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“Just to make everyone happy,� said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.�
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"Why are we doing this? Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."
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Scott Rafer: "A Prediction: The second DotCom Bubble will inflate and burst no later than mid-2009."
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Everything you need to have in a Web 2.0 app
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Gary Stein: "I think Root is an interesting experiment: will players (especially consumers) be interested in participating in this sort of market place? We'll have to wait and see."
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grey goose's good tastin branded entertainment
"Iconoclasts, Grey Goose vodka's venture into branded entertainment, debuted last week on the Sundance Channel."
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How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
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How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed
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A great quote from Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering by M.J. French
"Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"
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Attention, Buying a Car, and Control
Joshua Porter puts AttentionTrust in terms of buying a car.
Media Futures: From Theory to Practice
Seth Goldstein explains how AttentionTrust and /ROOT came to be.
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A new method for marketing? "intrigue (among a small group) - co-option - investigation - consideration/opinion - publicity"
Adaptive Path: "Every large corporation has a marketing strategy that outlines what it wants to say to customers, but many of them still aren’t using their homepages effectively to highlight that message."
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Hacking the Human OS: How we learn
" According to Richard E. Mayer, before any message or new idea will be fully understood, a person must go through three learning phases: I like to call them select, construct, and connect."
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Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
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A plant that grows with a word on it. If you buy 5,000 you can get any word you want.
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollarsâ€â€it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
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Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.
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The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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A ruby RSS scraper to install on your server.
The Case For Intelligent Design: Spaghetti as the Creator
Bobby Henderson is getting an $80,000 advance to write The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid
An interview about the $100 laptop program.
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"Welcome to a new "Wild West", where formats, delivery and opportunity are now only limited by the creativity and imagination of the content distribution channel and the advertiser."
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Da Bears blog is number 3. Hell yeah.
Google Base goes live - it's more than just about classifieds
Forrester analyst Charlene Li discusses her thoughts on Google Base.
Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.
McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."
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With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
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"Unnecessary details can put the brakes on innovative thinking. Better to focus on big picture up front. The details will follow naturally."
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"For those of you who have expressed confusion over the many forms of diet and sugar free cokes now available to you, I offer an explanation, because I was confused so I did the research"
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From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
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Simon Williams: The 10 New Rules of Branding
"The marketing community needs a new set of branding rules, says Simon Williams, chairman of New York-based branding consultancy Sterling Group. And he’s more than happy to supply them."
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Amazon, excess and the future of navigation...
"A massive explosion in trustworthy ways of exploring through your data is how you turn a business from a repository or a directory into a web native, 21st century operation."
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On the Value of Design: A look at Stationery Package Creative Fees
"It is up to the creative community to stand their ground and educate and/or reinforce the value that design and creativity brings to the table."
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Predictions for next year from Renegade president Drew Neisser.
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The Art of Business: Marketing Smart
"Nine top ways to make your marketing fast and effective."
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Six Apart does their customers right
Asks customers to let them know how much the downtime has effected them by choosing how many days of free service they should receive.
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Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.
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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
Kareem Mayan, who has and still does work at a big company, considers why they have so much trouble being innovative.
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"That’s really what interests me the most: making dense and complicated information applications usable and pleasing for real people; it’s how I define the term “design.�"
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"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
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Pizza Flyers: The Height of Good Graphic Design?
"The fact is, pizza flyers set up precisely the right expectations about the product and the service: cheap, cheerful and quick."
Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude
""They've grown up questioning their parents, and now they're questioning their employers. They don't know how to shut up, which is great, but that's aggravating to the 50-year-old manager"
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"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."
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Coudal Partner's 12 minute short film.
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"With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format."
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"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
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Typography Crash Course Roundup
"The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
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"Founded on the premise that the consumer has the right to her data, ROOT Markets is the first financial exchange for consumer leads."
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AttentionTrust - Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You
Joshua Porter gives a great description of what AttentTrust is and what it aims to do.
Some great URLs including the one for Pen Island (penisland.com) and Mole Station Native Nursery (molestationnursery.com)
"On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline"
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Growing up with the wired generation
"Today's teenagers use technology to stay in touch with friends at all times - turning their bedrooms into 'connected cocoons'"
Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
"Clear, concise design is a key factor in the success of all user interfaces, especially when you consider the amount of information we’re all required to parse in today’s digital world."
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"A global TV guide, Torrent tracking, your favourites and recommendations plus an innovative social layer to hang it off. You want it, we want it, let's build it."
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" New visual strategies are connecting brands to consumers at a visceral level via stripped-down brand identities and communications."
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Seen On The Streets of Bushwick (New York)
Some beautiful street art from Brooklyn.
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Comments from 2001 about the iPod release
Boy, those are a bunch of upset Apple fans. I expect they're eating their words at this point.
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"SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be."
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The Remarkable Opportunities of Unbundled Media
As part of the Media in a Postmodern World series, Terry Heaton thinks about the opportunities that await as media continues to move in an unbundled direction.
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"This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function."
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"Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel."
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The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic
"Sure, it's a fun job. But when an owner threatens to get a gun because of my review, that's not so fun."
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"The purpose of this site is to aid new switchers in jumping straight to a lot of the amazingly good stuff that's available. All of the applications that are mentioned in the Quick Looks are used by me on a day to day basis."
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
David Pogue's 10 commandments to electronics makers
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Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach's Guide.
"What follows is the best strategy my staff and I have come up with to limit Teen Wolf's effectiveness on the court."
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"In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that peyote -- for now, the only legal hallucinogenic drug in the United States -- doesn't rob regular users of brain power over time."
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We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.
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Teen Content Creators and Consumers
"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
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How to spend your marketing and ad budget
"Is there something you can do that might be more creative and, in many cases today, at least--if not more--effective?"
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Thinking Sideways: Exploring pattern recognition acceleration
An interview with Malcolm Gladwell about Blink and the topics within.
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flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys
A whole bunch of cool little apps for Flickr photos.
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Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web
"From Lifehacker’s very own internal editorial style guide, today we’ll go over some simple guidelines for writing on the Web that will help you get your message across and elicit the best responses."
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"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."
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One concerned Godmother writes a letter to the local newspapers about her Godson's possible addiction to 'camel toad.'
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An Open Letter to the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
"But you and I together can continue the struggle for which Scooter Libby has become a martyr. Between us, we can shove the timid Colin Powells to the side until, as my future girlfriend Ann Coulter said the other day, "it's morning in America again!""
"Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. The one key ingredient is to have an open mind."
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A gallery full of screenshots and links to good blog design. It's in Spanish, by the way.
Why people believe in alien abductions
When compared with regular people, most abductees scored higher in belief in the paranormal and a tendency to hallucinate. Uhh . . . . duh.
Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
"The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher."
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Alito or Scalito? If you're a liberal, you'd prefer Scalia.
"When Antonin Scalia starts looking good, you know you're in trouble."
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Skewering Tradition to Sell a New Battery to the Young
"The Oxyride campaign is indicative of increasing efforts from mainstream advertisers to expand beyond traditional media like television and newspapers."
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Wired to Open Gadget Store in NYC
"The purpose of the store would be to give shoppers a chance to see the latest technology and gadgets up close."
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Read/Write Web: "My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world"
"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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Panasonic Targets Power-Hungry Device Users
"Afterhourscity.com is run by a handful of bloggers in five target markets, with Oxyride along as a sponsor with no editorial control over the blog's content, Murano said."
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ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
"Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12."
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when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
"The RIAA (and other such organizations) have been so successful at getting their media distributed that they have become culture. In turn, this means that they are the building blocks in which communication occurs."
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Public Enemy Takes It to the Net
Public Enemy is alive and kicking both on the net and off.
"VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks."
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"While blogging can be about playing on a world stage to influence . . . there are millions of people who are happily publishing daily without those motivations. For them, it's more about expression, self-reflection, and communication."
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"The set includes 15 custom, 32×32, transparent PNG icons, PSD file included. These icons are perfect for browser skins, or anything else you want to use them for."
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The other night all of New York City smelled like maple syrup. It was really bizarre.
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The four toughest talks in business
"All tough conversations put you on the defensive. Your job is to switch to offense and work toward a solution that satisfies both sides. To do this, you must understand four truths of tough talks"
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Steve Rubel: "This illustrates the gap they can narrow by getting more involved in the dialogue by having a blog."
