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This is a GREAT idea. Kevin Smith just rocks.
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“PS six years ago, at Yahoo, Jerry Yang caught me wearing a suit while he was giving a tour to a bunch of hotshot visitors. He sent me home.”(tags: anecdotes)
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“Having competitive products in your AdSense ads actually helps you, not hurts you.”
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Thank God. I’d prefer ANY alternative to Paypal, to be honest.
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“The user is never wrong because experience is experience, not fact.”
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This is WONDERFUL. And I want that keyboard!(tags: spam spambaiting)
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Just in case extra reasons were needed to equate “Conservatives” with “evil”
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This sounds seriously cool. Probably more broadly applicable than just the military as well.
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Lesson: security has to be easy, usable and built in. Optional security is an oxymoron.
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if just the simple desire to be able to see friend’s and families’ photos in Flickr RSS feeds stimulated the Flickr team (who we all know design shit-hot stuff) to solve the problem of secure syndication?
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Interesting thoughts about relevant advertising actually increasing the effectiveness of a site.
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“When they came for the Java developers, I was silent, for I was not a Java developer.”
LOL!
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“At work we’ve kind of renamed that command. When spoken it comes out something like “arr-em-dash-arr-star-hands-off-keyboard-stop-and-think” :)”
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“But then there was the fist-fight at the greenmarket about the sausage that Meg suspected was not humanely made because the woman selling it did not know the names of the pigs that supplied the meat.”
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“Why do we need computers to help us with this?”
This is a test post. I’m in the middle of upgrading to v2 of Wordpress and also moving my blog to a new host, so need a way of differentiating between the old site and new site! Apologies if this shows up in the RSS feed.
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Best. Braveheart. Spoof. Ever!
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Barney’s head on a silver platter. No, really.
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The geek photography of squirrels trend continues
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“Good design isn’t about pretty or ugly. It’s not even about usability or intuitive interaction. Good design solves problems. The airlines prove that even the best design techniques are worthless if designers don’t have access to the root of the problems”
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“With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths.”
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How cool is this?? Go CC guys, go!
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Second post in two days from T that is just so poignant. I don’t understand how people can wish this on gay families. And I am so (selfishly) glad that in the UK Civil Partnership == marriage
I’ve just had my second laptop hard-drive die on me in about 6 months. After much hassle, I am finally back with access to MOST of my data (down to a nice little auto-incremental backup tool I use).
The only thing that went smoothly was restoring Firefox — those guys really are getting ahead of the industry in terms of install/reinstall usability now. I literally just downloaded the install, ran it, used MozBackup to restore my profile (which I had rushed to save as soon as the laptop starting making grinding noises…) and now I’m back. With all my (many thousands of) bookmarks, saved logins and even my plugins loaded for me. No effort whatsoever.
It got me thinking though — lots of people get very worried about their stuff being hosted. I’ve heard people who object to Flickr because “the servers might go down and I’d lose EVERYTHING!”. I suppose they have a point, especially when their data is being encrypted away from them (not the case with Flickr, but there are some offenders).
The other side of the argument is this though: do you really think that your hardware and backup regimen is BETTER than that of the company you are concerned about?
When my harddrive started making sounds like it was trying to grind sand into powder, I was suddenly very happy that so much of my life was online. The really important bookmarks? Largely on delicious and this blog. The photos? Flickr. OK, so my document management is a little haphazard — I imagine I can fix that.
I’m quite enjoying relying on other people to keep systems up and running, to make sure backups are happening of my stuff on the web. They seem to be a lot better at it than I want to have to be 
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I wonder how many of these kids are just really smart because their mothers BELIEVED they would be. Kind of like an advanced placebo effect — expect your child to be a genius, give them more opportunities to excel, challenges etc and voila!
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“Fear is a huge barrier, no matter what you’re selling.”
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“Buy organic fruit. Trust me on this. I’m the expert here; you’re the desperate fool who needs to surf the Internet to figure out how to put fucking fruit into a fucking bowl.”
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FanTASTIC graffiti!
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“Only a fifth of those with handwriting policies taught children ways of increasing their speed, which could affect their future performance in exams.”
