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BetaNews | Microsoft to Embed RSS in IE, Windows

This is great news- they are right that 'subscription' is an awfully powerful concept that has a home in a huge number of applications and services...

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OK Computer: Top album of the last 20 years

Makes sense to me...

From: green plastic radiohead

Spin magazine named Radiohead's "OK Computer" the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive "even when its words are spoken by a robot." The British band's album edged out Public Enemy's...

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Design Time Exceptions in Visual Studio.Net

A small tip for anyone whois attempting to use the Visual Studio.Net form designer and getting an exception (most likely in your empty constructor or somewhere derivative, though watch for OnLoad, etc...). A great way to figure out why the designer is complaining (and to find the exact line of code) is to simply open a second instance of Visual Studio, attach the debugger to the original Visual Studio process, configure the debugger to break on .Net exceptions, then load the designer in your original Visual Studio.  Voila- you'll break on the exception and see just what the problem was (no more tedious binary search!).

Microsoft Gets Hard Core About RSS

Dave Winer says that they're focused on lists in addition to other uses of RSS. I think that they'll be doing the obvious (bookmarks via RSS)- what about adding native search feeds support to IE/Windows- that is the slam dunk feature of RSS right now.

From: Moonwatcher

When the tools become ubiquitous, the next step is RSS-enable everything.

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Command line for the web

Replace the Keyword.Url in Firefox's about:config with http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command= and your address bar is now a YubNub command line.

From: Anil Dash

Wow. I'm so lazyweb, I hadn't even written up the post describing the app i wanted, and someone's already gone and built it. Jon Aquino made YubNub, his entry in the Rails Day contest. It's a server-based system for assigning your own keywords for …

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When do we learn what colors mean?

Cognitive daily is a great blog if you're interested in learning more about the way our brains and minds work (not to step into a philosophical dilemma). I read it regularly and every day there is something new and interesting to read!

From: Cognitive Daily

When I was about twelve years old, I came up with an idea for a massive practical joke to play on an unsuspecting baby. For its entire childhood, everyone around the baby would conspire to convince it that the sky was green. Then at some point in the …

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SidePilot

The Joel on Software 'secret' project is revealed. An interesting idea to focus specifically on tech support for friends and family. I can tell you that this would come in handy for my Mom's computer- and if setup is incredibly transparent (since she will have to participate), I'll even probably use it next time she has a problem!

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No, I'm not keeping up with your blog.

This may be just why an aggregator can only take you so far, before you fall back into just checking someone's web page when you feel like it. Even when aggregators scale well, there is only so many hours in a day and so many blogs that can or should be read.

From: Joho the Blog

I would like to. I really would. I like it and I like you. But we're now well past the point where any of us can keep up with all the blogs worth reading from the people worth keeping up with. Even with an aggregator. I just can't do it any more. I've …

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Backdrifter.com » Blog Archive » Odeo Review

Odea is now in beta and the reviews are hitting the blogs. I am intrigued by phone based podcasting since the infrastructure is already in place for anywhere podcasts (cell phones)!

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Aristotle and conversation: Maybe I wasn't completely wrong

I think that this assumes that something like 'eternal knowledge' (and implicitly, 'truth') exists, which I think is the fundamental problem with this reasoning. The best we can probably hope for is to agree on some definition of what consistutes truth and then strive to achieve that.

Science is the best example of this- the validity of predictions (or the failure to falsify predictions, more precisely) is what constitutes truth in the community of scientists, and as our ability to experiment and measure grows, whole sections of science are discarded and replaced with better explanations.

From: Joho the Blog

A couple of days ago, I wrote up a thought that I was afraid sounds better than it is. But now I think maybe it isn't as hollow as I'd thought. The idea was this: Aristotle says that to know x is to place x into a relationship of similarity and …

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