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Washington Post: "Old advertising was predatory, militaristic almost: There were "campaigns" to "target" passive consumers; the objective was to score "hits" on them. Googletising is an altogether gentler art. Ads aren't directed at consumers. They are di
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Wired: ITC tests your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day."
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Two rules for trend spotting
Jaffe Juice: Tiger did it a.k.a. the next Nike Commercial
The way the ball hung over the cup with the Nike swoosh peaking out begs for a commercial
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Do you have what it takes to corral enough traffic to win the cash prizes? Can you make the next Dancing Baby, All Your Base, or Star Wars Kid and ride into the sunset with the bounty?
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Some key findings from the latest JupiterResearch online teen survey
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10 life lessons from a designer
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Gender Differences in Spoken and Written Communication
"One study that she references found that reviewers could guess the gender of the author of a paper with 75% accuracy."
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A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
A man who tried to pay with $2 bills at Best Buy as a form of pseudo-protest ended up arrested
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Life's top 10 greatest inventions
This list includes such popular inventions as the "brain" and "symbiosis"
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Are there any better stories than the ones about the drunken charades of a bad college roommate?
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A BitTorrent search engine
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Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet
Using e-mail rather than SMS as the messaging medium for mobile phones has made mobile Internet services in Japan more successful than in the West, says an industry expert -- a claim supported by recently discovered mathematical properties of networks.
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Terry Heaton: "Here's where the paradox comes in. One doesn't find influence in the URL world without providing a service to others, for it is the linkers (the bottom) who provide the influence, not those receiving the links."
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Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann: "Think of your life in terms of things that you can choose to do or not -- your job isn't about filing."
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
McSweeney's: "Hey there, my little ... my little cowgirl. I'm Jack Bartlett. Want credit for a quotation? I don'