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"The acclaimed SoHo store owner highlights the design trends he sees emerging around the world, from the human touch to low-tech approaches"
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If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History
Some screenshots of Fox News' coverage of important events through history
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"NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes."
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Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign
"The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven."
Everytime you buy something with your Bank of America debit card they'll round up to the nearest dollar and transfer the extra money to your savings account.
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Mycroft search plugin for The Hype Machine
Nice easy way to search for MP3s straight from Firefox.
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The commercial where they dropped a whole bunch of bouncy balls on a San Francisco street is out.
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Including the top 10 reasons to love Nike.
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10 Tips for Successful College Marketing
Some good things to think about if you're planning on marketing to college students.
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The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
"And if ClearRx is a success, you can be sure that no one will be happier than the graphic design community. Starved for years for persuasive proof that graphic design can make a difference, we finally have an icon to call our own."
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How the swoosh came to be for only $35.
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ABC Affiliates Begin Video Podcasting
"News affiliates WABC-TV in New York and WLS-TV in Chicago have begun video podcasting their broadcasts."
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Play the game, win a Swiss bank account. Sweet.
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Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market
"Known as broadband over power line, or B.P.L., the service is poised to challenge the cable and phone companies that dominate the high-speed Internet market."
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Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes
"Now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including “vodcasts,� or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us."
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Most Designers aren't Design Thinkers - Yet
"The shorthand of “design thinking� gathers a set of skills and perspectives that correlate to increased design maturity framing and solving problems, instead of designing function, form, and style."
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IKEA asked 28 designers to explore and experiment. Check out what they came up with.
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20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
"Top 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage."
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I hear this a fair amount myself, no necessarily from media people, but just randomly. It always feels a bit bizarre.
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Top Ten Mac OS X Freeware/Shareware Applications
Andy Budd: "Here are my current top ten OS X freeware and shareware applications. What are yours and why?"
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Tracking Down An Address In 1939 Vienna
An AskMetafilter member asks if anyone can help track down the address of his grandfather in Vienna. In turn he gets not only the adress, but also documents including he never knew about.
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Jakob Nielsen: "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,"
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Nice and easy instructions from Mark Pilgrim
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"The Ogilvy PR BlogFeeds are our feeds from some of the most influential blogs out there. The ones we're reading every day."
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The World's Most Dangerous Geek : News
"Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans"
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Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers
Web 2.0 Conference: "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers."
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A search engine where "Del.icio.us users bookmarking helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) have greater influence on search rankings."
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An amazing interview with Cost and Revs for 1994
"Written back in 1994, I think it would be good for the Wooster readers to remember who took the paste up and turned it into something dangerous and started a Street Art phenomenon that is world wide now."
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"Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. There is no competition, not even from the huge companies with several-hundred-dollar software suites."
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Nick Denton: "The whole point about blogs is that they're not part of big media. Consolidation defeats the purpose. It's way too early. Like a decade too early."
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Seven Technologies That Change Everything
Everything from AJAX to biogenerics
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How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
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Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused
"A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging."
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"Jon Stewart is very funny and on his cult US television show he's a rare scourge of the rich and powerful, especially Bush and his court. Gary Younge puts it to him, is he really angry with America, or is he a man on a mission for the next joke?"
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"It also provides a look at what Apple is doing to get close to the customer, exame the consumer experience and get its product design and innovation right. CEOs, innovation champions, managers, designers, marketers"
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Bugs are pretty much the only thing left without any advertising . . . not for much longer.
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"Can you make the type bigger?"
"When design becomes client driven, and the designer sidelined to a role of passive implementer, the result is the timid repetition of formulaic ideas and endlessly recycled stylistic poses."
" I printed 15,000 of these bubble stickers and place them on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. I go back and photograph the results."
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How To Turn Your Hamster into a Fighting Machine!!
Who hasn't ever thought of this? (You're lying if you say you haven't.)
Not surprisingly, it's a blog about designers who blog
Lives of the Cannibals: Redemption
"And this is why the 2005 Yankees have a shot at being the most memorable team to come out of the City in years. They've seized every opportunity to make things hard this season."
A tutorial search engine for programming and design
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His 'Secret' Movie Trailer Is No Secret Anymore
NYTimes covers Robert Ryang's remixed Shining trailer
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Ever wonder what would happen if The Shining was just a little more cheerful?
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"For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlcoking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory."
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"Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications."
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Steven Johnson: "Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life"
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A good resource of free PHP and perl scripts including Advanced Poll
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"Download Gametap and play hundreds of the greatest arcade, console and PC games of all time."
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"Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations."
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Website of Jan Rambousek, freelance designer.
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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen: "The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005."
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Google refused to let TextDrive renew their Urchin license, so a bunch of passionate, smart, geeks are gonna go ahead and build their own stats program.
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The Guardian's New European Look
"It can take months before the full potential and strengths of a newspaper redesign become apparent. A paper is an instrument and its editors and designers have to learn how to play it to perfection."
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The DH Interview With Phillip Bouchard, Creator of Oregon Trail
Finally, an interview with the man behind the game I remember most from my childhood.
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"Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore."
"A young person is constantly taking risks as a means to improve him or herself; an older person feels that he or she has taken enough risks already and is sated with his or her point of development."
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"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
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Why we're releasing our latest album for free on the Internet
Harvey Danger is giving their latest album, Little by little . . . away for free. No catch. They're hoping it will get the music to the people. They are right.
A good story of the final logo Paul Rand designed.
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BugMeNot requires registration for any "employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration" with some great questions.
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A cognitive analysis of tagging
" "Or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular"
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Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
"Here's my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies."
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"This week, an Esquire editor invited Wikipedia users to edit an article that will appear in the magazine. Wikipedia users reacted strongly, with over 500 edits to WP:ITAAW before the article was frozen."
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"Slawesome lets you send emails with your voice. That rules."
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It's not what it is, it's what it enables
"Let me state the obvious: the real value of blogs and wikis is not the tool itself. It's what the tool enables. Sadly, many advocates overlook this simple fact."
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Penny Arcade pokes a little fun at the Delta SkyMall catalog
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"It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico."
Tags: strange dolphins army politics terrorism posted
"A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design."
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"Googlers from across the company contribute knowledge and opinions which are aggregated into a forecast by the market."
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How Would You Change The 'New York Times'?
An AdAge article in which a few designers think about how to fix the New York Times
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"I see the entire world as a market. To fill this niche I present you Indie Fantasy League. Um, I mean, capitalism sucks."
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Sometimes a Logo Is Just a Logo
"Quark's new logo is strikingly similar to several others. Is it theft? A global conspiracy? Or a failure to follow basic design principles? Gene Gable gives you the dirt, including ways you can sidestep the same type of predicament."
Links to lots of great cheat sheets including Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc.
Tags: design webdesign lifehacks reference posted
Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments
"Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged."
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"Hand coding your pages gives you unprecedented control over where each element appears on the page. You control where each element goes. You control how your code is formatted. You have the power."
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Mobile phones are more than just phones in China
"All this suggests a lot of room for growth, for China at least, in presumably the same "advanced services" that only 17% of UK survey respondents use on a daily basis"
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Stories of how street artists got their names. This installment includes: WK, Elboe-Toe, Klutch, Geo, Spazmat, and Dr. D.
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An impressive collection of posters from the Cuban revolution
Tags: art design politics cuba inspiration posted
The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist.
Tags: creativity design innovation posted
"We love this idea. What is HSBC using these VW vans for in New York City?" The BankCab gets some PSFK love.
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More coverage of the Guardian's redesign
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20 courses I didn't take in design school
Kottke: "As part of the conference within a conference for students, Michael Bierut listed 20 courses he did not take in design school (I think I got all of them)"
Kidsbeer proves hit suds for minors
"Kidsbeer, a nonalcoholic brew aimed at children, is catching on with young drinkers and is posting monthly shipments of 75,000 bottles, according to maker Tomomasu Co"
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"MyGoogle PageRank was created to enable webmasters to easily know and post PageRank on their pages without any Toolbar."
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And this time around it will be built by you
"delineate is a community driven visitor tracking service that tells you who your visitors are and what they want from the web."