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This will be SO cool if it works
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I absolutely LOVE this tale of a modern stocks and rotten fruit situation — good on them for naming and shaming and hopefully getting somewhere.
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Both a wonderful example of social engineering and some real food for thought in how we approach security — surely working against natural instinct can’t be clever?
We’ve just been watching Have I Got News for You and they just completely left the normal show structure by the wayside because they got caught up making Pot Noodle jokes.
I didn’t think that sort of thing COULD be funny for 20 minutes … but it was!
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Thought it was a bit random for Dave to be blogging about gender issues — but turns out he doesn’t mean it in quite the same sense I normally expect
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“Stewart: I disagree, I think it’s a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish.”
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“More to the point, I am put off to have such a clear message from Yahoo, such a strong statement that “we own your name — not you.”"
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I love the hilarious accuracy of this complaint about Open Source installers — The GIMP is particularly shit at this, I do agree
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“I can’t believe you want to excommunicate my daisies.”
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“Annual Rock Paper Scissors Tournament” — I can’t believe that this actually exists!! Good for Kevin and Sergio…
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Gapminder is an absolutely AMAZING tool. Some really scary statistics in there as well — especially for life expectancy (45 in SA vs 79 in UK)
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Cool idea
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“South Africa has plans to phase out certain types of incandescent bulbs and replace them with more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.”
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Wonderful visualisations of how people who write in are feeling — I love the interaction of the graphs/representations and the specific quotes/anecdotes/feelings
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Some great tips from Jeremy — I love his current series explaining how he’s lost all the weight
After spending a few days deliberating between using Rails and Django for my wedding site, I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall.
However easy it would be to install all the required bits and bobs on one of my Linux boxes I have kicking around the house, I really prefer NOT to have any of them running 24/7 or accessible from the outside world. So I started looking at which framework I’d be able to run on my hosting. Unfortunately, neither seems possible.
So much for that then. Time for a new host at some point, I think, (especially as Neathosting unfortunately seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth!) but can’t really be bothered for what I’m trying to do at the moment. Any recommendations for great hosts that can support Rails/Django, anyone?
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I have to admit, accidentally beautiful double exposures are something I really miss in this new digital camera age…
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I love the idea of tagging materials so that you can automatically recycle them once you’re done. Brilliant!
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This list of unintentionally gay 80s music videos is just HILARIOUS. We often sit watching telly and find ads like these — they’ve tried hard to make it macho and hit it just slightly wrong…
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“Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.”
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“I now believe that almost all marketing decisions are first and foremost made without the marketplace in mind.”
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I agree with Elaine — always nice to realise you’re ahead of the game. Nice links to accessibility, html and css knowledge level articles.
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I had hoped this would happen — a lesbian couple with a full marriage are challenging the fact that they are only offered a Civil Partnership when moving to the UK. Hopefully they will succeed and we’ll have a quiet change to marriage law too.
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With 20 million views already I doubt this needs my link, but it IS hilarious!
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“The 84th problem when you believe that you’re the only person that has 83 problems. This is truly the greatest problem.”
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This post from Rich reminded me why I loved Physics so much … and really miss knowing anything about it anymore. These theories talk of the way the Universe WORKS. What could be more important than that?
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“Kenya’s president has announced that fees will be removed for anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), which combat the effects of Aids.”
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This story is bollocks. Getting a NI number even as a British citizen was a huge freaking pain in the ass. Any journalist who thinks it is too easy should try it themselves!!
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I particularly like that they have given the password needed in the article, rather than just covering the story
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I love my mum — she warned me about taking long-term high dose muscle relaxants long before the BBC covered it
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“The power of the short tail” — or, how averages can really really lie
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Has Zeldman been spammed on his SITE? Either there’s an irony here I’m not seeing or something is seriously wrong…
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This is SO cute. via Simon
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Interesting reading — a list of opportunities that this VC company let pass by…
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Someone has patented the cordless jumprope. No Really.
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“Marketing campaigns are frequently crippled by managers who are sure that they know “it” when they see it–and this isn’t it. Some of my favorite stories are the ones about all the naysayers who tried to kill the stuff that ends up being great. They just
