LINKS FROM May 2005
Student's Start-Up Draws Attention and $13 Million
"Five years after the Internet bubble burst, a new generation of Web start-ups is quietly attracting investment capital. Thefacebook.com typifies the breed: a company that is built on substance rather than high expectations."
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New Scientist: "There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells."
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A replacement for MTCommentFields
Trying to find a workaround for MTCommentFields
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Installing Movable Type on Tiger
Want to install Movable Type on Mac OS X Tiger? Justin Williams shows you how to get up and running with Movable Type using SQLite, the lightweight database engine included with every copy of Tiger.
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"Taboo is a simple Safari hack which provides a warning before quitting or closing a browser window containing multiple tabs."
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All about Salon's site pass
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Reggaeton, grime, baile funk, and the globalization of hip-hop.
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Once blogs 'change everything,' fascination with them will chill
USA Today: "More likely, a few years from now, after the blog bubble has normalized, we'll look back and say that this technology made a difference and that our total fascination with it seems quaint."
"Stop thinking of a web application as a collection of pages."
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"Irving Plaza: Seeing Malkmus? Recognize that no matter when you get there, you'll always be watching from under that stupid overhang."
Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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Wired: "By focusing the book on setting up that straw man and knocking it down, Johnson largely misses the point of the more valid critique of today's pop culture."
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Management's role in passionate users
Companies need to create policies that are inherently trusting of employees, not the other way around.
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Some good Movable Type plugins
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It's All in How the Dog Is Served
Everything you ever needed or wanted to know about hot dogs in the Tri-State Area.
10 Worst Album Covers of All Time
They are bad.
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KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.
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Graffiti artists pour scorn on Saatchi's street art campaign
Times Online: "As part of a £20 million campaign for a new Brazilian spirit it is spray-painting graffiti images on walls and buildings in the East End of London as a way to reach young consumers immune to conventional advertising."
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Five fake urban myths I’d like you to earnestly share with your friends and colleagues
5ives: "Studies show there’s more feces on your doorknob than there is in an actual pile of feces"
NYTimes: "It turns out that people are losing more and more things because they are lugging so many additional gadgets and communications devices - and often misplacing them in airplanes and airports, hotel rooms, restaurants, cabs and rented cars."
43 Folders: "4. Per cringe item, think honestly about why you’re freaked out about it. Seriously. What’s the hang-up?"
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The Cash Machine Is Blue: why Wilco is Worldchanging
WorldChanging: "Good business comes from a great personal ethic, and I think Wilco exemplify the true artist's philosophy in this crazy, confusing world."
"This tutorial will outline variations of a PHP script you can use to generate random entries"
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Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."
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Manhattan's Chinatown Pressured to Sell Out
Washington Post: "It's been a battle with gentrification and cheap Chinese textiles -- the factory owners cannot plan even a few months out."
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Home, Alone
Elisabeth goes home to see her momâ€â€without Bradâ€â€and then meets an old friend with an attractive offer.
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Tempting but Ill-Advised Email Auto-Responses
The Morning News: "New ways to let technology filter out the noise of life."
An Open Letter to the Couple Who Found My Panties in Their Yard Last Summer.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Sorry about that. I was drunk, not that I think that makes it OK or anything. I did think I would grab the panties as I left, rather than leave them under the tree like that."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "If you were a warp tube, I'd be in you all day."
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Things That Are Just Barely Thicker Than Peter Gallagher's Eyebrows.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Molasses"
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iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 Battery Exchange Program
Apple is voluntarily recalling certain lithium ion rechargeable batteries that were sold worldwide from October 2004 through May 2005 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4.
NYTimes: "On the spur-of-the-moment, Simon Curtis, inset, grabbed a self-portrait of Michelle Cortez from 31 Grand, a Williamsburg gallery, during an art opening."
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Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes, Claude Steele finds, hampers the ability to succeed. The idea is now central in affirmative action and job discrimination fights.
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LifeOrganizers.com is a rich resource of office and home organizing articles, tips, and fresh, easy ideas on how to get rid of clutter from every part of your life.