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The designer behind the I Love New York logo amongst other iconic designs
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Simplicity: The Goldilocks Rule
Good design gives users just enough, but not too much, information -- once knowledge is gleaned, attention moves easily on to a larger task
Look what I clicked on ... Snoop on the world's top secret sites from your desktop
"Google Earth, irritatingly, won't allow you to type in "top secret military installation" and then provide a handy list of sites to look at."
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Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor with two lubricating strips
"Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the front and back."
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
"If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?"
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" These bits of inspiration are culled from interface designers, architects, authors, jazz greats, and more. What brings them together here is their affinity to our design philosophy."
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"The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's or web developer's life easier."
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"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
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"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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What's new in the latest beta version of Quicksilver?
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"Ads of the World (AotW) strives to be an advertising library and community site."
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Flash game in which Helvetica and Arial duke it out. Helvetica to Arial: "We don't need your type here."
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Methods Other Than Song by Which One Can Be Killed Softly.
McSweeney's: "Chinchilla attack"
"In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done� is becoming more and more true"
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Revolution Controller, Revolutionary
"Imagine it as a virtual light saber that you wiggle, turn, jab, etc... And you can pick two up in akimbo for some two-handed action."
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"that is why I believe that nano is the new turbo, another technical term appropriated by marketing people and applied in so many ways as to make it meaningless."
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Comparing two of New York's best burgers
"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
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" Design engineers face the challenge of making consumer products smaller and simpler without sacrificing detail or functionality"
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Photo of a note Bush was writing while at the UN saying he has to pee
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A series of Cynthia Greig photos of common objects in tiny proportions
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With RSS
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
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Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: O.C. Season 3
"Seth suggests hiding in Sandy Cohen’s eyebrowsâ€â€500/1"
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Questions democrats should ask Roberts: "Would you consider instituting a casual Friday dress policy on the bench?"
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Most people will, at some point, have played "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", the game that challenges you to link the prolific film star to any other in five steps. But Bacon's own thoughts on the game will finally be published next month in a new book.
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"So, the real value of communicative technologies like social software is that they re-enable and enhance our ability to use a time-tested means of information processing, i.e. the conversation, in new and interesting ways!"
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Interview with Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens of 9rules
"Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens is barely 25 years old and already has a productive entrepreneurial effort underway building a loose network of high quality blogs under his "9rules" banner."
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Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
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Friendster's Flattening and the Participation Generation
"If Jonathan had instead of found a way to accommodate hundreds of thousands passionate users who were doing a ton of free work on his behalf, I don’t think we would have ever heard of MySpace."
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"Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets"
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"The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, 'The Million Dollar Homepage".:
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The modern rules of advertising?
"He has drawn up a list of seemingly unwritten rules which, he concludes, might as well be the Advertising Bible."
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"This Web site is an invitation to people from all walks of life to share stories and evidence of how they use design in their everyday lives."
"Structure your life as the smart designer does the page. Leave space. Make it vital."
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New Approach From Gap to Cut Down on Clicks
""A lot of this was borrowing metaphors from the store experience," Mr. Lenk said."
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Assessing the new Guardian, with brief nod to the avant-garde (aka Grazia, Heat and The Sun)
A very long look at the Guardian's print redesign by cityofsound
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Why Google's Print Ad Experiment is a Really Big Freakin' Deal
"Google gets to know response rate, all in one place; they can even (ready for this?) charge based on it."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
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"TheNews.com.au®, was founded by Tasmanian Designer Jason Carter in 2001, with it’s prime objective to focus on design in Australia."
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"Frightening as this idea may be -- that the qualities of distributed social organization so widely championed among tech industry observers are currently being employed to kill innocent people -- it's not even the most terrifying insight to be found"
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Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist
Alan Dershowitz: "My mother always told me that when a person dies, one should not say anything bad about him. My mother was wrong."
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"His color is a lot like yours, but smooth and shaded like Unified. And thinner. No borders. It’s a very chic look. Reminds me of you, back in the day."
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"The use of it by one person naturally informs others of its availability and benefits. (eg Get your free web-based accessible at any computer e-mail at hotmail.com, condoms)"
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
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when mainstream media cite blogs
"There's something funny about watching mainstream media pick up their reporting habits from bloggers. I wonder if we get misspellings next?"
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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"Six Degrees of Separation"€� Theory Explained in New Algorithm
"It is remarkably efficient at finding the short paths between nodes without knowing the central network’s structure, say the researchers"
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"Six Degrees of Separation" Theory Explained in New Algorithm
"It is remarkably efficient at finding the short paths between nodes without knowing the central network’s structure, say the researchers"
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Nice list of Ajax apps that even includes honorable mentions.
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"What those who are afraid of civil society breaking down don't realize is that civil society has already broken down!"
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"Mobile phones are not just bad browsers on resource-constrained devices with crappy connectivity and non-free voice."
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"Tags are not organizational innovation they are an interface innovation. The difference between a tag and a category is non existent except that the interface threshold to create a tag is so low that people actually do it regularly."
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Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
"Our article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know has proven to be such a success that we decided it was time to offer you ten more CSS tricks that you may not know."
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"OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept."
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Writing Inspiration at the Press of a Button
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Some incredibly honest statements about what it means to be poor. A humbling read.
Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
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How to build on bubble-up folksonomies...
"For me, this is a pretty compelling argument that understanding semantic relationships between concepts makes folksonomic tagging even more exciting"
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Digital Web Magazine interview with Dan Cederholm
"Ethan Marcotte gives us an interview with Dan Cederholm about his new book, Bulletproof Web Design, and much more."
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Web Development Trends for 2006
"Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors . . . have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on."
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"The web is listening to what you have to say. Admiring your design. Talking about your product. Mint helps you identify where the most interest is being generated and over what."
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"Enter your cube's configuration in the space provided below, and hit Solve."
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"This is a plugin set consisting of two plugins, one for entries and the other for authors, that allow you to (finally) define custom fields in a powerful way rather than resorting to hacks."
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Garrett Dimon's site of "Inspirational and Motivational Quotations"
Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers
"Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on my web-site, have a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources."
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How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
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"But lurking behind it is the more intriguing fact that it is a marketing campaign -- not a political figure, or a major news organization, or even a film -- that ''opened a dialogue'' (as one of the young women said to People)."
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Open Letter to the Kansas School Board
The letter that got the whole Flying Spaghetti Monster thing started
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Publish books yourself with no minimums
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"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
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"You played it in study hall. You played it at slumber parties. Now it's time to play it on the web."
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."
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Pasting up big Gonzo faces all over Philadelphia
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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"This is a website written by a guy who likes to complain about the small fiddly parts of things."
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Pioneering programmer Joshua Dvis works with a star pupil: his software.
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?
"Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"
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"Just click any element on this page, for example the banner, and a box will appear that will allow you to set various styling options."
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"Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Typeâ„¢, TypePadâ„¢, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto."
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McSweeney's: "Camus is boring. I find Karl Jaspers's philosophy much more enlightening."
"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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How to handle an emotional conversation
"If people worked like web browsers (thank god they don’t!) you could just check the “history� button or look at the log files and figure it out. Since people are biological beings (thank god they are!), you need to take a more biological approach."
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Searching for a fake word in the New Oxford American Dictionary
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Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $1 million)
"We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
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"The all-Target New Yorker is the product of more nakedly mercenary world where advertisers no longer need conceal their aims."
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The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York.
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Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
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"MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging."
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Structuralist Collective: The Stifling Effects of the Formulaic Approach
"Using the same approach over and over for projects, just because it's worked before or because it's comfortable, can be detrimental to your creative well being. In fact, it can be devastating."
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"The SeeSS Widget is a quick and handy reference sheet for 140 CSS (1, 2 & 3) properties (proprietary extensions are not included)."
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10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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Creating a Star Rater using CSS
"Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I’m talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state."
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Dan Dickinson recorded a song Ted Leo had written the morning of the South Street Seaport show
"Looking at the Google logo, it says to me, "Hi! I'm not very bright and I love looking directly at the sun!""
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Street art around New York, all being released to the public domain
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"At XPLANE we measure five dimensions of quality for any customer engagement. The dimensions include the quality of the output as well as the process"
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" A small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application."
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GUIdebook: "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."
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MySpace: Is 'ghetto' a design choice?
