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25 Oct, 2007

links for 2007-10-25

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Linux

Verisign to Profit from Rootserver Data? by Domain Name News

Very interesting way of dealing with domain tasting, sell a view of your server logs instead as a form of pre-tasting to see if a domain is worth having. Danger is, next step could be to charge a premium for the most visited unregistered domain names.

(tags: domain domains names registry)

Germany - Books - Price Fixing - New York Times

Great Article about how the German book market works, and how strict Government control on pricing creates a much wider market for books.

(tags: books nyc newyorktimes)
Home - OpenSearch

Home of the OpenSearch standard

(tags: search opensearch standards web XML Atom RSS)

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Graeme Hunter: Same here, GMail suits me a lot more. I do need to get round to backing up GMail exactly as you do, have been putting it off for a little while solely
Ash Matadeen: Yes, not a big Mail.app user either. I much prefer GMail's web interface. But I load up Mail.app occasionally just to have a backup copy of my messa
Graeme Hunter: Excellent, thank you very much for that. I don't use the Mail.app normally, so I didn't think of looking there, and I couldn't see it on Spotlight. Th

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- dafont.com
  
  Nicely-laid out site with font downloads, including many free ones.
  
  (tags: fonts freefonts design typography)
- DonkDJ
  
  Turn any song into an instant Donk anthem. Or alternatively a bleep-laden nightmare. Your call.
  
  (tags: musicremix music remix donk putadonkonit methodologiesofdonkapplication)
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- GeekTool: Put News On Your Desktop With GeekTool
  
  Embed output from a shell script (in this case to grab a news feed) directly into your OSX desktop
  
  (tags: mac osx software apps applications commandline shell geektool)
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- Marathi style Lamb shank by Atul Kochhar
  
  Marathi-style Lamb Shanks recipe
  
  (tags: indianfood indian recipies lamb)
- AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book
  
  Sync Facebook with your OSX Address book
  
  (tags: macosxsoftware software facebook)
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- 2600Online.com - Adventure - Online Atari Games - 2600 Games - Pac-Man - Ms. Pac-Man - Berzerk - Yars Revenge - Classic Games - VCS
  
  Online versions of classic Atari games
  
  (tags: atarigames)
- USB Kubuntu 8.10 Install via USB Creator | USB Pen Drive Linux
  
  How to set up your usb drive as a bootable device
  
  (tags: linuxusb)
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- Do You Hate Helvetica? | The Design O'Blog
  
  Interesting interview with a designer who hates the font Helvetica
  
  (tags: fonts typography hatred)
- Hackszine.com: Train your iPhone's dictionary
  
  How to train your iPhone to learn new words, a nice simple trick.
  
  (tags: iphonetips iphone tips hacks)
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- Human Giant
  
  MTV Comedy Sketch Show.
  
  (tags: comedyshows sketch show tv mtv)
- Dead-Frog - A Comedy Blog
  
  Good source for comedy news
  
  (tags: comedyblog comedy blog news standup)
- Punchline Magazine
  
  Comedy News from an American viewpoint
  
  (tags: comedyblog blog comedy standup)
- the comic's comic
  
  Blog devoted to covering stand-up comedy
  
  (tags: comedy stand-up blog)
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- iSubwayMaps.com
  
  Subway and Tube maps sized for the iphone, ipod, or ipod nano. Now has a London tube map
  
  (tags: iphonemaps maps iphone tube london)
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- iSubwayMaps.com
  
  Subway and Tube maps sized for the iphone, ipod, or ipod nano. Now has a London tube map
  
  (tags: iphonemaps maps iphone tube london)
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- The Ashmolean - Museum of Art & Archaeology
  
  The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest museum, and the world's first university museum.
  
  (tags: museumstovisitinternational museum oxford unitedkingdom uk)
- World Record BASE Jump // Current
  
  World Record BASE jump from the tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai.
  
  (tags: basejumping)
- YouTube - Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Promo/Teaser
  
  Series 2 trailer for Flight of the Conchords
  
  (tags: flightoftheconchords news articles)
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- TECHNOFIXES : Technofixes
  
  Report investigating the technologies proposed to deal with climate change.
  
  (tags: climatechange)
- Obamafy Photo Booth Plugin
  
  Obama poster-style plugin for Photo Booth on the Mac
  
  (tags: photobooth app mac osx plugin)
- BBC - Archive Project - The Genesis of Doctor Who
  
  Documents from the BBC detailing the creation of the show from 1962 and 1963
  
  (tags: doctorwho archive documents)
- How to migrate a Parallels virtual machine to VirtualBox - Neil Turner's blog
  
  Howto for moving VMs from Parallels to VirtualBox on Mac OSX
  
  (tags: virtualmachines vm parallels virtualbox mac osx)
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