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Friday, May 11th, 2007

The Power and Glory of the Five-Second Rule: How the World Works
Andrew Leonard’s delightful rant on bacteria, parenting, decision-making and risk
shaver — the high cost of some free tools
Mozilla developer rants persuasively against Silverlight, Apollo, etc. Think of “view source” as your “is this the Web?” query tool
Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion - New York Times
Eta Carinae — “troubled and enigmatic star could blow up sooner than thought” — science coverage or gossip column?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

fortuitous
Matt Haughey’s new blog: weekly essays about running business (and life?) exclusively online…
Magazine Learns to Heed Its Own Advice - New York Times
Business 2.0 issue nearly felled by system crash and failed backup.

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

How Would You Know if The Economy Was Working? | TPMCafe
My friend Bill McKibben is blogging at TPM this week about his new book, “Deep Economy.” Much wisdom about our addiction to economic growth and alternative measurements of collective happiness.
Who’s got the tag? Database truth versus file truth, part 3 | Jon Udell
Great post about photo tagging a la OS X and Vista: “people don’t really want choice, they want things to Just Work, and they’d like technology to divine what Just Work means to them, which it can’t.”
WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software
Distraction-free word processing (for Mac). No buttons! No menus! No window bars! It’s, um, just like WordPerfect, almost…

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

rc3.org: How programming is like golf
“No matter how easy it is to get close to the hole, you have to make those seemingly easy putts in order to finish, and the small bits at the end can wind up costing you just as much as the big chunks of progress did early in the project.” Or: First you do the first 80 percent, then you do the second 80 percent…
Papers’ Web Hopes Dim a Bit - WSJ.com
“Roughly 70% to 80% of [newspapers'] online revenue is tied to a classified ad sold in the print edition.” If true, yikes: classified is going online anyway…