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What Today's Students Can Learn from IDEO
Eide Neurlearning: "What IDEO may help specifically with is a more systematic approach to teaching and encouraging problem solving."
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong
Five easy tips for being a better grillmaster.
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Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)
Ginormous and woot made the list.
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GarrettDimon.com: "Here's a list of programs I can't live without."
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MacStumbler is a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points.
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Twelve Ways to Think Differently
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
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A series of pictures from an abandoned themed park.
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90% Crud: "If I can find out something as arbitrary as Ron Howard's birth date from somewhere as disconnected as a movie theater seat, our entire relationship to information is changing."
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Gates: Tech must tackle information overload
Mercury News: "Nobody's paid to do search or just find information. At the end of the day you're paid for designing a new product, having a satisfied customer and doing that with the minimum amount of time, the minimum amount of people.''
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Getting Things Done on a Macintosh
Ask MetaFilter: How do you stay organized on your Mac?
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2005 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
The Morning News: "These are the sites we enjoyed the most in the past year, sites that impressed us with their stories, or how quickly they became indispensable in our daily surfing."
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The bar mitzvah's history holds a clue to saving the modern-day ritual.
An experiment to track del.icio.us' most popular posts, to ascertain who are the most frequent deliciously popular people.
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Personalize your Google hompage with news, Gmail, etc. Where's the RSS?
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forget-me-not panties : with sensatech technology
Panties with built-in GPS technology keep track of your girlfriend for you
mambofrog: "All of these tools work slightly differently, but are based on the same principle: fiddle around until you find an attractive group of colors." Notes on 11 of them.
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Find a color scheme for your site.
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Reverse-engineering passion: part 1
Evangelize, Connect, Learn, Improve, Show Off, Spend Time and Spend Money
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Getting Real: Copywriting is interface design
Go copywriters!
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Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory, Study Finds
"The results show how some types of memory might be better when people forget what they know and instead approach a subject with a child-like sense of naïveté."
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LukeW: "Now as a flurry of interest in AJAX sweeps the Web, it’s worthwhile to consider the design implications of this technology lest we end up with “Skip AJAX� in the future."
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Flash Mobs: an experiment in social networking
Who'd have thought a single email designed to mock New York scenesters would have turned into an international craze?
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In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.
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Bob Dylan was never the same after it; neither was his audience. And it made a young Frank Zappa want to quit the music business. Greil Marcus on how Like a Rolling Stone rocked the world
Guardian: "It's an ageless, unisex, all-weather basic. With a hoodie, there's no need to carry a jacket or an umbrella. It's all there, on your back."
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SimpleBits explanation for highlighting a specific author in MT comments
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"A switch-case statement provides a convenient way to compare one value against a list of other values, and perform whatever is within the matched block."
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There's real money to be made selling unreal stuff, such as digital weapons and land, to online gamers. It's a controversial market.
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Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Clay Shirky's piece on tagging and the future of categorization
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Messaging spreads office gossip
One in five people in the UK are using instant messaging at work but the majority of firms are failing to regulate its use.
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Firefox Users Monkey With the Web
Wired: "Greasemonkey enables people to remix the web," Willison said. "You are giving control of people's browsers back to users.""
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On the Beach With Dave Chappelle
In South Africa, TIME's Simon Robinson talks with the comic about his sudden disappearance from Chappelle's Show
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Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver
How to use Quicksilver to add Spotlight comments
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"MovableType has conditional tags that are true when entries and pings are enabled. The following tags allow you to test whether comments or pings exist."
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5ives: "1. Have Ryan start punching preppies at parties again"
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"Star Wars" Spawned a Galaxy of Technologies
George Lucas is responsible for the tecchnology behind Pixar and Avid
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NYTimes: "DON'T ask Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media and its growing list of popular Web logs, about his empire. "People come up to me as if it's witty and say, 'How is the empire going?' " Mr. Denton said, "which is pretty pathetic.""
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20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About
MacDevCenter: "My goal in this article is to explore 20 new Tiger tips that you probably haven't heard about before. Even if you've had the opportunity to play with Tiger yourself, I bet you'll discover some new tricks herein."