"From a design perspective we have to look at it as a failure, but obviously it's not. Why is that? Why hype ugliness?"
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"Available exclusively in Amazon.com's Apparel & Accessories Store, Necessary Objects for The O.C. is the first branded women's fashion collection for The O.C."
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Photo Gallery Templates available
Stopdesign: "Without putting too much fanfare into this, I’m proud to inform anyone interested that the MT version of my Photo Gallery Templates are finally available for download."
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An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
"Over the last several years I’ve been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards . . . This overview is sort of my penance.
GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
Kottke riffs on the idea of a web operating system
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"Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world."
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An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
"To make better sites  sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable"  we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements."
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"Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them."
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"On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether."
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" A piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual representation of the memory to create an interactive one."
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Scans of the ads in the New Yorker issue that Target completely bought out
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
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"Approximately 1800 web sites later, I have this collection of 300 of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display."
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The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
"In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects."
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" Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document."
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Customer Service Phone Numbers & Email Addresses
Including Amazon.com (1-800-201-7575)
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"This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds."
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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web
"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."
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Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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SFist bitches out the Blog Business Summit PR department
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"Use Protopage for quick access to web sites, and to keep sticky notes"
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Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book.
McSweeney's: "Canceled Due to Fire"
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"There have been a lot of excellent posts and articles this week about APIs, the Web as Platform, web sites as software companies, and so forth. Here's my own mash-up of some of the highlights"
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"A nasty hangover is Mother Nature's way of telling you, "Fool, I thought I told you not to drink so much. Now you gonna pay." (Don't ask us why Mother Nature sounds like Mr. T.)"
Guy Breaks Up with Girlfriend Using PowerPoint
Last years viral PowerPoint was rediscovered thanks to some helpful people at Ask Metafilter and reposted for everyone's enjoyment.
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"advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals"
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Late night legend. Wild animal beast. Who will win?
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"et's see: Flown into New York? Check. Booked at the Regency with outrageous demands? Check. Waited on hand and flipper with lavish room service? Check."
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"The elements of design discuss the components of the composition itself, and provide the designer with a basic set of tools to begin working with."
"We focus on the fact that it is Web design and push aside core design conceptsâ€â€concepts that can that make any project stronger without interfering in the more technical considerations later on."
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
" What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location?"
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Physics of Passion: The Koolaid Point
Creating Passionate Users: "Forget the tipping point--if you want to measure passion, look for the koolaid point."
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Five California cities that sound kind of dirty
"Fawnskin"
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Hey DJ - Web 2.0 and remix culture
"If the value of the content is created by we the people, then we the people should be able to take that content back and build new things with it."
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Developing web-sites, exploring own imagination (CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.)
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"So we let web designers view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins. We're trying to make this service easy to use, open for all (including access to the source code) and 100% free, as
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"The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software."
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Interdisciplinary People vs. Teams?
"Creativity by committee can be doomed to fail if the groups themselves are not chosen carefully by some who knows the talents and the personalities involved."
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"Generate a custom packing list for any journey!"
Tags: travel lifehacks organization posted
"As the stories in the Book of Jobs tell it, the iPod is only one of an entire species to come from the hand of this incredibly Intelligent Designer."
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"First Comprehensive Study of the Actual Online Behavior of Blog Visitors Now Available"
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Interaction Design & Written Language
"Leading users through a narrative requires maintaining enough context and information to communicate current status as well as enough interest and clarity to get them to the end."
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Acts Prohibited by the U.S. House of Representatives' Proposed Flag-Burning Amendment.
McSweeney's: "Assuring the flag that you consider it a really good friend, and then pressuring it to sleep with you."
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37signals: Part 3 and my coffin is being prepared
Whitespace: "Many of us have gotten to the point of where we either give a website a 10 or a 0. Why can't we see what's good and not so good (see that sounds much better than "bad") about websites/apps?"
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SimpleBits: "Here’s a quick look at the methods and techniques I used to create an icon from the Overcast set."
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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience
"And that’s the point I want to make. One of the hidden dangers of highly customized software, and products flush with preferences, is that it becomes very difficult to craft an ideal customer experience."
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AttentionTrust.org Explained Better
"You want to leverage your valuable attention/time/spending power so you get what you deserve. That's what AttentionTrust.org is championing."
An interview with flickr's eric costello
Jesse James Garrett interviews Eric Costello, the Client Development Lead for Flickr and a prominent web developer.
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Why do Americans love it so much?
Tags: food culture posted health
An Open Letter to My Doppelgänger.
McSweeney's: "I'm not sure what my rights are vis-à-vis the doppelgänger contract, but in the interest of maintaining my (our?) reputation, I wonder if we could establish some ground rules."
Tags: funny posted personality
McSweeney's: "There Are Plenty of Mohicans"
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Rushkoff: "But cable television is not the place to launch the great interactive media experiment for the 21st Century. The great cable TV revolution already happened with CNN and MTV."
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"I think that the new Apple mouse could be really nice. However, I feel that Apple's choice of cartoon mice could have been better."
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ChangeThis: "Everyone is always wondering what kids are thinking. DK gives you view into the complicated and sometimes contradictory world of today's teens."
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Drunkey Love - part of el73.be
"Drunkey | Love is the home of free to use resources created by Kevin Wetzels of el73."
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On Cory Doctorow's Apple/Trusted Computer rant: "Doctorow is clearly ascribing deviousness onto Apple, without a single shred of evidence to back it up."
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Wired takes a look at just how A9 pulled off block-view
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"We voted, we sorted, we yelled, we cried, we took a little nap and eventually this is the list we came up with -- our Top 100 Games of All-Time, at least for this year."
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Art prankster sprays Israeli wall
Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.
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"When the Marx Brothers were about to make a movie called "A Night in Casablanca," there were threats of legal action from the Warner Brothers, who, five years before, had made a picture called, simply, "Casablanca""
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"Current RSS users are predominately male, 66 percent are adults and 65 percent in the 12 to 21 youth age group."
"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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Apple introduces two-button mouse, a collective silence falls over all those who make the argument Apple sucks because there's no right click.
Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
"My data is my life, and I won't keep it in a strongbox that someone else has the keys for."
Tags: apple drm internet software posted
"Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome photos on Flickr."
Tags: flickr photography cool posted
Interview With Niku Banaie, Director Of Innovation At Naked
"Over the course of a 2 part interview IF discusses with Niku Banaie, the director of innovations, about advertising, Naked and their approach to creativity."
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"Klosterman sat down with SPIN.com to talk about New York, the state of rock criticism, and -- what else -- Foghat."
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New Yorker: "She’s petite. And I was over in the big run and . . . I am in love. I can’t be cool."
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NYTimes: "A backpack! Has a more ordinary, more benign, more ubiquitous accouterment of modern life ever taken on such a sudden connotation of darkness?"
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A list of good (and bad) musicians' websites
Tags: music design internet posted
Gore's Webby TV Network Debuts
"With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks -- on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest."
Tags: internet television collaboration posted
Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
Tags: creativity ideas innovation lifehacks productivity thinking tools posted
Innovation: Throwing Design Rules Out The Window
"Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored."
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When the Decemberists' instruments were stolen, their fans clubbed together to buy them some more. How does a band inspire such loyalty?
Types of Stories My Mother Tells
As it begins, you’re pretty sure you’ve heard this one before. Wait, no, maybe this time it’s different. Maybe this time it’ll have an extra nugget of sage advice. Maybe? A catalog of favorite themes.
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Cisco Harasses Security Researcher
"If companies have the power to censor information about their products they don't like, then we as consumers have less information with which to make intelligent buying decisions."
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The step-by-step process of redesigning Digg
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Security researcher quits job and blows whistle on Cisco's fatal flaws
"Now he's under a restraining order from Cisco, arising from his disclosure of critical flaws in Cisco's routers that threaten the world's information infrastructure."
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"And what about previously unsupported CSS2 properties? Have we got :hover support on any element other than a yet? Sorry. What about selectors? Same as ever. Could we at least ask for a bit of position: fixed? Keep wishing."
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"What we're witnessing is viral contagion - the beginnings of what some hope will spawn an epidemic of suicide attacks."
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Pew Internet: Teens and Technology
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
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gapingvoid: "Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted."
