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links for 2006-11-03 November 3, 2006 1:28 pm

• PHP Frontend to ImageMagick
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• Create Dynamic Images with ImageMagick [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
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• Take Back Your Time
  (tags: poverty workweek labor middleclass hours employment)
• Take Back Your Time
  (tags: time work life balance simplicity gtd)
• [magick-users] convert-probem with a large PDF
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• Ian Castle – Re: Getting images into PDF
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• digg – Examples of ImageMagick Usage
  (tags: Imagemagick examples)
• IM v6 Examples — Common Image Formats
  (tags: Imagemagick pdf vector examples)
• Python Imaging Library (PIL)
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• GraphicsMagick Image Processing System
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• Never Never Land
  (tags: WordPress plugin Forum Plugins)
• British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
  (tags: politics bush news war_on_terror security world uk)
• Technophilia: Top ten (non-Google) map innovations – Lifehacker
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• SIMILE | Timeline
  (tags: ajax timeline visualization javascript web2.0 tools web)
• Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money
  (tags: Programming software management Development motivation work job)
• Amberjack: Site Tour Creator – Simple. Free. Open Source.
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• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Lies Your Mother Told You.
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• The Parable of the Two Programmers
  (tags: programming humor satire productivity coding work funny)
• Techdirt: Why You Don’t Want Lawyers With Senses Of Humor Writing Your Patent Applications
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• Vitamin Features » Our Office 2.0 Experiment
  (tags: office software productivity web2.0 tools web article)
• Geesee.com
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links for 2006-11-02 November 2, 2006 1:35 pm

• The Care and Feeding of Your Troll: A Primer
  So, you brought home a new Internet Troll. Congratulations! If you are a first timer having a troll, you may have questions. Here are a few suggestions so that you and your troll can live in karmic balance. Now remember, each troll is different and you
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• My Unified Theory About Heroes – NBC
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• Zamzar – Free online file conversion
  (tags: conversion tools file online free convert Web2.0)
• Elephants and Evolution – How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe
  (tags: web2.0 Microsoft google Mozilla web Adobe Desktop future computers)
• digg – The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you’ve Forgotten, part 3
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration css Web website web-design comments)
• Optimizing Page Load Time – die.net
  (tags: performance optimization web http html webdesign browser)
• Diebold demands that HBO cancel documentary on voting machines
  (tags: censorship media politics news political vote voting)
• Daily Cup of Tech » Build a USB Drive Mail System
  (tags: email usb portable tools mail howto tutorial)
• The Bruce Sterling Online Index: The Hacker Crackdown
  (tags: books security hacking book cyberpunk ebooks literature e-book)
• 50 Tools that can Increase your Writing Skills – by Dumb Little Man
  (tags: writing tips language Tools english literature skill blogtips)
• 10 things you MUST know before you register a domain name with anyone
  (tags: domain tips internet dns security website network)
• 11 Ways To Sleep Better at Ririan Project
  (tags: sleep health tips lifehacks howto life articles)
• Spanning Sync Blog
  (tags: video hosting a3 amazon storage bandwidth)
• Uêba – Incredible Little Mech Sculpture
  (tags: art sculpture robots)
• Black Box Voting : 10-31-06: Reports from the front lines — Citizens find critical security issue with Sequoia
  (tags: politics voting electronicvoting blackbox hack)
• The Microsoft Office Word Team’s Blog : Microsoft Office Webcasts & Developer Roadmap
  (tags: office2007 developer microsoft)
• Alexa Web Search
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links for 2006-11-01 November 1, 2006 1:29 pm

• Telegraph | Entertainment | How to be funny
  (tags: humor funny psychology comedy Howto toread)
• How to Choose a DSLR Camera
  (tags: photography camera tips technology buy reference photos)
• Should you buy a DSLR or Point and Shoot Digital Camera?
  (tags: photography camera digital slr photo photos shopping)
• Welcome to Scrybe
  (tags: calendar tools web2.0 organizer Ajax web todo)
• CRMchump: 50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government
  (tags: opensource business articles blog open OSS linux)
• Sliced Software » Seymore: Content Management
  (tags: cms rails rubyonrails ruby opensource web code)
• Drivl.com | The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod – An Illustrated Journey
  (tags: ipod apple humor funny humour geek culture)
• The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable
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• Miranda IM – Home of the Miranda IM client. Smaller, Faster, Easier
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• Reason Magazine – Medicare Part E: Chastity Belts
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links for 2006-10-31 October 31, 2006 1:33 pm

• The Bottomless Pit
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• turn any command line script or AppleScript into a system service
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• How to: Kiss Corporate Life Goodbye | Pearsonified
  (tags: business career work jobs entrepreneurship blogs webdesign)
• Top Mac Applications
  (tags: mac software osx freeware opensource free apple)
• Brightcove – Watch a Channel, Launch a Channel
  (tags: video sharing web2.0)
• Vitamin Features » Create a searchable Google map
  (tags: google googlemaps ajax maps api development JavaScript)
• 10 things you should know about connecting Macintosh OS X systems to Windows networks
  (tags: Mac networking Windows osx network HowTo apple)
• » Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby… | Smashing Magazine | modern magazine for web-designers and developers
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• village voice > news > Nat Hentoff by Nat Hentoff
  (tags: bush law constitution Terrorism president militarycommissionsact treason)
• How to Change the World: Book Review: The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
  (tags: management books psychology work social kawasaki quotes)
• Friends shocked at loss of free-climbing pioneer
  This is why you tie around the belay loop AND the harness.
  (tags: climbing rock death fall)
• Todd Skinner’s Virtual Climbing Tour
  (tags: climbing photos death memorial)
• How to survive your first week at work – Forbes.com – MSNBC.com
  (tags: job employment tricks advice howto)
• 9/11 – Are Americans The Victims Of A Hoax? » Shoutwire.com
  (tags: wtc conspiracy 911 9/11)
• 9/11 – ARE AMERICANS THE VICTIMS OF A HOAX?
  (tags: conspiracy 911 9/11 wtc war terrorism Bush)
• Anatoli Baranov: America started warfare. Russia has already lost – Pravda.Ru
  (tags: war terrot bush)
• How to make a woman happy | Clipmarks
  (tags: funny fun happiness happy humour humor women woman list men advice)

