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September 30, 2005
Fiona's first blog post (while banging on my keyboard)
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Posted by 06:03 PM
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(you gotta do the chewbacca yell as you look at it)
Posted by 01:11 AM
September 29, 2005
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When I moved to Oregon, I had pretty much the exact same experience -- u-haul's website doesn't remotely resemble the reality of their local offices
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 28, 2005
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the archives are great -- my new favorite web comic
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automated way to pull your photos off flickr -- lets you use flickr as an offsite hard drive for photos
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Santorum and Accuweather, still gaming the system for their own benefit
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 27, 2005
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monorail stapler!
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 26, 2005
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I can get behind this.
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Nothing says "beat me up and take my candy please" like this
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wow. just...wow.
Posted by 01:10 AM
September 25, 2005
Slashdot PT Cruiser on Highway 24, pt. 3
(Slashdot PT Cruiser on Highway 24, pt. 3, originally uploaded by allaboutgeorge)
Maybe someday someone will catch the MetaFilter Yugo on the freeway when it's out of the shop (custom license plate: JRUN ERR)
Posted by 02:27 PM
September 23, 2005
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Give yourself nightmares for life by owning this
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 22, 2005
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Awesome design
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heh
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 21, 2005
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Great answer explaining modern dance and pointing out a few good touring dance companies.
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It's weird to watch the same community problems crop up in every new community
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Guess what dumbasses: searchability inside books SELLS MORE BOOKS
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 20, 2005
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experimentation reveals many things
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 19, 2005
Shark jumping pirates
It's Talk Like A Pirate Day but I have no enthusiasm for it anymore. After several years, pirates just aren't that funny anymore. I think they ran their course.
Now zombies on the other hand, now you're talking. As of summer 2005, zombies are the new pirates. Someone needs to start a "Eat Brains Like a Zombie Day" to replace this pirate one. A passing of the meme torch, if you will.
Posted by 10:57 AM | Comments (8)
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Kenyan blogosphere
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Reminder to self: this is the most pointless, little-used word in the English language
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Fine work. I wish these guys were local.
Posted by 01:11 AM
September 18, 2005
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How to run hidden cabling. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find pictures of these installations
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in-wall iPod mounts. Could look pretty sweet near a stereo setup
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 17, 2005
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awesome.
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This looks like a bad Super Bowl halftime show, circa 1978
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handy thing to have around, runs in java
Posted by 01:15 AM
September 15, 2005
Talk about bumcakes, my girl's got 'em
Derek's post about robust footers at the ends of pages highlights a brilliant change he recently made during a site redesign. As peterme noted last year, Flickr was one of the first sites to use this seemingly forgotten space for useful things (in flickr's case, a sitemap, in derek's a sorta sitemap/intro to his other projects).
It's weird to think we've all been building sites for 10+ years and "putting useful stuff at the end of a page" is a breakthrough but it really does feel like the first new layout idea in quite some time. I've toyed with the idea of it on the Creative Commons site since I saw the flickr implementation, but I think I'm going to test it out on my personal sites first.
Posted by 10:31 AM
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I heard about this story from the other end.
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Can't wait to see how this works. Will the airport express get s-video out?
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Kurt Vonnegut's list of LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 14, 2005
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new ajaxy online board game
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Awesome, simple way to transport tunes: a USB key
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So long Technorati, been nice knowing you...
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FEMA's mail server is non-existent. Real fine organization you got there.
Posted by 01:15 AM
September 13, 2005
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It looks like the dog is really enjoying it.
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sweet! I can't believe I missed this.
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 11, 2005
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a visual timeline
Posted by 01:12 AM
September 10, 2005
Incredible
This slideshow (via mefi) is one of the most amazing accounts I've seen of the hurricane, before, during, and after. It contains photos from familiar landmarks and areas of the city and shows pretty clearly why people that stayed behind didn't think it was going to be that bad, and as it progressed, just how bad it would get. When the story gets to the lines awaiting buses you can feel the helplessness of the people left behind.
Looking at these photos knowing what we know now, I can't help but remember looking through a 9/11/2001 set of photographer's photos that told a similar story of a major event: calm followed by surprise and confusion and later untold devistation.
Nothing I've seen on TV or online comes close to the complete story this gallery of images gives. It's worth sitting through every caption and following along. Chilling stuff.
Posted by 04:11 AM
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peanuts and the nuts that love them
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 09, 2005
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"No one has even seen a copy of the bill"
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It's like hiring Jesus to help out at your soup kitchen.
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 08, 2005
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saving for later
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holy crap, Kepler's Bookstore went out of business?!
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my Flag Day got picked up by Blogger -- cool.
Posted by 01:14 AM
September 07, 2005
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sweet.
Posted by 01:14 AM
September 06, 2005
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If you ever needed to order book checkout cards/pockets for your own books at home
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Incredible set of photos from someone working as a volunteer at the Astrodome
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huh, Saigon is a real rapper/actor.
Posted by 01:14 AM
September 04, 2005
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ecodorky looking, but extremely simple and clever product
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Post a bad review of a new car, get fired from the newspaper that likely receives lots of advertising from same car company
Posted by 01:14 AM
September 03, 2005
Another way to help
I've watched a week of non-stop Katrina news and I'm still in a daze at what has happened. There's nothing to say really.
Aside from giving to the Red Cross, Modest Needs is another great charity doing everything it can to help those in the wake of this disaster, and in a very simple and direct way. Do pitch in over there if you can.
Posted by 03:14 PM
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a FEMA timeline
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"Additional reporting for this story was provided by Chuck Jones."
Posted by 01:14 AM
September 02, 2005
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flag day is apparently next saturday, pass it on
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Whoa, a bike racer is suspended from a race series due to comments on the promoter's site
Posted by 01:13 AM
September 01, 2005
Flag day
Someone should organize an international blogspot flagging day (all about flagging blogspot sites). We could pick a day, say, a saturday in September, then collectively cruise blogspot through the "next blog" button, flagging all the spam blogs that contain 10 links to a single site in every post, loaded up with keywords.
I've been spending a futile 30 minutes each night flagging spamblogs this week, and last night I hit a site I had previously flagged days earlier, and was kind of dismayed to see it still around clogging blogspot and google. I bet a movement of bloggers flagging obvious abuses at blogspot would work just like a "clean up your local park" day might.
Posted by 09:53 AM | Comments (11)
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awesome new service that searches all code samples from books on programming languages.
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Competitive poker and competitive cycling: many similarities
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That's some compassionate salesfolks you got there at Globat.
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The dooce interview
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Someone forgot to enter their TEMPLATE TITLE into their spamblog software
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Remember embedded fonts in Netscape 4? Well, they're going away forever next week.
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globalization through the use of border:none;
Posted by 01:17 AM