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What creativity is for Steve jobs? It is all about experience connectivity
"When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had
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In One Stroke, Podcasting Hits Mainstream
"Overnight, iTunes 4.9 has already become the most popular podcast-management software on earth; Apple says that within 48 hours of its release, Pod people had subscribed to more than a million podcasts."
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"A lot of the links to the service say things like "full of AJAXy goodness!" or "guess how small the dev team was?" or "it's Ruby on Rails!". People, this is a tool for helping your business make more money."
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"Open Media 100, self-proclaimed, self-important bloggers glad-handing every other blogger with WordPress and a stupid idea ….vomit vomit vomit."
Press release from Feedster talking about the new ability of AOL portal users to customize their homepage with RSS feeds. Score one for Feedster.
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Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over
Senator, would your probe of video games also take a look at the substantial benefits they can provide?
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Killer resources for entrepreneurs
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"How do you turn a middle-aged, bookish writer who loathes computer games and violence into a gun-toting, head-stamping street punk? Simple - deliver a stack of the latest consoles to his front door."
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A guide to open bars in New York City. Wow . . .
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How Craigslist Has Changed New York
“Erotic servicesâ€? providers, reality-TV casting agents, Eames loversâ€â€all have plenty of reasons to celebrate the site’s fifth anniversary.
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"Ah, the summer rooftop party, one of the delights of New York socializing, whether the setting is a Fifth Avenue terrace with manicured topiary or a sprawl of tar in Chelsea miraculously transformed by a Weber grill . . . into an egalitarian penthouse".
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Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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Some great quotes about dealing with terrible clients.
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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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"I’m so Goth, I carry black food dye around in case I have to eat anything that's not black."
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10 Worthwhile Albums You Might Have Missed This Year
Pitchforkmedia.com: "a few albums we've all really enjoyed this year, but which-- whether a result of a technicality, bad timing, or just bad luck-- have managed to elude our Best New Music section."
Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: "It's not about what YOU do... it's about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver."
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Keeping T-Shirts in the Moment
NYTimes: "Lately limited edition T-shirts, most likely made in someone's cellar in Brooklyn, have suddenly become the hipster's preferred mode of expression."
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Co-opting the creative revolution
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.
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A visualization of what life could have been like if different things had happened. Follow all the paths.
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KCRW to Podcast Morning Becomes Eclectic
" Beginning Thursday, July 21, Los Angeles based public radio station KCRW (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) will offer podcasts of live sessions performed by unsigned and independent artists on its signature music show, Morning Becomes Eclectic hosted by Nic Harcou
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"Before resealing a can of paint, blow one deep breath into the can and close it quickly."
A list of the designs discussed in The Zen of CSS Design.
Three-dimensional looking chalk sidewalk art.
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Things My Boss Said to Me Without Elaborating.
McSweeney's: "Quick. Tell me everything of consequence that has happened."
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The VERY LONG May, 1996 article about tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand that was the inspiration for the movie The Insider
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Forgotten pictures of popular people
Don't miss Hasslehoff's chest hair on page four.
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Haunted Halloween
In this installment, Elisabeth takes her T.A., Raj, to a costume party, where he refuses to dance. You decide what happens next.
A 1997 article examing Hotmail's use of "viral marketing" to grow it's user base
A new Pew study indicates only 9% of Americans know what an RSS feed is
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Nothing To Fear From Executive Blogging
Bob Lutz of General Motors: "To any senior executive on the fence about starting a corporate blog, I have a word of advice: Jump."
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CNet looks at the top 10 web fads over the last 10 years. Where's Dahler Mendi?
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Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.
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Why children love Roald Dahl’s storiesâ€â€and many adults don’t.
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"The secretive research group that helps run the movie business."
Inside the big switch: The iPod and the future of Apple Computer
"The cold, hard reality here is that the Mac is Apple's past and the iPod is Apple's future, in the same way that the "PC" is the industry's past and the post-PC gadget is industry's future."
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An Open Letter to the Leader of the Ant Nation Residing in My Bathroom.
"Why do you want to be in my bathroom? What do you seek? There is no food there! Not a morsel. Were you to attack my kitchen, attempt a coup there, I would kill you with the same abandon, but I might be more understanding of your plight."
How two mathematicians came to the aid of the Met.
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By buying Web player Intermix Media and its runaway hit social-networking site, the media conglomerate gains on the Internet giants
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On the Job, the Pauses That Refresh
NYTimes: "There is a point, of course, where distraction becomes blatant slacking off, but I would argue that some percentage of time wasted during work is actually a part of the work."
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NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
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See what happens when you zoom all the way in.
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How foie gras became the new fur.
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The fired nanny from the New York Times article refutes many of the claims from "The Nanny Diaries are Now Online"
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Once again showing that people don't get fired for blogs, but for their indiscretion in using them.
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A blog about creative information visualization
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New York's #1 Escort Reveals All
The $2000 an-Hour Hooker and the Sex Mogul Who Loved Her
Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates
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The inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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'This is what real British rap looks like'
No longer the poor relative of its American cousin, UK hip-hop has finally established itself as the voice of the nation's youth, says Mike Skinner.
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Cruise has tossed off the shackles of Hollywood oppression and is piloting his Scientology-fueled funny car straight towards you."
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"John D. Berry journeys through the bowels of our transit systems in search of enlightenment and a few clear directions."
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Carny Lingo from Welcome to The Fair
"I believe this is the most comprehensive glossary of carnival terms to be found anywhere on the Internet."
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Rides From the Amusement Park of My Collective Memory.
McSweeney's: "Custody Battle"
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Does Friendster appeal over wifester and familyster?
The Onion considers just what makes internet social networks appealing
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"Much of the "canned laughter" used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of "The Red Skelton Show""
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The fundamental unit of the web
Kottke.org: "And now it seems that there are several efforts underway to cut the fundamental unit down to the phrase or word."
"These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now."
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Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
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Readers proclaim their love for and loyalty to everything from iPods and TiVo to scum scrubbers and baby blankets.
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Interview with Eric von Hippel: "I mean that product and service users-both individuals and firms-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves."
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A Guide to Getting Things Done
Wired breaks down just what Getting Things Done is
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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Indie-rock hero Frank Black goes one-on-one with his literary hero, the indomitable Ray Bradbury.
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Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried, president and founder of 37signals
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"The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom."
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Google Information for Webmasters
Google explains how to get yourself listed and ranked on their search engine.
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Jakob Nielsen explains the three things holding up usability on the web.
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"Pre-filters" vs. "Post-filters"
"But in Long Tail markets, where distribution is cheap and shelf space is plentiful, the safe bet is to assume that everything is eventually going to be available. The role of filter then shifts from gatekeeper to advisor."
You're emotional. Deal with it.
"People don't choose rationally to listen to your message and then have a feeling about it. They choose to listen to your message because they have a feeling about it."
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Directors Reveal Their Top 10 Lists
Everyone loves a list - even film directors. But what do their Top 10s say about their personalities?
ESPN catches up with infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman
"Simply click one button while you're listening to a favourite shared track and it's copied to your machine, and added to the iTunes Music Library (and a playlist, so you can keep track of your downloads)."
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Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users
New York Times jumps on the RSS advertising article bandwagon. Let the downward spiral begin.
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A backup of the Pacman widget on MacUpdate
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McSweeney's: "A penny saved is a penny you don't have to earn by writing excitedly about wealth-management investment strategies for baby-boomer retirees."
These are the AOL video clips from the Live 8 concert series from July 2nd.
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Anil Dash offers tips to clueless PR people for pitching bloggers
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Calculate the distance of your walk (or run) using this cool Google Maps remix
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Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Everything you need to do to write like Kerouac
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Inside Odeo with Evan Williams
Another interview with Evan Williams on Odeo
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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"“Firefox?� The Rabbi stops and thinks for a minute, rubbing his beard. “Ah yes! The one that blocks all the schmutz.�"
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BusinessWeek looks at Cornerstone and other so-called "experiential" brands marketing to the hip
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How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book
"For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like Mr. Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books."
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Inc.: "Refining your company's message is an ongoing process and it requires considerable discipline."
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Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy.
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"Started by three Harvard sophomores in February 2004 as an online directory to connect the higher education world through social networks, Thefacebook now registers more than 5,800 new users a day."
