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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Firm addresses concerns that there are severe limits on how patents it's unfettering in conjunction with open-source Solaris can be used. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Cory Doctorow:... Pablos sez, "Thanks in part to an early mention on Boing Boing, the first ever Shmoocon is sold out. Starting Friday is our attempt to have an East Coast security and hacker conference without the marketing crap but with a heavy emphasis on the geek projects that inspire us. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Dell has released a 24 MB ROM upgrade for its x50/x50v range of handhels with fixes in many drivers, including faster 2D/3D performance and read-from-memory-cards performance. The x50v has been greeted as the most full-featured PDA of its class, selling for less than $420 and including a 624 Mhz CPU, 16 MB Intel 3D card (!), gorgeous 640x480 3.7" |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Mark Frauenfelder:... There's still time to contribute a review to the second issue of MAKE, a technology project magazine I'm editing. ... Is there some gadget, tool, web site, newsletter, instructional video, book, magazine, CD-ROM, or instrument you already own and love? |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Neville Hobson, writing at webpronews.com, points to Christopher Carfi's The Social Customer Manifesto, and The Ever-Shrinking, Ever-Growing Business Blogosphere:
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- Dullbert is the first in a 12-part series of original rip-off cartoons, Fantasy Panels, proudly presented by The Daily Ripper. New cartoons will be posted each Tuesday (Australian time). |
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- I put off starting a blog for a long time because I thought it would be hard. I thought it would be technical. I thought I'd have to install scripts and tear my hair out getting them to work. At that point, most of what I'd read about blogs and RSS was just so much geek-speak. Was I ever wrong! |
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- Have you ever noticed how much Greenspan looks like Zoidberg? (Greenspan's not as smart though) Federal Reserve Open Market Operations The Fed's Open Market Operations desk performed 1 repurchase operation last night:a $8.25billion, weekend repurchase with $8.25billion in T-backed collateral . |
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- In the case of most bands, it seems a cop-out for a reviewer to begin a discussion by referring to such trivial matters as the titles of songs and albums, or lyrics, before any discussion of the fundamental matter of... |
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- European Software Patent Update at LWN Adhoc writes "LWN has a nice clear summary of the current patent situation in... |
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- http://harleytreesurg:gina@www agentlemanschoice. com/members/ http://374608762: |
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- By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to links. When added to links in comment tags, the search engines will ignore them. |
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- A new ad campaign compares an SUV to a bucking Bronco. The point is not to sell sport utility vehicles, but to encourage people to be safe when driving them. |
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- Bertrand Russell was a mathematician, philosopher, logician, and rationalist. Here for your perusal is my favorite essay of his, as presented in a talk to the National Secular Society in England. It may make you happy or enraged, depending on your outlook, but I hope above all it will make you think. |
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- Mark Frauenfelder:... There's still time to contribute a review to the second issue of MAKE, a technology project magazine I'm editing. ... Is there some gadget, tool, web site, newsletter, instructional video, book, magazine, CD-ROM, or instrument you already own and love? Then write about it for MAKE. |
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- Cory Doctorow:... Pablos sez, "Thanks in part to an early mention on Boing Boing, the first ever Shmoocon is sold out. Starting Friday is our attempt to have an East Coast security and hacker conference without the marketing crap but with a heavy emphasis on the geek projects that inspire us. The last 5 passes are being auctioned on eBay and their entire proceeds will be donated to the EFF."... |
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- Firm addresses concerns that there are severe limits on how patents it's unfettering in conjunction with open-source Solaris can be used. |
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- Don't tell. We have new wizards... |
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- Dell has released a 24 MB ROM upgrade for its x50/x50v range of handhels with fixes in many drivers, including faster 2D/3D performance and read-from-memory-cards performance. The x50v has been greeted as the most full-featured PDA of its class, selling for less than $420 and including a 624 Mhz CPU, 16 MB Intel 3D card (!), gorgeous 640x480 3.7" screen, CF and SD slots, 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM, WiFi+Bluetooth and more. |
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- (January 31, 2005 03:48 PM, by Arnold Kling) Brad DeLong proposes 1. Shift responsibility for maintaining actuarial balance off of the Congress and onto the Social Security Administration--have... |
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Gawker Mad (Jan 31 2005 22:48 GMT) - Gawker's breaking out with some nice newness. Jalopnik Lifehacker Gridskipper I'd better get off my ass and start flowing da crunk (see American Idol Crunk Master) and making some ends.... |
