- The EU doesn't include Al Qaeda on its official list of terrorist organizations.
- Looks like it does most of what I'd want something like that to do
- Batch geocoding for the masses.
- Philip Greenspun on "some practical aspects of retiring young." Useful life advice even for those who don't retire young.
- Andy Rutledge tries his hand at improving the look and usability of google.com. Pretty result.
Tumbly goodness, page
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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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RFC 2119 humor:
I saw a traffic sign today on University Ave. that said "Bicycles may use sidewalk" My very first reaction was that the text should be "Bicycles MAY use sidewalk". It was followed by the thought that it should also read "… thus, pedestrians MUST be prepared to encounter bicycles on the sidewalk."
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Joe Gregorio’s released
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Some early projections put the Sox on top of the AL East and the Dodgers on top of the NL West. If that’s how things play out, we’ll have a happy household.
Prior to the Crisp trade, the Yankees and Red Sox were pretty close to even. However, according to ZiPS now the Red Sox are clearly better.
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Mephisto looks really clean. Check out how nice its Atom feed generator is.
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The Royal Navy’s newest warship, HMS Daring (D32), comes with iPod charging stations.
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Markaby looks like a nice Ruby equivalent of the myriad Common Lisp sexp-to-ML generators.
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Gmail’s "Map This" feature rocks! Very convenient for low-fi event invitations via email.
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- "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a
- "GLTerminal emulates a 1970’s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker. It even simulates baud rate lag."
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- WhyReboot is a small (60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. This is useful in determining why an installer has notified you that a reboot is needed.
- Reduce your Javascript down to a reasonable size.
- "Not very well. For eight top news stories of 2005, blogs were listed in Google search results before the Times six times, the Times only twice."
- Tyler Cowen's take on Ed Lazear, who's been nominated to be the new CEA head. Sounds like an interesting guy.
- IE7: Yet another browser to regularly test code in.
- How to split up the equity between startup founders? This is a good overview of the issues and options.
- "Google does not expect to make further donations to the Google Foundation for the foreseeable future." Jeez. First the China stuff, now this. Who's handling Google's PR? They should be fired.
- Good overview of what Steve Jobs does so well
- Great list of things to keep in mind when hiring.(tags: business startup-school)
- Heh.(tags: law-and-order humor)
- Companion website for the book of the same name.(tags: css)
- Mitsubishi's Apricot AL C Series weighs 996g, has a Pentium M 753 (1.20Ghz), 256 to 1280 MB RAM, 20 to 100 GB HD. I want one.
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Since widespread SVG adoption is a ways off, John Oxton's come up with a Flash-based mechanism for creating a scalable website logo, which scales with the user's font size without loss of quality. Very nice looking.
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"The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge [on Wikipedia]. The alterations on Wikipedia represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by staffers at the House of Representatives in the last 6 months."
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Easily plot places onto a Yahoo Map using the hReview and geo microformats. Very cool.
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kritX spiders for hReview-containing websites, and aggregates the reviews together onto its front page.
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For me, it was a stretch from Tuesday afternoon until Friday night.
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Claims to be a Rails-like framework for PHP.
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I love the double meaning of the museum director's statement: "It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed."
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This is why Firefox waits several seconds before allowing you to install extensions.
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Sounds like the shortstop problem has been solved. Given that, here's how our 2006 squad might compare to 2005.
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My friend Nathan's just released version 0.12 of Ironclad, your one-stop-shop for Common Lisp cryptography.
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At EconLog, Bryan Caplan's written about an interesting study
that compares the think tanks that politicians and the media cite. They find that the major media have citation patterns closer to that of the the typical Democrat than the typical member of Congress.
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Over at normblog, here's an interesting take on Chirac's nuclear declaration. The key bit:
Suppose western intelligence agencies have come to a joint conclusion that there is now a dirty bomb (or something equally scary) out there in the wrong hands, even if they don't know whose hands it is in.
Who would be the best person to get a message across from the west to the terrorists? Chirac is the most anti-US of them all. As Nixon went to China, Chirac can beat his shoe on the table in a unique way.
That no other western leader has batted an eye makes me think he could be talking for all of them. If they continue to let it pass, they are effectively allowing him to speak for them as well, whether by design, or prior unspoken understanding, or not.
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What a beautiful watch. Too bad it's $220,000. That's a bit out of my price range. via boingboing.
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This one's for Bryan: a hockey-plaing, goal-tending bishop.
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Heh: the Waterfall 2006 conference. The choice bits:
- Take Control of Your Team's Decisions NOW! by Ken Schwaber
- Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer by Jim Highsmith
- FIT Testing In When You Can; Otherwise Skip It by Ward Cunningham
- The Glacial Methodology™ Workshop: A Data-Centric Software Development Process by Scott Ambler
- Introduction to Dogmatic Programming by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Dinosaur Strategies: How Data Professionals Can Still Prosper in Modern IT Organizations by Scott Ambler
- Upfront Design: If A Little Is Good, A Lot is Better
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