links for 2006-10-30 October 30, 2006 1:32 pm

• Free Gabmail
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• KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!
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• RetailMeNot.com – never pay full price again with these coupon and promotion codes for online stores
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• Ned Batchelder: Subversion branching quick start
  (tags: subversion svn howto branching programming development scm)
• In Teens’ Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year
  (tags: myspace trends teens out)
• Awesome Video on the Mysteries of 9-11 » Netscape.com
  (tags: wtc 911 9/11 conspiracy video)
• MySpace — so popular no one goes there » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work
  (tags: myspace facebook popular teens trends fads)
• Linux Headquarters: Setting your Path
  (tags: linux path bash tcsh csh)
• Writing a Plugin « WordPress Codex
  (tags: wordpress php plugin programming Plugins reference howto fordoug toread)
• » How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin
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links for 2006-10-28 October 28, 2006 2:27 pm

• Fig Tree Notes » 2004 » March
  (tags: toread)
• del.icio.us daily blog posting feature support? « WordPress Support
  (tags: wordpress del.icio.us blogging delicious tools blog web)
• Testing Existence in Arrays @ COLDFUSION DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL
  (tags: CFDJ ColdFusion array)
• Index of /download/php
  (tags: php graphics imagemagick gui)
• PECL :: Package :: imagick
  (tags: php Imagemagick gui wrapper graphics)
• digg – Global cooling, again
  (tags: globalwarming globalcooling warming cooling science)
• digg – Blade Runner Documentary – On the Edge of Blade Runner
  (tags: digg bladerunner movie deckard replicant blade runner)
• digg – What your pet is thinking
  (tags: digg comments pets intelligence consciousness science)
• Northwest Florida Daily News: What your pet is thinking
  (tags: pets consciousness science thinking intelligence)
• 101 Web Marketing Ideas and Tips – Cristian Mezei
  (tags: seo marketing web tips webdesign business Ideas HOT fordoug toread)
• Newsletter Manager Plugin For WordPress | Semiologic
  (tags: wordpress plugins newsletter plugin programming)
• Better way to do a user newsletter? « WordPress Support
  (tags: wordpress newsletter)
• Bloglet
  (tags: Blog email RSS blogging blogs tool newsletter)
• Newsletter plugin « WordPress Support
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• Le Weblog WordPress
  (tags: wordpress plugin email plugins mailing cms newsletter)

links for 2006-10-27 October 27, 2006 5:25 pm

• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) – Joel on Software
  (tags: interview hiring Jobs recruiting career development business guide)
• A beginner’s guide to freelancing (Phil Gyford: Writing)
  (tags: freelancing guide freeagent workathome selfemployeed)
• The elephant and the event horizon – fundamentals – 26 October 2006 – New Scientist Space
  (tags: physics science interesting space research toread article blackhole paradox)
• Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki – Lifehacker
  (tags: wiki gtd productivity software organization Tools lifehacks)
• Resources for the webmaster/website builder – SiteAdminStuff.com
  (tags: admin WebDesign list fordoug toread reference links)
• wp-polls – WordPress Plugin Repository – Trac
  (tags: wordpress plugin Plugins poll polls blog blogging)
• Democracy AJAX Poll at Jalenack
  (tags: wordpress plugin ajax poll blog blogging software)
• Welcome to RIAForge
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• CFLib.org – ZipFileNew
  (tags: CF coldfusion cold fusion zip compression)
• CFTagStore.com – CFX_JZip
  (tags: cf cfx coldfusion cold fusion zip compression)
• rewindlife.com » Blog Archive » Unzip a file in CFMX with java.util.zip
  (tags: Java ColdFusion Zip cf cfmx compression cold fusion)
• Creating ZIP files on the fly in Cold Fusion. – Description of advanced demo.
  (tags: cf coldfusion cold fusion zip compression)
• Combine TIFF files? [Archive] – The macosxhints Forums
  (tags: Imagemagick convert tiff pdf)
• http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/graphics/imagemagick.hints
  (tags: Imagemagick graphics tips unix howto software tiff pdf)
• Multivalent Tools
  (tags: pdf java tools)
• Netpbm home page
  (tags: graphics tiff pdf convert)
• 9/11 conspiracy theories dismantled by Popular Mechanics – Punters’ Paradise
  (tags: wtc conspiracy popular mechanics)
• LinuxDevCenter.com — Making Screen-Capture Movies
  (tags: Imagemagick movie video screencapture)
• Fig Tree Notes » 2004 » March
  (tags: toread)
• del.icio.us daily blog posting feature support? « WordPress Support
  (tags: wordpress del.icio.us blogging delicious tools blog web)
• Testing Existence in Arrays @ COLDFUSION DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL
  (tags: CFDJ ColdFusion array)
• Index of /download/php
  (tags: php graphics imagemagick gui)
• PECL :: Package :: imagick
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