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The Star Maker of the Semipopular
NYTimes profile of Nic Harcourt, DJ of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
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On Moleskines: "Even if you're carrying it to another boring staff meeting to take notes about sales projections, the notebook makes for a fantastic emblem of creative possibility."
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A VC: "Blogging 2.0 has developed to the point that the $410 million that The New York Times paid for About.com is going to look really cheap in a few years."
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Why Analog Property Rights Are Wrong For a Digital World: DRM vs Plasticity
"Since most DRM is based on the fundamentally flawed notions of analog property rights discussed above, it can (in the long run) never work in a digital world."
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"Recently I was lucky enough to grab the attention of the venerable Quicksilver developer, Alcor, and ask him some questions about the OS X-altering program he conceived."
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The no frills inspirational site.
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An answer to how many calories are there in that California roll.
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A look at the different ways people in London, Paris and Madrid use their mobile phones.
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Face-to-face with Brian Eno, the brainiest person in pop
Brian Eno, aka the brainiest person in pop, tells Alexis Petridis why his attempts to oust the prime minster were destined to fail
"No matter how much you loved "Napoleon Dynamite", Vote For Pedro shirts aren't cool anymore."
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Klosterman: "The Ten Best Proper Nouns of the Spin Era That Are Not Albums (or EPs), as Selected by People Who Are Currently in My Office."
Whatever happened to the five kids in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"?
"As far as the actors go, we're happy to report they all escaped the chocolate factory unscathed."
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An ongoing collections of quotes and references to design in business
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"A thought struck me about how successful, modern mainstream brands (think Jet Blue, Axe, even Fox News) now behave. They act like insurgents."
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Business Week's cover: the kiss of death
A look back at Business Week covers over the past thirty years and the havoc they cause.
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Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
"By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules."
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This widget displays the much of the essential information from the CSS Cheat Sheet from I love Jack Daniels.
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A look at different ways to keep yourself cable clutter-free
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Can woman live on Mickey D’s alone?
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Shortcuts to find a real person when you call an automated phone system.
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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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Some cool experiments with CSS that include all the code.
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"Inspired by a post from Joe Kraus, this past Thursday we had the first of hopefully many "Hackathon" days at FeedBurner world headquarters to celebrate the last day in our old, very cramped office."
This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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By what you throw away, they shall know you. One woman’s quest to learn the afterlife of her own trash.
How to find and add media to your iTunes library with del.icio.us
"Now that iTunes 4.9 supports podcasting and video blogging, you can use the del.icio.us bookmarking service to auto-load music and video files others have bookmarked."
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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Put up stickers in support of Darwin and evolution
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Supreme Court's unsound decision
Monday's ruling against Grokster will do nothing to stop peer-to-peer file sharing -- but it may well stifle technology innovation.
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Web Content by and for the Masses
The next generation web will be read/write . . . wow New York Times, way to be on the ball.
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The Speech the President Should Give
John Kerry walks through the things the President should do about the military situation in Iraq
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Monopoly has turned London into a big boardgame using cabs and GPS
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Interview With Josh Rubin, Mr. Cool Hunter
IF decided to ask the Cool Hunter a few questions about the site and the consultancy he offers brands.
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Internet's new wave proves hard to catch
The press wants to get bloggers on its side, but a US experiment shows it may not be easy, writes Rafael Behr
Take That, Evil! In Queens Park, a Superhero Prevails
Bibleman hits queens
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"How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis"
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Waxy.org: "By collecting aggregate information about bookmarked sites, they'll be able to increase the relevancy of their search results and marginally combat the spam problem."
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For a fee, some blogs boost firms
"With a growing number of businesses using blogs to help promote their products, sometimes in ways that are not very transparent, it is increasingly difficult to discern who or what is behind a blogger's pitch . . ."
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Lies, All Lies, by Sarah Hepola
"In this installment, Elisabeth keeps a secret while trying to survive a weekend of everyone else’s parents. You decide what happens next."
The Roving Thoughts of a Liberal Insomniac
Larry David's stream of concsciousness includes Karl Rove and an all child molester army. Strange.
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"Known for the Air Jordan and Miller High Life ads, the agency's creative director Jelly Helm was recently featured in "Men's Health" magazine offering five rules of creativity."
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Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)
"don't clobber your biggest fans with pitches to ads and instead relegate ads to areas where it might help people find more information or related products."
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Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
Arstechnica: "In the future, most robots will look pretty much like the robots of the future have looked since at least the 1970's."
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Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures
On the walls of Yahoo's modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo's employees can come up with something bi
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Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution
Scientists are opting out of state debates on evolution because they feel it only strengthens the idea that there's actually something worth debating.
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Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet
NYTimes: "For despite years of security improvements and tougher, more coordinated law enforcement efforts, the information that criminals siphon - credit card and bank account numbers, and whole buckets of raw consumer information - is boldly hawked on t
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Speak Up!: "I imagine myself getting court marshaled for using the wrong typeface, or having to relinquish my ‘designer hours’ for 5am bugle calls."
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On Andy Milonakis, viral video turned MTV star
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File-Swap Services Can Be Sued
Wired: "Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday"
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Web Services Built on Top of One Another
pc4media: "As soon as a new web service reaches a critical value, it can spawn 1000s more web services. "
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The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker
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Exclusive: interview with Mr. Sun about the OS X Weather Dashboard widget
Kottke interviews the sun????
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The DOJ has wisely made the world safer by forcing anyone even remotely connected with publishing erotic images online to keep elaborate files on the true identities of everyone in said images for seven years.
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Five simple steps to better typography
"So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure."
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The Evolution of the Starbucks Logo
A look at the evolution of the Starbucks logo over the last 40 years or so
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Cityofsound on London's private public spaces
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In an attempt to consolidate into one place all the scripts that happened to come into existence over the last few months, I've finally managed to come up with this site. Hope you like it.
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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Top Ten Signs You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About Web 2.0
Read/Write Web: "6. Your favorite pickup line: "You show me your API, I'll show you mine.""
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My sad, hungry climb to Internet stardom.
"This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. "
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The Man Who Keeps Nintendo Cool
Wired interview with Shigeru Miyamoto the man behind Mario and pretty much every other important Nintendo game.
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"Late-night infomercial clown Matthew Lesko has authored nearly 100 books on government grants. His formula? “I don’t write,� he says. “I plagiarize.�"
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"The line that has long separated human beings from the machines that assist them is blurring as complex technologies become a visible part of people who depend upon them."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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"DeVigal pointed to the website of Noah Brier as a place where he goes to keep an eye on trends in this developing field, so I’ll just pass on that reference before I run."
"Tackboard is a design comp application. A program used by designers to upload screenshots of designs before they're built out into HTML for clients to review."
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Interview: Odeo founder Evan Williams
Playlist: "Williams’ newest venture is called Odeo, a one-stop shop to help people record, edit, publish, find, subscribe, categorize, and download podcasts."
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With Audioblogger you can post audio to your blog from any phone.
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Five reasons social networking doesn't work
Cnet on the five reasons social networking sites suck
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Fruity Juice Brand Attacks Union Square!
No one informed Snapple that even the largest popsicle ever melts in the sun
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Big Ben is back, badder than ever
"As racist as it really is, the fact that white people can walk around the Palace in fake black Afro wigs without black folks taking offense is a testament to the power of racial "go beyond" that he has single-handedly generated."
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Garrett Dimon: "We learn something new, a competitive advantage if you will, and we post about it as soon as we can to share it with the world."
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Ad Slogans That Would Be Perfect for Levitra, But, Unfortunately, They Have Already Been Used.
McSweeney's: "Like a rock."
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Things Not Overheard at a Conceptual-Art Gallery Opening.
McSweeney's: ""Does naming the work 'Chaos' belie the artist's reliance upon a sparse, monochromatic field, or am I just a pretentious douchebag?""
# Likenesses of cartoon characters, many made in garages and sold by small vendors, prompt legal action by entertainment giants.
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"With help from experts and product manufacturers, Real Simple has compiled a guide to expiration dates. These dates are offered as a rough guideline."
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The Art of Creating Passionate Consumers: Howard Schultz
The legendary leader of Starbucks sets down his recipe for building and leveraging a rich relationship with consumers
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Call Me Shithead, or, What's in a Name?
