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Simon Willison : Minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests - Minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests. Interesting idea for master-slave replication balancing where GET v.s. POST is load-balanced by nginx, presumably to different backend servers that are configured to talk to either a slave or a master. This
deusx : Django snippets: minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests - "After a point the sql server becomes the bottleneck in lots of web application, and to scale, master-slave replication with single master, multiple slave is recommended. This setup with nginx can be used to accomplish traffic distribution between ma
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8 month ago
deusx : Adactio: Journal—Mi.gration - "It remains to be seen whether I’ll stay at Magnolia. Even though it is functionally and cosmetically superior to del.icio.us, that might not be enough"
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21 month ago
jimray : Hard-core porn interrupts Brokaw broadcast - Awkwaaaaaard
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21 month ago
jimray : Are you watching this? - Watches TV so you don't have to. Let's you know when something interesting is happening. Hook this up to twitter and this is just plain brilliance
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21 month ago
jimray : Fred Thompson takes aim at global threat Mahatma Gandhi - Oh, and it gets better! The fuckwits at Power Line Blog go so far as to declare Gandhi "the most overrated man of the 20th Century."
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21 month ago
jimray : Somebody hooked Twitter up to a USB dildo - Uh, this is sorta perfect?
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21 month ago
jimray : You can buy Postal Service CD's from the U.S. Postal Service
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jimray : MySpace News is real, Wired has screengrabs - Not so much a news portal, just an aggregator and digg-like social engine.
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21 month ago
jimray : Sunlight Labs is a bunch of projects that aims to increase government/media transparency - Come for the great ideas, stay for the API's (thanks, Dubs!)
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21 month ago
jimray : Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) first national politician to publicly declare he doesn't believe in God - Officially a "Unitarian who doesn't believe in a supreme being" - I guess that's a start...
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21 month ago
jimray : The *real* heroes of newspapers - Dare I say... Right On!
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21 month ago
jimray : Project Red Stripe - The Economist sets up a skunkworks project to come up with a Next Big Thing by July. They've got a staff of six and $200,000
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21 month ago
jimray : Scoopt acquired by Getty Images - Looks like Getty is just going to buy a UGC play. Probably pretty smart for them, actually
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21 month ago
jimray : New Yorker redesigns - I mostly like it, sorta Morning Newsish, but really, you just can't wait to read what Kottke thinks
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21 month ago
jimray : Social Explorer provides kickass demographics data that you can map! - This looks wicked cool
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21 month ago
jimray : Coins circulating without ‘In God We Trust’ - About goddamn time. Oh. Wait. It's a mistake? Dammit.
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21 month ago
jimray : Secrets & features of iTunes 7.1 - "iTunes now correctly identifies the color of an aluminum second-generation iPod shuffle under the Library and Settings menus"
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21 month ago
jimray : TerraPass - 21st century carbon footprint indulgences - In the old days, you bought indulgences to get in to heaven. This seems like a better use of your cash, since I'm pretty sure that whole heaven thing is a scam.
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21 month ago
jimray : NBC decided to host some HD Spider-Man 3 footage for 24 hours, which is about the stupidest idea ever - This is retarded and shows exactly why TV people just don't get the web. IT'S NOT FUCKING TV, YOU MORONS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT JUST LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS IDIOT BOXES!
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21 month ago
jimray : John Edwards is a twitterer - That yellow background is SOO gay. I kid, I kid!
Rod Begbie : Twitter / johnedwards - John Edwards's campaign is Twittering his campaign stops. [via] #
nelson : John Edwards twitters - The Edwards campaign seems to be the new Internet campaign
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21 month ago
jimray : Things you can do to help save internet radio from the fuckwits at the RIAA - Fuck me, I'm pissed that I get so irrationally pissed about this fucking bullshit. Motherfucking assholes...
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com: Nice job, Simon!
Simon Willison : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com. My first project launch as a freelancer. You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
jimray : OpenID comes to WordPress.com - Use your WordPress login as an OpenID now
plasticbag : Now you can use your Wordpress ID as an OpenID. This is a cool thing. - Bloody typical of that Willison chap to be behind it as well. Come back to work, Simon. I'm really bored and I miss you.
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21 month ago
jimray : Remixed TV themese from the 80's - From Fatal Farm, the guys who brought you Infinite Solutions. These are awesome, probably not safe for work.
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21 month ago
jimray : How the geeks get thin - Hacker's diets, dietblogs, treadmills that check email and more
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21 month ago
jimray : U.S. Government bans Vista, Office 2007 - That's a pretty big customer...
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