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Linkorama : Technology Beats a Full House - Such a rule change, it is safe to say, would be a big deal in the game of baseball, and everyone involved would want to know how to get their hitters on the high side of the spread. Are the players of the game of business interested in finding out how the
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nelson : Hard drive shredder - A hardware solution
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gleuschk : Exceptional MathReviews - updated for 2008
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gleuschk : Semester lengths at top U.S. and Canadian Universities - SU's is 138, I think. How does Princeton get away with 120?
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Simon Willison : Write to a Google Spreadsheet from a Python script - Write to a Google Spreadsheet from a Python script. I didn’t know Google Spreadsheets could directly serve dynamic images that automatically update when the underlying data changes.
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Eric Meyer : A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks - Good friends of ours got these for Rebecca, and I'm here to tell you that they're completely awesome. You should definitely buy a set for each and every toddler you know.
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deusx : A Tribute to Fallen Sodas | Gunaxin - "Ecto Cooler was the Hi-C tangerine and orange flavored drink featuring a picture of Slimer plastered on each box or can. Unfortunately, it’s long since ceased production, or at least ceased to exist under the Ecto Cooler brand. But the reminiscin
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Simon Willison : Google App Engine 1.1.9 boosts capacity and compatibility - Google App Engine 1.1.9 boosts capacity and compatibility. Niall summarises the recent changes to App Engine. urllib and urllib2 support plus massively increased upload limits and request duration quotas will make it a whole lot easier to deploy serious
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Andy Baio : TorrentFreak summarizes the Pirate Bay's first day in court - their coverage is great; also, their writeup of the press conference
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Andy Baio : Nate Silver predicts the Oscar winners - or: how to ruin an Oscar pool [via]
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Linkorama : Partisanship, by the Bye: Comment: The New Yorker - Obama has a similarly tough-minded understanding of the political uses of bipartisanship, which, even if it fails as a tactic for compromise, can succeed as a tonal strategy: once the other side makes itself appear intransigently, destructively partisan,
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nelson : The Space Game - Great flash game, a union of RTS and tower defense
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gleuschk : Banning Open Access | The n-Category Café - the Syracuse congresscritter, Dan Maffei, is on the Judiciary committee. I wrote him a strongly-worded letter urging him to oppose HR 801. Let me know if you want to see it.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications - Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications: some excellent advice in these talk notes
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Greg Storey : Let Beckham go. - He's a waste of time and money in this country.
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Greg Storey : Starbucks to sell instant coffee. - They're just setting themselves up to be acquired by McDonalds.
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wearehugh : ProgrammingBits | More On Function Decorators
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jonhicks : nathanpitman.com: An open letter to software developers RE Adobe Fireworks - There is such a hole in the market for Fireworks competitor - Mac developers put down those GTD apps and get going!
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Linkorama : Savant for a Day - ''We're not changing your brain physically,'' he assured me. ''You'll only experience differences in your thought processes while you're actually on the machine.'' His assistant made a few final adjus
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gleuschk : Rap about Perelman's proof of Poincare (and bonus Bolzano-Weierstrass rap) - Don’t know how the proof should gizzo / But I’ve surely got to trizzle / Cause every math geek wants to earn a Clay Prizzle.
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Ethan Marcotte : Speaking in Tongues - My own childhood had been the story of this and that combined, of the synthesis of disparate things. It never occurred to me that I was leaving the London district of Willesden for Cambridge. I thought I was adding Cambridge to Willesden, this new wa [via]
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deusx : James Tauber : Reading Apple ][ DOS 3.3 Disk Images with Python - "I was feeling nostalgic for the days of Apple ][ DOS 3.3 and started re-familiarizing myself with the disk layout (VTOC, catalog entries, track/sector lists, etc) Of course, I couldn't help but then implement them in Python. Here is a python
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Andy Baio : The Simpsons' new HD title sequence - airing in HD for the first time tonight [via]
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Andy Baio : NYT's Article Skimmer prototype - I find this much more usable than the homepage [via]
Cameron Moll : NYT Article Skimmer - Admittedly, I have hard time getting past the NYTimes.com home page. It's too dense for casual reading. However, over the weekend they released what they're temporarily calling Article Skimmer. This might be exactly what I need to engage more fully with N [via]
philgyford : Article Skimmer - NY Time's prototype news viewer. Nice idea but it equalises the importance of all but one of the stories. I want a newspaper to tell me what it thinks is important (even if it's wrong). Otherwise it's not a newspaper, it's a database.
Linkorama : Article Skimmer by The New York Times
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