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Google Doctype
via Simon Willison's Weblog by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Google Doctype. So now we know what Mark Pilgrim’s been doing at Google... heading up a project to create an encyclopaedia of web development. The JavaScript UI for browsing it is a bit weird (though you do at least get real pages if you disable JavaScript in your browser).
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SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
via RSSmeme | Stories Published 48 Hours Ago With At Least 10 Shares by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
... because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope t...
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Justice Stress II
via Fubiz™ by Fubiz on May 14, 2008
Après la découverte du vidéoclip en exclusivité sur Fubiz début mai, l'article à suscité plus de 500 commentaires de votre part. Dans la suite, le communiqué officiel du groupe en réaction à la polémique.Le duo du groupe Justice vient de publier le communiqué suivant :La vidéo de STRESS est née d’une idée : offrir un clip indiffusable en télé à un titre indiffusable en...
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RSSMeme ‘OverHauled’, Releases API
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on May 11, 2008
... in seeking links to stories whose contextual languages they can understand and which are aggregated as shared items in Google Reader. And today we hear from the creator of RSSmeme, Benjamin Golub, that the service has received yet more backend attention in the past few days.According to Golub, the framework of RSSmeme has been “completely overhauled,” a process which has resulted in the...
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released (42)
via RSSmeme by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).See our previous coverage here and here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause...
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High Times, un magazine dédié à la culture… de cannabis
via Rue89 | Votre révolution de l'info by Armelle Vincent on May 13, 2008
Aux Etats-Unis, on trouve des magazines pour tous les hobbies, tous les métiers, tous les sports. Pensez à un passe-temps quelconque et vous pouvez être sûr de dénicher la revue spécialisée correspondante. Je ne m’attendais quand même pas, il y a quelques années, à découvrir l’existence d’un mensuel encourageant sans retenue la culture de marijuanaen lire plus
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Tell Me About RSSmeme
via scribkin by J. Phil on May 12, 2008
This isn’t going to be any run-of-the-mill review from me. Why? Because the application I am going to review is different in several substantial ways:It isn’t a piece of software you install on your PCIt isn’t a web application like Gmail or YouTubeIt really isn’t exactly meant to be a destination page like My Yahoo! or iGoogleWhat is RSSmeme?So, given all these things that RSSmeme is...
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Increase Font Size in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 07, 2008
Google Reader added an option to increase/decrease font size for all the posts: press = to magnify text and - to decrease its size. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn't save your preference, so the next time you open it you'll see the original font size.While most browsers include a zoom feature (Opera, IE7, Firefox 3) or an option to increase the font size, Google Reader applies the new...
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Newsflash! Firmware 2.0 hints suggest Apple might be working on a 3G iPhone
via RSSmeme | Stories Published 48 Hours Ago With At Least 10 Shares by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
... the faster service "decreases battery life." Gotta pay to play, as they say. The ability to disable 3G service in favor of improved standby performance is a pretty common one in modern phones, so we're not surprised to see it here -- just a little disappointed that Apple hasn't incorporated enough fairy dust to magically make the problem go away.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Trailer: X-Files, I Want to Believe
via LE DEBUGGER's blog by Mox Folder on May 12, 2008
Il était attendu ce trailer du nouveau film dérivé de la série X-Files... même s'il faut bien admettre personne ne l'attendait ce film. En fait j'ai dit qu'il était attendu parce que ça fait un peu pus de 5 heures que j'ai pris connaissance du compte à rebours sur la page officielle du film et que j'attends. Gossip Girl et Desperate Housewives m'auront aidé à...
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