Monthly Archives: January 2007

Daily Bookmarks

January 26, 2007 – 12:45 am

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-25

iconophobia » inlineRSS
A sensible RSS fetcher
Metakine - DVDRemaster - DVD Backup or Personal Copy for Mac OS X

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Irony of the day

January 25, 2007 – 10:39 pm

In an ever-cluttered advertising world, On-egg Messaging has the ability to reach the right target at the right time. — EggFusion, who aims to place advertising on your eggs, bemoans the pervasiveness of advertising.

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Twitter is the new finger

January 24, 2007 – 10:41 pm

Back in the day, we used to leave a small file named .plan in our Unix home directories, which others could read over port 79 with the finger command. It was a useful for quick status updates, to find out what people were working on (or where they were off to) without pestering them. […]

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Daily Bookmarks

January 24, 2007 – 12:45 am

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-23

The iPhone User Experience: A First Look
Tog loves the iPhone UI and has the same gripes I do (no GPS, no inbox aggregation)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: You could call iPhone perfect
Andy Ihnatko in an unusual display of fanboyhood.

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Design fanboy

January 23, 2007 – 9:23 pm

Besides being a very happy AAPL investor, I’ve been accurately identified as one of [them]… those Apple fanboys that narrow our focus away from the company’s competition, reading MacRumors rather than /..
What’s frustrating is how the Apple fanboy label is used to dismiss my viewpoint, implying that my judgement is meritless, clouded by the reality […]

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Daily Bookmarks

January 23, 2007 – 12:45 am

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-22

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Easily one of the most comprehensive sources of Christian history. Despite some clear biases, the factual references are sound and the articles informative.

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QOTD

January 22, 2007 – 10:18 pm

Hate, unfortunately is what substitutes for political discourse these days. - Diane Meyer

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Aggregating myself

January 21, 2007 – 11:19 am

Apologies to readers subscribed via RSS or email (all 33 of you) for any spam recently with posts entitled “Daily Bookmarks”. I accidently live-tested a new feature I’ve hacked together, where a nightly process will automatically post the bookmarks I’ve saved during the day as a blog post.
I hope to offer a feed that […]

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Fearless

January 20, 2007 – 12:33 pm

In July of 1995, I finally got around to registering some domain names for myself. I didn’t even have my own servers, but I saw a sort of land grab taking shape and wanted to homestead. Among others, I grabbed phobia.com, merely because I thought hostnames like agora.phobia.com for mail services and arachne.phobia.com […]

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There’s always one

January 19, 2007 – 6:28 pm

Why must every group have someone who just has to be a contrary asshole?
I don’t mean playing devil’s advocate. Or even being skeptical and working against consensus until every detail has been worked out. A healthy fear of groupthink is valuable.
I mean the guy that has to take an unjustified position of authority […]

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