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- It's been three days since i looked at porn. It's been 20 hours since my last coffee. Awesome they've combined the two things I hate most in the world. Bollywood and Jane Austen. I could definitely see myself scratching my... |
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- Imagine Wealth - Secrets of Abundance Understanding Your Subconscious Mind Part IV [[ This is a content summary only. Visit imaginewealth.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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- Imagine Wealth - Secrets of Abundance Understanding Your Subconscious Mind Part IV In the first article about understanding the subconscious mind, we talked about two scientific discoveries proving that the mind creates reality. However, the one we are talking about today was so revolutionary that it created a whole new branch of science. And to this day, is still not fully understood. It's |
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- Building niche sites is all the rage these days. The basic strategy is very simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. |
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- That famed UK pop-gossip/tittle-tattle site Holy Moly talks to MediaGuardian. And reveals throughout that rather than being some kind of seedy teenager trapped in the toilets of Media Whorehouse Central, he is in fact a married 30-something Northerner who wants to "turn the site into a successful business model". Any donations you make to the site, goes to him to buy more fashionable clothes. Call me insane and hippy-esque, but it's disgraceful. I do wish people would stop seeing the Internet through nothing but green-paper-tinted glasses. |
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- One of the highlights of attending SXSW 2004 was going to a very entertaining blogging panel. Amongst the panellists was a very funny Justin Hall, who struck me as being a unique blend of someone who could be entertaining, funny, *and* knowledgable at the same time. In other words, someone I could aspire to liking, if I had heard of him before that day. Then amongst the morass of weblinks that get thrown at everyone all the time, I forgot to check out his website. (This is before I discovered Bloglines and the point of RSS feeds - to help you catch up on your web reading! |
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- On the Chris Moyles radio show this morning, the "gang" riffed on that classic early-90s two-albums-wonder Martika, and played a Japanese version of Love ... Thy Will Be Done. And howled at Martika singing Japanese lyrics with an English chorus, as if this was typical of the oddity of Japan. Except ... I'm pretty much certain that outside of English-speaking countries, an awful lot of the native pop does incorporate English and other multiple languages into songs. |
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- Oh for heavens' sake. BBC NEWS | Blogging 'a paedophile's dream' says a forensic psychologist adviser to the Scottish parliament. What next? Banning pens and paper on the grounds that if children write things, it might find its way over to that nasty child catcher? How on earth did paedophiles become such a bogeyman in today's society? |
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- It's the end of the world ... so it's time for Snow Patrol to do the video to that rather fabby song, Chocolate. They say it's all about madness, but I beg to differ. Certainly, it's much better than Ultravox's video on the same theme, with the added poignancy of some 9/11-esque imagery. Also pays "homage" (ie it rips off) to Don McKellar's great film Last Night. |
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- "If you want a working definition of a producer's job, it is persuading people to do things they don't want to do. And which are not in their own best interests." - Jeremy Paxman. So right. |
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- Since I spent 14 hours yesterday mostly monitoring/watching the Tsunami Relief Concert to provide on-demand broadband video clips (with my colleagues of course), I thought I might as well give my knee-jerk reactions of the artistes involved. Although of course I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE INSTEAD, if it wasn't for my cursed multi-skilling abilities. Rant to come. Katharine Jenkins - nice voice, but the songs seemed a bit too bland and were too anthemic at this early stage in the proceedings. Of course, at one point I shouted across the office: |
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- Well, it was a 14-hour workday producing on-demand broadband video clips from the Tsunami Relief Concert - and aside from the fact I've still got a glowing wristband on that would have allowed me backstage access throughout the entire gig and I had to babysit a video encoder instead - it was good fulfilling fun. Pumping out 8 hours of video content, checking it for swearing gives one a huge sense of achievement. Although not being able to spot when Badly Drawn Boy repeats a song twice is not one of my music appreciation highlights. |
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- tsunami concert goers start arriving Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Like ants to a sugar cube on a picnic. And just when it gets interesting, and the music starts pumping out the stadium speakers, I have to go to the office to pump out 8 hours of broadband-quality on-demand video. Which will be fun, but not as fun as working backstage. |
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- an empty millennium stadium Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Up from the sixth floor, just waiting... and waiting... |
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