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- Code
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Inside look at Google. # Interesting insights into the life of an engineer.
Painless Software Schedules. # Practical methods for estimating and executing programming deadlines.
- Culture
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Science and the Media. # An analysis of how the media distorts and abuses science.
Advice for college freshmen. # Annie, this one's for you.
Hunting for the earliest citations of "sci-fi" words. On that note, "sci fi" was first coined by Robert Heinlein.
- Design
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More on Hedcuts. # The process is involved, and has not been reduced to a photoshop action.
Hedcut portrait artist Noli Novak. # The famous stipple portraits of the Wall Street Journal are called hedcuts. Here's one WSJ artist's portfolio.
- Humor
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This is a funny—and very true—article.
Ipod Packaging a la Microsoft. #
- Mac
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A new widget has been created that displays your most recent textmate projects, and here is how to always make your widgets show up on your Desktop.
This is a great new bundle that demonstrates the power of TextMate. I think I just found my replacement to ecto.
NeoOffice. # OpenOffice for OSX. I can't tell you how excited I will be when I don't have to buy anything from the Microsoft behemoth.
- Miscellany
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Words with two opposite meanings. Buckle means both to tie together and to fall apart.
The YouTube Sports Hall of Fame. #
Nice collection of YouTube gems.
How to disappear without a trace. # This is an absolutely fascinating article on how to disappear in America without leaving a trace. Great information I have never heard, and hope never to have to use.
- News
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The Chronicles of Narnia. # *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's* first teaser trailer is out, and it looks **very good**. Coming out this Christmas.
Why Disney Is Destroying Barbie. # I'll start Christmas shopping for my daughter now.
A lengthy and good article.
- Oddball
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Titles of Sermons to Which Congregants Might Actually Pay Attention. # How Much Good Would the Good Book Book If the Good Book Could Book Good?
Flying Cars Ready To Take Off. #
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29 # Bill by the Idaho legislature praising Napoleon Dynamite creators Jared and Jerusha Hess.
- PHP
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Oberkampf. # Flickr Tools for local custom galleries.
A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP with tips and methodologies. #
- Politick
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On Bullshit. # Frankfurt's book reveals "a fundamental insight... that the defining characteristic of bullshit is not that the bullshitter is lying, an act that requires the perpetrator to know the truth in the first place, but that the bullshitter doesn't care one way or the other." Excellent.
New Yorkers' Problem with the Iraqi Elections. # ...my disingenuousness alarm went off. When people are deeply invested in any set of analyses and predictions, do they ever sincerely hope they’re wrong?
The fear myth. # In America, self-styled progressives look ever more the party of the past, and confessed conservatives are the ones focusing on the future.
- Resource
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A great article by Ben Stein on getting ahead in your career.
How to Whistle. # By MetaFilter.
- Tech
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Negotiating Major Discounts on Dell Products. # A former Dell salesman explains the ins and outs of the "best deal." Short summary: call in. 20-30% discounts are just around the corner.
- Web Development
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PubSub. # An interesting aggregating tool. I don't know how well it works yet, though.
Cracking the Google Code. # This article discusses the new methodologies and practices Google is implementing in their search crawler based on analysis of their recent patents.