1/10/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy | The Onion - The US political "system" in a nutshell: "According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn't even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for th #
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1/10/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You'r
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1/10/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Greg Storey : "One day, Steve Jobs is going to die." - Fantastic lead.
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1/10/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Dan Rather interviews FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver - applying knowledge learned from baseball analytics to electoral projections
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1/10/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Microsoft buying search - More garbage from MS trying to inflate usage of their anemic Live search service
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1/10/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
joshua : Netflix API : Introducing the Netflix API
Andy Baio : Netflix launches public Javascript, Atom, REST APIs - as Kellan points out, it comes with OAuth, a developer blog, and an API explorer [via]
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1/10/2008 @ 20:02 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext 3.0: - Bringing Facebook, Twitter and iGoogle to the Enterprise - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
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1/10/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Eve 64 - Some more notes from Eve Online's server infrastructure. They support more people interacting in real time on one computer than any deployment I know
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1/10/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
nelson : Google datacenter efficiency - Interesting marketing site about how Google runs efficient datacenters
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1/10/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
joshua : GovTrack: Source Code, Data, and APIs - ooh more data
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1/10/2008 @ 18:06 GMT
Cameron Moll : Apple: “We have decided to drop the [NDA] for released iPhone software" - Apple: “We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software…. [T]he NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it
Andy Baio : Apple lifts iPhone NDA, developers rejoice - Furbo released some source to celebrate
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1/10/2008 @ 18:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : Designer Daily - Swiss graphic designer Mirko Humbert's Designer Daily is a little under-appreciated. Give it a read and you might agree.
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1/10/2008 @ 18:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Coldwell Banker iPhone-friendly property listing searches - Coldwell Banker Real Estate releases an iPhone-friendly adaptation of their website for property listings search and home value estimates. Of course, the timing of the release is rather ironic given the current state of the housing market...
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1/10/2008 @ 18:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : "'Online' is no longer a technical state. 'Online' just is." - Marta Strickland, What Makes A "Digital Native" Different? "For many children that are growing up with early adopters for parents, they have never known a time without cell phones, they have never known a time without wireless internet buzzing through the
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gleuschk : Mathematical Miniatures, by Beno Eckmann - I especially like the first one about the birth of arrows
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1/10/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Sarah Palin plays the flute in Miss Alaska pageant - see also: Nixon on piano, Clinton on sax
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1/10/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Routefinder, analog mapping wristwatch from the 1920s - scroll your way through the UK [via]
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1/10/2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Boats that were missed. - Things you might have heard about but have never read, seen, or heard.
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1/10/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Washington State University is looking for someone to lead their web strategy. - Sounds like a very cool job.
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1/10/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Nero LiquidTV Introduction - Nero LiquidTV Introduction: this looks like an interested idea if you already have an HTPC setup
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1/10/2008 @ 16:03 GMT
Linkorama : Collaboration vs. Cooperation - Peter Tosh once famously lamented, in his song Equal Rights, everybody wants to go to heaven, but none of them want to die.
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1/10/2008 @ 16:02 GMT
Linkorama : The Beltway Crash - The Washington elite have failed, completely failed in the eyes of the average American and that’s reflected in across the board polls that show 3 in 4 people surveyed disapprove of the job Congress is doing, worse than the President and that’s a pret
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1/10/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Word Magazine: Album Covers Map [via]
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1/10/2008 @ 16:00 GMT
deusx : Signing the message contents - OAuth | Google Groups - I've skimmed the specs but haven't yet gotten down to implementing anything with OAuth, so I'd been wondering how to pair OAuth and AtomPub. Further on in the thread, there's a good explanation why OAuth only deals with query params. &
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1/10/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
jonhicks : Automatic numbering with CSS Counters - Opera Developer Community
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1/10/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Cascading - Cascading. A Java API abstraction layer over Hadoop that lets developers think in terms of pipes and filters rather than map/reduce. The Cascading developers claim that this model is easier to understand and less error prone.
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1/10/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows - Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows. It’s not instantly clear if you need to source your own Windows licenses or if the license comes as part of the hourly VM charge. If it’s the latter, I can see this being fantastically useful for both automated
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1/10/2008 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Splicd, permalink to a YouTube timecode - conveniently hackable URLs, too
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1/10/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads [video] - Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads [video]: "all of them" heh
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1/10/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Using the New MySQL Query Profiler - Using the New MySQL Query Profiler. Extremely powerful new feature in MySQL 5.0.37. Definitely something for the Django debug toolbar.
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1/10/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Do Locks Lock? - How Do Locks Lock?: a good read
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1/10/2008 @ 02:02 GMT
dbow : Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com - Cool coverage of Flickr, prominently featuring Heather and the decisions the team makes around community.
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1/10/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Jeanne Says… - This is pretty cute. Some fellow will be proposing to his girlfriend in a couple weeks, is secretly photoblogging the entire lead-up, and has blacklisted her IP so that she stays in the dark. Love is IP blocking. ∞
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1/10/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Try Google Search as it looked in January 2001 - extremely surreal flashback only available for one month; predates 9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this blog [via]
Rod Begbie : Google 2001 - In celebration of their tenth birthday, Google have resuscitated their search index from January 2001. Ah, the good old days, when "ROD BEGBIE IN VIRGIN SNOG SHOCKER!" turned up on the second page of results for my egosurf. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Rososo, the peaceful newsreader - clean and minimalist approach to feedreading for newbies [via]
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