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Telegraph: "The medicinal properties of antioxidants in red wine are well known, but delegates at a biochemistry conference were told that whisky offered "even greater health benefits"."
Puts your ToDo lists in your menu bar and synchronizes with iCal.
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The Significance of "Social Software"
Danah Boyd: "Social software represents a new generation of social technology development - a generation that is dependent on moving beyond the laboratory and into mass culture."
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Getting Things Done With “Delete�
"I’ve found that one of the easiest ways to eliminate a problem or to make something better is to take something away."
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The guy who wears too much protective gear and the other pickup basketball players in the NBA playoffs.
identity crisis: the curse/joy of being interdisciplinary and the future of academia
apophenia: "It will not be possible to label the next round of revolutionary scholars and they won't be trapped up in conversations and defining disciplines or securing methods. "
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Look, Nobody Cares That You're a DJ
"You know who you are. Standing behind that deck of turntables, holding one headphone to your ear, being pretentious and aloof as you play with knobs and shuffle through records."
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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Welcome to the real David Gensler and what he really thinks about everything. Co-Founder and President of the KDU and considered by many to be the top youth culture strategist in the world,
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Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script
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A Washington Post article with some good recommendations for making RSS easier to use.
SmartyPants is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart� typographic punctuation HTML entities.
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Accessibility, usability, the W3C . . . are graphic designers finally coming to terms with the Web?
Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine
Wired: An exceprt on the importance of design from iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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A collection of MP3 blogs organized by genre and alphabetically
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Robert McNamara is worried . . . Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.
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Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
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What the “long tail� means for the economics of e-commerce
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The knowledgebase is organized into different categories, please select a category that you are interested in. Additionally, you can also search the entire knowledgebase by entering keywords below.
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All the Backpacks that weren't
Signal vs. Noise: "Iterative design is a zeroing-in process, and you can start to see this as the changes in each iteration become increasingly subtle."
A VC: On Google, "But I don't understand how all of these new web services have anything to do with their core business of targeting advertising via search and contextual advertising."
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"Enjoy a classic game of Minesweeper instantly available in your Dashboard. The interface emulates the timeless Windows minesweeper game."
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Where Do Mob Nicknames Come From?
The origins of "Tony the Ant," "Big Tuna," and "Joey the Clown."
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The Guardian explores New York City with the help of blogs
British men are almost twice as likely to use their mobile phones for talking compared with women, who prefer to text, according to research on Wednesday.
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Mitch Hedberg was supposed to be the next Seinfeld
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An Open Letter to the State of New York.
McSweeney's: "Feel free to use my body as it lies dormant as a site for school field trips. Make sure there is what I will call a "poker stick" next to the bed. Television has told me that kids enjoy taking a stick and poking bodies that don't move, so I
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Three Items at the Supermarket I See in a New Way, Now That I've Read Some Books on Literary Theory.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Post Raisin Bran"
Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
"A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk."
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A nice long list of menubar items for download
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How to Post Daily Del.icio.us Links to Your Movable Type Blog
Common Craft: "What I’m describing today is a way to bookmark a web site using Del.icio.us and have that bookmark (along with others from that day) automatically show up on your Movable Type blog, once every 24 hours."
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Date Unknown
In this installment, Elisabeth questions how she feels about Chad, but then the unthinkable happens.
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Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood
"New team members clearly added creative spark and critical links to the experience of the entire industry."
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The assault on software giant Microsoft
The next two years will be crucial for software giant Microsoft. Under attack on numerous fronts, it could falter - or fight back to become even more dominant.
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What Every Good Marketer Knows
Seth Godin: "But, assuming that you’re like me and the rest of the people I know (which means you haven't figured out everything there is to know about marketing yet), here’s a list to get you started."
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Kottke sets up the front page with some Ajax. Entry includes some code and interesting links.
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Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC
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The Disney Muppets: why that just isn't funny
Disney bought the Muppets for $30m last year and is now relaunching them. Will the corporation get the show’s anarchic humour?
