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Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

“All these sites start with a nucleus of dedicated people. Then as the gawkers join in you see a dilution. People who were there originally feel alienated and feel that the thing they helped created is being perverted.”

(tags: slashdot digg technology)

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links for 2008-01-30

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Depenguinator, version 2.0

A script to turn a Linux box in to a FreeBSD box via Alex.

(tags: freebsd linux sysadmin tool toread admin)
MacThemes / [Growl] iPhonesque â€” ala the dialog box on iPhone

(tags: growl mac theme iphone osx themes)
Arc’s Out

The problem with eating your own dog food some times is that eventually you may believe your own crap…

(tags: arc lisp programming paulgraham scheme)

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links for 2008-01-29

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

James Duncan Davidson > Restoring from Time Machine

(tags: mac osx timemachine leopard apple backup)

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links for 2008-01-26

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Mike Davidson - A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras

(tags: photography camera dslr guide tips digital slr)
How To: Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required

This doesn’t appeal to me but it probably does to someone.

(tags: mac hackintosh osx howto leopard osx86 install)
geobloggers Â» The overdue Places post II - Prototyping Iconicness

Interesting notes and design ideas that went in to the creation of Flickr Places. I especially like the bacon example used.

(tags: flickr geotagging maps places geo geocoding interestingness)

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links for 2008-01-25

Friday, January 25th, 2008

NITF: Specifications

NITF validators for XSD and DTD.

(tags: nitf xml xsd dtd)
XMLMate :: XML/DTD/XSD/RNG/Schematron/XInclude/XPath Plug-In for TextMate

“Check XML and XHTML documents for Well-Formedness and Validity while editing them in TextMate…”

(tags: textmate xml plugin)
Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu Â« Ubuntu Blog

I’m impressed with Ubuntu and I’m using it as my primary desktop OS at home. I’m impressed with everything but the fonts which have a lot to be desired. Here’s how to fix that.

(tags: ubuntu fonts vista linux howto)
Django, Comet and IRC client

Django IRC chat bot…

(tags: django irc comet python chat)

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links for 2008-01-24

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.

Today they launched.

(tags: news local journalism hyperlocal media startup)
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Monster Muck Mashup - Mass Video Conversion Using AWS

I’ve looked this up at least a dozen times so far.

(tags: amazon s3 ec2 video python sqs)
~jk flv streaming

Good start on some research for later use.

(tags: lighttpd streaming flv flash video howto)

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links for 2008-01-23

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

python-nose - Google Code

(tags: python framework development testing test unittest)
Django People

(tags: django python social googlemaps community)
Back to the Future timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is for the many Back to the Future fans that I’m friends with. You know who you are…

(tags: timeline)

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links for 2008-01-19

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

AirMail: Manila envelope laptop sleeve for MacBook Air

How many people will actually try to order this…

(tags: mac apple macbookair macbook design sleeve accessory air envelope)

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links for 2008-01-17

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The Escapist : Zero Punctuation

This seems to be a weekly game review which is funny.

(tags: games reviews funny video blog)

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links for 2008-01-11

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Type Reference - puppet - Trac

(tags: configuration reference sysadmin tools puppet)

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