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I just made a little Yahoo Pipe that extracts all the info from the IMDB Top 250 list. There were already a few of thee out there but none of them just took all, and just all, the info and outputted it as a pipe.

So here it is, but keep in mind that it’s mostly useful as RSS, JSON, or PHP object.
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My Bookmarks For December 6th – December 17th

Dec 17

Posted on December 17, 2009 0:00 in Links

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive – Simplest tutorial I found so far for making a bootable Windows 7 USB installer. No 3rd party software required, and very easy to follow.
REYNHOLM INDUSTRIES : Welcome – Awesome IT Crowd related website, not made by the IT Crowd people!
A Symfony 1.3 Gem: Open Files Listed in Exceptions with the Editor of your Choice – Very, very useful if you do Symfony development
How to setup Snow Leopard on mini 10v with A06 BIOS – I couldn’t manage to downgrade the bios, so I used this tutorial instead. It worked!

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My Bookmarks For November 18th – December 4th

Dec 5

Posted on December 5, 2009 0:03 in Links

10.5: How to reset Leopard back to the Setup Assistant – I've been reinstalling some laptops recently that are going to family. I wanted to put some apps on it already but couldn't take the "fresh OS X install"-feeling away from them so this little scripts puts a system back to basics while leaving the apps installed.
Install memcached PHP extension on OS X Snow Leopard – Much easier than I expected
How to configure, build a php extension on macosx snow leopard – Handy little snippet
Continuity (Flash Game) – I love it when games challenge your brain instead of bombard you with cutting edge graphics
Cryptographic Right Answers –
Install XP from USB – How do you install XP on a netbook without a DVD drive?
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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My Bookmarks For October 7th – November 9th

Nov 9

Posted on November 9, 2009 19:00 in Links

Kill or cure? – What does the Daily mail thinks causes or prevents cancer?
Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps – Working with Google maps directly can be a bitch (trust me, I tried) so I’m happy to see someone abstracted some cool functions out
10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques « Smashing Magazine – Thinking of building some of these techniques into my wordpress blog theme
Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine – I love Smashing Magazine. I already knew all of the things in this tutorial but I think it’s great for beginners

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My Bookmarks For August 23rd – September 21st

Sep 21

Posted on September 21, 2009 13:04 in Links

SpotifiTunes – Get your whole iTunes library in Spotify! Just import the XML and boom, it's there.
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft – Wow, a bit of software that will install IE3 – IE6 on a Windows Install. Using this now since MS buggered up their VPC installs
Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices – Handy little survey of font use across some of the sites where fonts (should) mattee
U Board – USB powered work space enhancer – Awesome little laptop stand that would look so good under my MacBook or iMac. And it even has a cup holder!!!!
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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My Bookmarks For August 10th – August 20th

Aug 20

Posted on August 20, 2009 23:00 in Links

Always Innovating: Introducing the Touch Book – I would almost get this as my NetBook, if it wasn't that "new". Also can't figure out the import tax I'd have to pay if I got one
convert .vhd (virtualpc) file to .vdi (virtualbox) format – Handy little tutorial for converting a VirtualPC hard disk image to a VirtualBox harddisk image
IE76, IE7, IE8 Disk Images – Handy little disk images containing time limited installs of XP/Vista with IE6/IE7/IE8, etc.
Virtual PC 2007 – Best way of getting a free version of IE6 on a Mac is to run VPC2007 in Windows Vista on a VirtualBox VM….. Sigh….
HTML5 enabling script – The new HTML5 tags don't really play well in IE6/IE7 unless you run this script on your site.

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My Bookmarks For August 5th – August 10th

Aug 10

Posted on August 10, 2009 15:04 in Links

Viral Coefficient Calculation – Needed this for work. Very clear description. I would have liked if his future prediction formula also took the second derivative of the growth (the 1st derivative of the virality)
Integrated Bus Route Maps from WhatBus.com! – Handy little app that shows all the bus routes in London overlayed on a google map.
New development techniques using Opera Kestrel (9.5) – Little hack to get rounded corners in Opera!
CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer – Probably the only document I found that was able to tell me how to do Opera browser hacks!
Symfony deployment Cheat Sheet –

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My Bookmarks For July 25th – August 4th

Aug 4

Posted on August 4, 2009 10:00 in Links

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment – Awesome Twitter visualization that only uses Javascript and HTML5
Quirkybags – Handbag liner. Quite handy. A bit more expensive than I was looking for as my Crumpler bag that I want to use it for.
Helveticons – Great bunch of royalty free icons based on the Helvetica fonttype
Project Lombok – Cool little project from Reinier and Roel that tries to make Java way less verbose. I love it!
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real – Anil Dash – Are pushbuttons the future?

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My Bookmarks For July 16th – July 23rd

Jul 23

Posted on July 23, 2009 11:00 in Links

ie7.js & ie8.js – I need to look into these libraries to make my next project work 100% in both IE7 and IE6
Get MySQLdb Running on Mac Leopard « Bethink – This is the only online tutorial that I managed to be able to setup up MySQLdb successfully with.
CitySounds.fm – The music of cities – One of the other hacks from Music Hack Day. Way more awesome than mine if I might say.
Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer My Cell at a Movie if It Seems Urgent? – Brilliant photo
My Little Django – because magical mascots are awesome! – Haha, I remember Carl giving this talk, but the fact that someone made a My Little Django generator is brilliant!

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