Polyvore is a killer app. It’s not for everyone (obviously). But, it’s quite intriguing. I’m quite surprised I haven’t heard more about it already. The gist is, you can create sets of images in the form of a collage. Check it out.
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abu
engadget is doing a similar thing since some months
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Dean Massalsky
Cool….I just installed the new version a few weeks back and installed about all the stencils..Never saw these..
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Jim Doran
GREAT talk. Thank you so much!!!!
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Hugo Baeta
Great speak!
Your monotone theme is an inspiration! Keep it up!
alisa are discussing. 
Blue Beanie Day 2009
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Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post a photo, and pop a beanie on your Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook avatars to help spread the word.
Notational Velocity
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NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
via Notational Velocity.
Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X
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Intel-based Macintosh computers can be protected by firmware passwords as well.
Joystiq Comment Fading from @mbuckbee
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I was on Joystiq – reading about the 1up layoffs – and noticed that they’ve implemented a very interesting comment approval / rating design.
As people vote comments down they become less and less opaque eventually rendering them all but illegible.
A clever way of quieting the more obnoxious voices.
abu is discussing. 
OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils from Konigi
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This is a set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle version 5.x (Mac OS X). It consists of most of the basic elements you’ll need to create user interface specifications. The images below show the stencil in action.
Dean Massalsky is discussing. 
WordPress 2.7
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WordPress 2.7 has been released. It’s awesome. But, I’ll let the video do the talking:
Remindr
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Remindr is a simple service to remind you to do something at a specific time through twitter, jabber, email, or SMS. Groovy.
TouchOSC
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TouchOSC is an iPhone / iPod Touch application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol.
via hexler.net – TouchOSC. via jstn.cc
about keyboardr
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keyboardr is a homepage. It speeds up your internet expirience.
And if you like, it helps you keeping your hands on the keyboard.
GT-R Laps Porsche
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Nissan says the GT-R laps the Nürburgring in 7:29.03. Porsche says ‘impossible’. (PDF)
via Drivers Republic (PDF) via toni.org.
Captcha, I hate you too.
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At the heart of the game of cat-and-mouse played by bloggers and spammers is Captcha, purveyor of those staticky demands to enter the code exactly as shown above.
Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema’s Ultrahigh-Res Camera
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His team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film. The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—”4K” in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. For comparison, hi-def digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080, just like your HDTV. (There’s also a slightly higher-resolution option called 2K that reaches 2,048 lines by 1,080.) Film doesn’t have pixels, but the industry-standard 35-millimeter stock has a visual resolution roughly equivalent to 4K. And that’s what makes the Red so exciting: It delivers all the dazzle of analog, but it’s easier to use and cheaper—by orders of magnitude—than a film camera. In other words, Jannard’s creation threatens to make 35-mm movie film obsolete.
Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema’s Ultrahigh-Res Camera
WordCamp This Saturday!
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Being an Automattician and all, I’ll be attending WordCamp this Saturday the 16th.
As lorelle mentions, there are also quite a bit of wonderful treats surrounding WordCamp, like a WordPress Genuis Bar and a WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt!
I’m extra excited to go, since somehow, they missed it, and are allowing me to present! There are going to be some really amazing speakers, like: Jane Wells, Andy Skelton, Andy Peatling, Alan Levine, Tantek Çelik, Noel Jackson, Joseph Scott, Lloyd Budd, Mark Jaquith, Stephen O’Grady, Jeremy Clarke, Aaron Brazell, Sam Bauers, Will Norris, Liz Danzico, Chris Lea, Tom Coates, Chuck Lewis, Stephan Spencer, Steve Souders, and more!!!!
Now, Fully Automattic
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All in part to an offer I just couldn’t refuse, I’m now part of the Automattic team. I’m very excited and very honored to be working with such an awesome team. I’ll be working on top secret projects (and some not so top secret projects), pushing pixels, flipping bits, and bringing my insight to all that I can.
Most of you (that’s you Mom) know Automattic through their work on WordPress and Akismet.
Analog Meets Digital – Quality Control
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Amid all this hi-tech digital trickery, it is sometimes nice to be able to cast one’s mind back to the simpler analogue age and the measuring devices of the past. For example, we hooked up an analogue meter like those used in many industries for decades, fed it some different input and ended up with a literal desktop dashboard that measures average website response time.
The Garrard 401: My New Baby
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The Garrard 401 + Lignolab Plinth + SME 3012 + Denon 301R combo was 1 year in the making. It sounds so beautiful, you’d be amazed. Yes, it’s a record player. Call me antiquated.
alisa 5:21 pm on 6 Dec 2009 Permalink
i luv polyvore!!!!!!!!! shiettttttt, u never heard of it before? hehhee
noel 6:49 pm on 7 Dec 2009 Permalink
I heard about it a while back – I’m just surprised I’m not hearing MORE about it. :)