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Conan Blowing NBC's Money, Spends $1.5 Million For One Minute Segment (VIDEO) January 21, 2010 – Conan sticks it to NBC by doing a comedy bit with a Bugatti Veyron ($1.0m car) and by playing a clip from the Rolling…
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Chinese Fingerprints Said to Be Found in Google Attacks – NYTimes.com January 20, 2010 – This is pretty exotic stuff. Is the Chinese government really hiring the types of hackers that read Chinese math journals to pursue their electronic espionage?…
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The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 January 19, 2010 – Hillarious Windows 7 bug…
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(Adobe) Flash Gordon! | MetaFilter January 14, 2010 – Flash, implemented in javascript. The mind boggles.
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On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life – This is so Meta January 13, 2010 – Google Wave being put to use in real life. Very cool. Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud…
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This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone January 11, 2010 – Interesting. I always wonder where they get these numbers. Two million (active? de-duped?) flash developers seems like a lot. But the broader…
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xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe January 11, 2010 – A little late night coding humor…
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Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words – #StartupTriplets “Improve employees resumes” January 10, 2010 – Unfortunately pithy advice sort of loses it’s power when you try to cram 50 of them into a single article but this one struck me…
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Kickingbear» Blog Archive » Software Sea Change January 9, 2010 – Interesting thoughts on iPhone app development. Hillariously recalls the hideous stuff we had to see in the 80s from desktop publishing and in the 90s from web publishing before…
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The case of the 500-mile email January 5, 2010 – Totally amazing geeky story of tracking down an impossible bug.
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Rands In Repose: Wanted January 4, 2010 – A great post on hiring. Just like the author, I’ve let a few great ones slip away. His thoughts on “hiring for your career” are spot on. Your professional relationship with those…
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Daring Fireball: The Tablet The way these meetings work, from what I’ve gathered, is as follows. Apple brings no hardware. They bring no software. They show no mockups. They do not even completely acknowledge that they’re making a new device.…