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  • Get Rich or Die Tryin’

    New business model. Give us all your money Originally from MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon reBlogged by micah on Jun 9, 2006, 4:11PM

  • Danger Doom The Occult Hymn EP available free from Adultswim.com

    Go listen to this, laugh. Danger Doom “The Occult Hymn” EP available free from Adultswim.com [More Inside] but that is pretty much it. Originally from MetaFilter by ND¢ reBlogged by micah to music humor on Jun 9, 2006, 11:16AM

  • Visual Wordnet

    This looks fun. Kyle Scholz has created a Visual Wordnet based on his Force Directed Graph engine written in JavaScript. Force Directed Graphs are self-organizing, visually appealing tools for representing relational data. The look is organic, because algorithms simulate the way charged particles arrange in space. They work great in user interfaces because the user…

  • Technorati testing microformats search and “Pingerati”

    Tools to aggregate content published in a decentralized manner are king. Filed under: Blogging, Web servicesOver at the Technorati Weblog, Tantek Çelik has announced two new products, Microformats Search and Pingerati. In case you’re not familiar, microformats are small bits of XML that can be used to describe things like events, product reviews, or contacts…

  • Red Hat ships open source MySpace++ clone

    Red Hat is looking at Social Networking as desktop environment level software, which is interesting. I’m not that excited about that part, though. This also involves a Java/Hibernate/JBoss Open Source social networking server, which is meant to be extesnible and horizontally scalable and/or clusterable. This could be an interesting platform for neat little bits of…

  • Then You Might Actually Stay Upright

    Girl in bathroom: Well, my friends live out here, but I’m from Manhattan, so I asked them what I should wear and they said this place was really casual. So I asked if I could at least wear heels..and they said no…but I can’t drink in sneakers! –Astoria Beer Garden Overheard by: melissa <!– begin(Yahoo…

  • time-based taglines

    This Yahoo Research project is the sort of tool they use to teach time travelers and aliens like Mike Myers and Mila Jovovich about history. This begs the question: if Yahoo Research is working on products for time travelers and aliens, is that getting too far out ahead of the market? a time-based data visualization…

  • Reblog 2.0 Beta 1 released

    It took a little bit of poking around in the forum archives, and finally setting REBLOG_REFEED_ROOT_PATH in my config.xml, but my refeed install now seems to be working. A fresh update to Reblog 2.0 has been released. Be first on your block to install it from http://reblog.org/#download.This release includes a raft of enhancements, including better…

  • Reno January ’06

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