Design Observer: Naming things is a "design-related activity that virtually every person on earth feels fully qualified to undertake on their own, for free."
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Living On The Edge At American Apparel
Dov Charney's fast-growing clothing company is built on pro-labor policies, racy ads, and a sexually charged culture
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Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not.
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"This is it...the notorious casino carpet gallery: six pages of casino carpeting and nothing but."
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Playing Dumb with Videogame Clerks
"We sent our spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for her gamer beau, on a quest for flimflam advice at four major game retailers."
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The Five Things I Learned In Business School
A VC: "I learned five things in business school. They are five important things, but there are only five that I can list."
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Huffington Post interview with Errol Morris where he gives a shoutout to Banksy
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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The worst best friends in Hollywood.
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Is Robert Horry the NBA's best clutch shooter or its best con man?
Customer Relationships are Fundamental
Feedster CEO writes about turning on customers to your brand through blogs.
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NYTimes: "To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal - and to have a good time doing it."
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"Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly."
Open source software companies undercutting other open source software companies. Sounds like war.
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A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World
"One of the most exciting things that's going to happen in the next 10 years, in my view, is that the Wikipedia will move into the physical world."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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"A pop star salutes skillful shoppers, and the act of buying becomes a commodity itself."
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"The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. There are exceptions of course. But I also think this can be applied to other things. Segway, anyone?"
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In this decade, it has become remarkably easy to fall behind the times if you're not paying attention. And few things are more frustrating than trying to stay ahead of the latest buzzwords.
Pew on Online Sports Fantasy Leagues
Eight percent of adult American internet users say they participate in sports fantasy leagues online. That represents roughly 11 million people.
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On the battle (??) between OpenBSD and Linux
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Where’s your stuff? Find out at the touch of a button thanks to Dashboard and Monkey Business Labs’ Package Tracker widget.
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Are You Ready For The Catalytic Consumer?
iMedia: "The old marketing doesn’t work any more. The internet has created a new kind of consumer; one that is personally informed, market-savvy and demands two-way permission-based interactions -- in other words, the marketer’s equal."
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" war stories Military analysis. Let's Go to the Memo What's really in the Downing Street memos? By Fred Kaplan Updated Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at 3:00 PM PT Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day Listen to this story on NPR's
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The Family Guy Salutes Shepard Fairey
Apparently Peter painted a big Obey Giant on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS
5ives: "Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor"
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The journalist and the murderer
A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife and three children. The result is the most unlikely "True Story" you'll ever read.
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An Open Letter to the Human Resources Department of the Superfriends.
Are the Superfriends looking for a geneticist to join their ranks?
Public Broadcasting Targeted By House
"A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street" . . ."
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WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA: Pac-Man turns 25
Technology Review: "From the early 1980s "Pac-Mania" to today's endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar."
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Display made from curtain of mist lets users click in mid-air.
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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The 30 albums that Pitchfork has given a perfect 10.0 to
Half-Assed Erotic Film Classics.
McSweeney's: "Debbie Does Amarillo"
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Things That, If Knowing Is Half the Battle, Might Be the Other Half.
McSweeney's: "25 percent drinking, 25 percent weeping"
What I've Learned: The Collected Wisdom
A collection of Esquire Magazine articles with famous people telling the world what they've learned
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Garrett Dimon: "On the web, precise control of how a design is experienced is a lot like squeezing a wet bar of soap. The more you tighten your grip, the more likely it is to fly out of your hands."
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Mistakes developers can make using AJAX
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
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The Mystery of the Duane Reade Drugstores
The aisles are an obstacle course, the staff moves at glacial speed, and the prices aren’t even that low. So how did it become the only place you’d ever think to go for your tube of Aquafresh?
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New Yorker: "The term “crisis management� may seem like little more than a euphemism for “snow job,� but there is an art to it. Spin alone won’t do the trick."
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All Consuming: An Interview with Rob Walker
Rob Walker examines consumer behavior in his weekly column, "CONSUMED," for The New York Times Magazine. While demurring at the label "design critic" . . .
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TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 1: The 'Intel Inside' chimes
Ever wonder where things like the Intel, Microsoft and THX sound come from? Well, check out this series of articles.
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How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI
Nation: "His cunning worked. He fooled Pat Gray. Nixon never came after him. And this clever bureaucrat continued to do exactly what Nixon feared: telling Woodward and Bernstein secrets that would help destroy a presidency."
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Ted Koppel: "We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we drive . . . "
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"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected"
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Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
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With the Swedish furniture chain in expansion mode, design exec Lena Simonsson-Berge discusses how it views the U.S. market
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Old brews cool to young drinkers
"Just as young consumers might wear '70s-look sneakers, sip '50s cocktails or download '80s hair band tunes, many are bellying up to the bar for the beers Grandpa drank"
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Yoko Ono has long been defined by her status first as John Lennon's wife and then his widow. But now, at 72, she says she is brimming with a newfound love for life - kinda thing
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10 Commandments for The Era of Participatory Public Relations
Micro Persuasion: "Here are the 10 commandments for public relations professionals as I see them in the Golden Era of Participation…"
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The Dark Underbelly of Holy Shit
"An honest HOLY SHIT is one which completely penetrates the PR, the BUZZ, the marketing. It's the moment when you clearly see the value of a technology and how it will permanently alter your world."
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"Welcome to oldmencrying.com, a site dedicated to the lachrymal performances of the elderly. "
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"He's away from his desk" is something that's now true of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Pickup Lines: The First Drafts.
McSweeney's: "Your father must have been a thief. I don't know, you just have the look of someone who was raised by criminals."
An Open Letter to the Totally Impractical Size Chart for Women's Clothing.
McSweeney's: "If only you were a sensible size chart, one using inches, or even centimeters, the world would be a better place"
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An Open Letter to the Eight-Hour Workday.
McSweeney's: "Shoot, when you think about it, an eight-hour day really comes down to a good four hours and 54 and a half minutes, give or take."
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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World Beard and Moustache Championships
Now those are some serious beards
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Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
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An Icon interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
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Transparency and sponsorship in the blogosphere
Marc Canter's explanation of his "pay bloggers to blog" strategy
Laptops are mobile devices, too
peterme.com: "Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating them as interesting and distinct entities that warrant special consideration as a mobile device. "
Chinese blogs face restrictions
The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites.
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Stop your presentation before it kills again!
Creating Passionate Users: "Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely."
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Creating Passionate Users: "So... how are you heping your users/customers/students/guests/visitors/clients/members/readers kick ass?"
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Post Sizes in RSS Feeds, A Counterpoint  Business Logs
Why full-length posts make sense in RSS feeds
Panasonic Promotes Plasma "Heaven"
ClickZ: "Panasonic and Renegade Marketing Group have conjured a quirky "spokesangel" for an online promotional campaign for the company's plasma TVs."
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My short, scary career as a sperm donor
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Message that was less than grossly offensive
A guy changes a customer service hold message and when sued, gets off because it was only "offensive" not "grossly offensive"
Seth Godin: "One of the implications of the Long Tail is that you don't know what's going to work. That it's easy to launch stuff, hard to figure out where it's going to land."
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Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire
Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.
Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New
The New York Times examines the class divide on Nantucket
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From the very first moment we suit up for gym, our physical abilities can influence who we become or reveal who we were meant to be: blooming star athlete or total band nerd.
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Jonah Peretti, Director of R&D at Eyebeam
"Hipster designers and viral marketing firms almost always fail when they try to recreate the magic of these serendipitous projects."
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Surviving a lightning strike.
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NYTimes: "Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
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Going commando? Chavtastic, says dictionary
The dictionary adds words such as "going commando" and "drunk dialing"
The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
As the Religious Right tries to ban the teaching of evolution in Kansas, Richard Dawkins speaks up for scientific logic
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The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic Thinking
"Self-reflective thinking is making a comeback in school curricula and the homeschooling movement, and it also seems to succeed on standardized tests of achievement and problem solving assessments."
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"Trends are not an accusation of some widespread lack of original thinking. Instead, they are a sign of design evolution in our ever-shrinking world."
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Police say granny, 80, ran prostitution ring
Police made a surprising discovery when they busted the alleged madam of a prostitution ring called "August Playmates": The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Back to School
The Morning News: "In this installment, Elisabeth heads back to school with fresh eyes and provides a shoulder for Katâ€â€a friend in need, indeed."
