- "Australian researchers say a caffeine hit improves our ability to process information and increases the extent to which we listen to and take on board a persuasive message."
- Andrew Sullivan thinks London is basically indistinguishable from a major blue-state city, including the rampant anti-Americanism.
- "Radical decentralization as a cure for what ails America"
Tumbly goodness, page
19 
Kottke
says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream
of consciousness… with more than just links.
Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they
have a plan.
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- Notes from Y Combinator's Startup School 2006, taken by the audience with SEE.
- U.S. gasoline prices, adjusted for inflation, 1979 to the present.
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- (tags: programming)
- Searching for locations matching U+2620 in the EVDB API results in… St. Louis, MO???
- Yet Another color scheme generator thingy.
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- SIO scientists have traced the mysterious boom of 4 April to a sound wave which originated off the coast of San Diego.
- Featuring (in LOONICODE+0003) the upcoming summer movie sensation COMBINING SNAKE BELOW AIRPLANE.
- (tags: psychology children)
- (tags: psychology economics)
- Basically, only SuperDuper is trustworthy.
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- Is this a compelling argument for moving to Wyoming?
- An argument for probationary periods in hiring for a startup. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
- Ubuntu outperforms Solaris Express on Sun's T2000. Speaking of which, am I the only one who immediately thought of Ed Norton's Terminator when reading this?
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- A bunch of ridiculous unix utilities.
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- Are you a sharecropper?
- "Why cities without gays and rock bands are losing the economic development race."(tags: demographics culture)
- The web app variant of Google's authentication stuff isn't documented yet.
- Specifically, writing DSLs in Ruby.(tags: ruby)
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- The story of the longest game in baseball history.
- Some of this movie is being filmed at my grandmother's house in North Cambridge.
- "Most companies have it all wrong. They don't have to motivate their employees. They have to stop demotivating them."
- "It seems like there's a lot of public interest in what it's like to work at Microsoft. Here's my personal persepctive on the good, the bad, and the in-between."
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- Were everything that happened in movies true, this would be an historical timeline.
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- Interview with Starbuck… some (fairly light) spoilers.
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- Nice syntactic sugar for bulding DOM elements in JavaScript.
- “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences”
- Free DNS services.
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- Testing the foam firefighting system at Ellsworth AFB; it doesn't turn off when expected; hilarity ensues.(tags: humor)
- Series of fantastic maps on religious demographics in America.
- Extremely cool.
- Safari sends If-Modified-Since even when the server doesn't return Last-Modified. "CGI scripts which have no concept of Last-Modified will, under some conditions, be returning a 304 Not Modified to Safari. If the state of your resource changes more than o
- "The Boston Web Technology Forum is a group weblog profiling Boston area web startups and their products."
- Google's patents.
- Another great one from Joel. This time, he brilliantly describes how software companies ought to be put together, etc., etc.
- "DocSynch is a collaborative editing system on top of IRC." This + ERC would make a nice Emacs extension.
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- Really great list of what would be awesome to have in a distributed VCS.
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- Simpsons-esque interpretation of Six and Baltar.
- Kill ring for OS X. Too bad it doesn't support C-y M-y M-y …. M-y
- I don't even know what to say. Talk about having too much time on your hands.
- Ian Hickson's proposal for cross-site XHR, based on the WHATWG discussion of JSONRequest.(tags: XMLHttpRequest xss)
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- "Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of American-ness. It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. In those countries, people color inside the lines."
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- There's evidently an Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. Go figure.(tags: microsoft open-source)
- Mark Pilgrim is blogging again.
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