BlogTyme: "If a “blog� doesn’t have comments then it’s not a blog, it’s a web site. Interaction not only with the author(s) but amongst each other is what makes it different from a web site, in my opinion."
Widget Manager is a Preference Pane for OSX 10.4 that allows you to inspect, remove, and disable Dashboard Widgets.
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Two rock bands that want to be heard. (The Mountain Goats and The Hold Steady)
Can any self-respecting thirtysomething music fan turn their back on a record collection dominated by hip bands such as Muse and Interpol and revert to their first love - the Moody Blues, ELO, Queen, Toto and, yes, even Phil Collins?
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Thoughts on Dashboard and ambient information
heyblog: "What’s the appeal of switching to Dashboard to run an Amazon search when you could do it with about as much effort by just going to Amazon.com?"
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Wired: "Miller stopped by the Wired News office for a chat about his book, his new album and his thoughts on sampling culture and copyright."
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The goal of Pixelpusher.biz is sharing web design ideas, promoting web standards and the use of css magic.
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Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!
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One law rules dedicated followers of fashion
New Scientist: "The magnetic model predicts that when people have a strong tendency to imitate others, shifts in behaviour will be faster, and there may even be discontinuous jumps, with many people adopting cellphones virtually overnight."
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They're known as firework careers: bands whose popularity rockets, flares - and dies all too quickly. Dorian Lynskey reports on a worrying trend and looks at what a new band can expect
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Hog Bay Notebook lets you record and organize your ideas in a convenient way. Bring order to your Mac with this simple and powerful tool.
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Free RSS to JavaScript Converter
Use this generator to display and format RSS feeds on your website -- no linkback required!
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"FeedTagger allows anyone to search, browse or subscribe to regularly updated information, such as newspapers, blogs and websites."
MacDevCenter: "This article will focus on the basics of widget development and then go over the steps required to develop a widget that displays *nix man pages."
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"Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight."
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Wouldn't it be neat if Dashboard popped up by itself after a certain amount of system idle time? It will be pretty neat indeed, right after you download and install Dasher, a preference pane that gets your Dash' on automatically.
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Macworld: "Tiger’s been out less than a week, and there are already a number of interesting utilities to customize itâ€â€in subtle waysâ€â€to your preferences; here’s a rundown of some of the first."
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Tricks of the Trade: "When all that is left are the middle seats on the plane, ask the person at the counter if you can be seated between two people with the same last name."
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Seth Godin: "Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, and at the same time that their number is growing, so are their skills."
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How to make a horizontal list using css. The simplest explanation I've found.
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You can do anything - but not everything.
David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.
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A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design.
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PAGES: Adding content to a Backpack page via email
Backpack makes it easy to add content to any Backpack page via email (watch as video to see it in action).
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A design consultancy based in San Francisco, California, Stopdesign specializes in a simple, beautiful aesthetic, balance of form and function, and highly flexible design.
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YourTotalSite: "Until the web came along, a designer never had to worry about variables such as screen resolution, limited color palettes, or the availability of their favorite font on every machine."
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"What does this mean for Web designers? It means designers have to start thinking about how to brand content as well as sites. It means designers have to get comfortable with Web services and think beyond presentation of place to APIs and syndication."
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"A few Finder or Script Menu plug-ins for Automator." Including "Send Linked MP3s from Firefox to iTunes."
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Coming soon to a theater near you: actual start times for feature presentations.
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"A weblog: blogs run by twenty-something Americans with at least an unhealthy interest in computers." Ouch!
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I am an information glutton, and so are you.
"Information is the most potent weapon in the fight against oppression and inequality wherever it occurs."
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Operating Systems and Recent History
Dan Gillmor: "With Tiger, Apple is plainly in the lead today. The built-in search function is getting rave reviews, among other performance boosts that keep the Mac ahead on ease of use."
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'Tagging' helps unclutter data
Includes my photo. Cool.
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What is information architecture?