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To-Done: "The underlying theme of my thoughts, the rails upon which this train rode, is my fundamental belief that technology should work for me, not the other way around."
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Routine airport security won't thwart jihadists, but it does inconvenience and endanger the rest of us.
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How Do the Paparazzi Sell Their Pics?
An introduction to the celebrity photo game.
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The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience.
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The female orgasm as evolution's happy accident.
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"RSS"...no..."XML"...no...uh...both?
"But then I noticed something about the sites using the "XML" icon: nearly all of them add some text right next to the icon, clarifying that by XML, they really mean RSS."
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How to appear in a hipster photoblog
myblogispoop: "Don't look directly at the camera, look off to the side as if to indicate that something really cool is happening. But please, don't be excited that something cool is happening."
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What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist
NYTimes: "Unlike eBay, which is dedicated to removing geographic obstacles to trading and defines "community" along national boundaries, Craigslist thinks and acts locally"
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A great list of free music in New York City this summer
How technology has transformed the sound of music.
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The White Stripes Change Their Spots
NYTimes: "On June 7, the White Stripes return with a thrilling new album, "Get Behind Me Satan" (Third Man/V2/BMG), that goes a long way toward dismantling the band's goofy mythology."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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5 Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting
If this were about three years ago Fear and Loathing would easily make this list.
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"Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."
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Digital photos can look great, but some labs won't print those that appear too professional
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Facts of Life, for Their Eyes Only
The history of fifth grade sex education videos.
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What happens when you fall in love with the dog and out of love with the woman?
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Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
"So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging."
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Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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So you wanna be a hipster . . .
Six requirements (of which you must meet five) to be a hipster
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Another "beginners guide to RSS article," this time from the Washington Post
If You Can Make It in Silicon Valley, You Can Make It . . . in Silicon Valley Again
More talk about the internet "reboom"
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No house on Fire Island or even a fire escape where you can do the 'cue? At these bars, weekends can still be about grilling and chilling.
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As part of an economics experiment they taught monkeys to use money. In time the monkeys learned to steal and even pay for sex.
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"But the minute you think you know, the minute you go - oh, yeah, we've been here before, no sense reinventing the wheel - you stop learning, stop questioning, and start believing in your own wisdom, you're dead."
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"ClockWork is a time management solution that allows you to easily track what you do during your day."
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Sasha Frere-Jones: "I will not write about any piece of music unless I have unlimited access to a portable version of it, renderered in either the CD, MP3 or vinyl format."
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The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
"It was free. It didn't involve the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own i
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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Why smart people defend bad ideas
scottberkun.com: "The primary point is that no amount of intelligence can help an individual who is diligently working at the wrong level of the problem."
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How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'
As a Friendship -- and the Watergate Story -- Developed, Source's Motives Remained a Mystery to Woodward
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"This is an extension to the way, WP handles categories, aimed at making the whole process more “taglike� and adding the ease of use and extensions we have come to expect in tags."
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A new book from industrial design expert Craig Vogel says companies must continually adapt their products if they are to compete.
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As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested . . . part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such things never happen
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Lawrence Lessig responds to the outpouring of support because the New York Magazine article on his abuse at the hands of teachers at Boychoir School.
A great visualization of albums that use samples and what they sample.
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Who knew perfect sideburns could be so easy?
This online tool generates an RSS 2.0 Feed from pretty well any web page
"Individually none of these signs should be deal breakers. However put a few of them together and it may be worth thinking twice about taking on that project."
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Piracy is Good? Part Two: The New Laws of Television
"The forces that cry "Piracy!" today will be congratulating themselves on their "sound business practices" tomorrow. There's money to be made; there is a viable economic model."
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An elite force takes on the dark side of computing
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Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto
This plugin for iPhoto 4 and 5 provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com
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Celebrating good writing on the web.
"Open up your cellphone, and approach their cubicle. Say into the phone, "hold on one second." Then tell your talkative friend exactly what you need to tell them."
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Rockin' cutouts on New York City Walk/Don't Walk signs
Ten interesting ideas in videogame design
Gamesblog: "So here’s the entire article, which looks into a few interesting ideas buzzing around the industry at the moment – ideas that promise to take gaming in intriguing new directions."
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An overview of Jeff Hawkins talk at D3 about the brain and AI.
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Wired: "Scientists are scanning brain activity in the hopes of catching sight of the physical mechanisms that determine whether you prefer Coke over Pepsi."
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'The Crazy Frog sound? That's my fault.'
The sight of a strange blue-grey frog with a helmet and goggles, revving up an imaginary motorbike while making an infuriating "ding ding dididing" noise, is familiar to much of the country. In fact to most of them it's too familiar... far, far too famili
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Nature.com: "A team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours."
Good and Bad Web Design Features
Go through the list of things that people--designers and non-designers--from around the country have cited as the things that make the difference between a well-designed and a poorly designed web page.
"If you control what is acceptable to say, to print, to show, you control the ability of people to form opinion, especially dissenting opinion."
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The Dark Side of Design Thinking
"Oftentimes, the user, with their idiosyncratic needs and wants, is seen as an obstacle by the designer seeking truth and beauty. Or that the user isn't clever enough to understand what they want, so they should shut up and appreciate what the designer, t
David Galbraith: "Blogebrity is an interesting experiment to see if you can create a viral meme where there is almost no information payload within the replicator by making it highly attractive to potentially contagious hosts, a 'headline only' meme."
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Stop thinking about the web in terms of pages that go from a server to a browser, and instead think of pages as collections of chunks that can each go to and from a server as needed.
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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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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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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."
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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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."
Two rock bands that want to be heard. (The Mountain Goats and The Hold Steady)
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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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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"FeedTagger allows anyone to search, browse or subscribe to regularly updated information, such as newspapers, blogs and websites."
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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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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"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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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't think anyone's laid claim to your phone number yet. Nice. Just ... just one second, let me get a pen." - John Bartlett
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Notes from talk--The Real Deal: How Young Adults Spend Their Time Online
Susan Mernit: "from RSS and SMS to peer-to-peer file sharing, find out how newspapers can tap into the new information networks, and the audience was about 40 newspaper editors and one online news producer."
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Online Shopping Makes New York a Cardboard Jungle
NYTimes: "After two years and two million deliveries (and $600,000 in parking tickets), FreshDirect has become the online grocery service that many New Yorkers have embraced"
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Meet Harriet Klausner, Amazon.com's most prolific reviewer.
Guardian: "What happens to the large-scale installations commissioned for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall when they are taken down? "
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Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule
People are starting to hack their Prius' . . . cool
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10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
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'LIFE CACHING': collecting, storing and displaying one's entire life, for private use, or for friends, family, even the entire world to peruse.
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Ten reasons why Mark Cuban is today's Long Tail hero
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Why don't authors put their indexes online? A book index is a perfect example of something that is much more efficient with a search function.
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An amazing interactive table that can play CDs without taking them out of the case
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Patent No. 6,004,596: Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
WSJ: "Smucker argues that it should be given exclusive rights for its method of sandwiching the jelly between peanut butter and bread."
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MSNBC: "Your Vulfix Shaving Brush should be allowed to air dry in a "Bristles Down-ward" position after use. Doing so will assure long brush life and proper bristle shape retention. Never enclose your brush in a sealed container while still damp."
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Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today: "The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity."
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Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders
"Whoomp! There It Continues to Be"
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Adidas - Hello Tomorrow (Video)
Spike Jonze dreams up a gorgeous new spot for Adidas.
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Does tagging provide discernable benefits when individuals tag their content for personal use only?
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Great quotes of McLuhan
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Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
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Using tablet PC to take notes using mind maps
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Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too Connected?
Cory Doctorow's transcript of James Surowicki's ETECH presentation on Wisdom of Crowds
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A tour of the oldest bars in New York City
SMS, E-mail Announce Pope's Death
Wired: "It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages and e-mail so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news."
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What's Your Brand Mantra?: "So if a monologue is one person talking, and dialogue is two people talking, what's a multilogue?"
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Ten Ways to Relax and Reduce Stress
The following are some wonderful ways to reduce anxiety, agitation and stress and promote relaxation, calm and peace within yourself.
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