This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
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A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life
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Online advertising is becoming a serious rival to the traditional sort. Google’s new advertising service could make the internet an even more valuable marketing medium
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'Daily Show' Personality Gets His Own Platform
NY Times"It will be called "The Colbert Report" - though, if Mr. Colbert has his way, the announcer will pronounce it with a faux-French accent: The co-BEAR ra-PORE."
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Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger that allows Dashboard widgets to live directly on your Desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar.
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Users don't care if you are the best.
Creating Passionate Users: "Quit telling us how great you are, and start telling us how you plan to deliver something that helps the user become greater."
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Enter a subject and this page tells you what that is ... umm... I guess you'd better just try it out :) Note that the results are not randomly generated in any way! Take your time to browse the results and you might be surprised how accurate this thing ca
An AppleScript which allows arbitrary tagging of messages in Mail.app.
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Tim Bray Asks The Right Question (And I Try To Answer It)
“Are there any questions you want to ask, or jobs you want to do, where tags are part of the solution, and clearly work better than old-fashioned search?�
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Shortucuts and power features
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SPIEGEL Interview with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg
Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds."
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Create notes that appear on the side of a page.
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Bending, Bolting and Evading the Police
New York Times profile of street artist Leon Reid
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Korean Kids' Greatest Fear: No Cell Phone
"What would be the harshest punishment to junior and senior high school students today? Confiscation of their cell phones, rendering them helpless to send SMs to their friends or post their digital school pictures on the Internet."
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Wired: "There will always be a market for young reporters who know how to gather facts and write them up in a clear, convincing manner."
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How "search" is redefining the Web  and our lives
Seattle Times: "When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack."
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Designer and budding mogul Marc Ecko says the business of culture is regional
Marc Ecko: "Convergence. Blurring lines. Brands existing dynamically in real time in multiple places. And being more purposeful and meaningful than just being a commodity."
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The great American beer crisis.
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Ouch! That smarts! Treat your minor cuts, scrapes and scratches with the incredible healing power of a designer bandage from Accoutrements. And if a fancy bandage isn't enough to dry up your tears, how about a FREE TOY!
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This is no PowerPoint presentation
SF Chronicle: "Executives and analysts who have tried it say MindManager offers a more dynamic way to make presentations than PowerPoint, in which a user lays out ideas in a series of slides."
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Javascript functions that allow you to do all sorts of cool stuff to elements
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Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.
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Group Encounter on the High Line
A story: "My concern was practical. We might be noticed here, six artsy types with daypacks. Any cop with any sense would guess what we were doing so close to the beginning of the High Line."
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A fantastic resource for all those random Vin Diesel fact fanatics
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How The Net Is Remaking The Mall
To lure Web-savvy shoppers, retailers are turning to "lifestyle centers"
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Greg Brenneman, the endearing CEO
Excerpts from an interview with Burger King’s CEO, Greg Brenneman.
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Can Blogging Ever Become Big Business?
Calcanis: "John did an amazing job over the past six months taking BoingBoing from ad/revenue-free to ad/revenue-filled without upsetting the user base or the four bloggers. I understand it makes $40k a month and is growing"
All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.
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Helps you clean up your del.icio.us tags
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There are two buttons my screenless iPod shuffle really needs: Next Track and More Like This.
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Magazines Find Ways to Include Unconventional Elements in Deals With Marketers
"So just as the TV networks seek to entice marketers with sales packages that go beyond running 30-second spots. . . publishers are also developing elaborate offers that involve more than just running ad pages or advertorial sections in their magazines."
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French mobilize to save cheeses under threat of extinction
"In 30 years, more than 50 have been struck off the menus as the proportion of industrial cheeses continues to grow while cheeses made from unpasteurised milk only represent seven percent of our consumption," said Veronique Richez-Lerouge.
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Concern over rise of 'happy slapping' craze
Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads
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After five years and 22 million visitors, Tate Modern has changed the way we think about contemporary art
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Washing machine fingers lazy male
BBC News: "It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row."
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You're It: 'Tags' ease sifting of digital data
"Noah Brier regularly looks for bookmarks tagged "lifehacks"  for everyday productivity tips  and recently ran across an article on better ways to shave."
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