May 2010
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Prez is a pro at calling people out: “I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter,” the president said after meeting with Cabinet members to discuss the situation. “You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The...
May 14th
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Listensongsthataregood: Aaron Neville - Tell It Like...
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China: School killer in property dispute →
Look at the timeline on the left… there have been six separate attacks on schoolchildren around the country since 23 March. From the 30 April attack: “A farmer enters a village school in Shandong province and attacks preschool students with a hammer, causing head injuries. He then sets himself on fire, killing himself.” OMG.
May 14th
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Stephen’s Sound Advice on the SATs. “We all know essay writing is useless. If you don’t believe me, ask your waiter about his English degree.”
May 13th
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May 7th
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May 4th
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Conan’s 60 Minutes Interview. It’s a relief to see him clearing the air a little bit after the debacle from earlier this year. Leaving the Tonight Show was an awesome thing for Conan to do. The corporate, lowest-common-denominator attitude exhibited by NBC clearly isn’t ideal for someone in Conan’s wheelhouse. While it’s upsetting that NBC put the show’s...
May 4th
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A Brief Comparison of Google Maps, Bing Maps, &... →
41latitude: “Herein lies the problem with Yahoo! Maps: the designers focused too much on “decorating” and not enough on “communicating”. For example, it seems that making the highways look attractive was a far greater priority than simply making New York City’s city label legible. Or look at the city “dots” used on Yahoo! Maps: the focus was clearly on making pretty-looking city “dots”,...
May 3rd
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MapBox →
I so want to try out MapBox’s offerings. They provide geospatial datasets as Amazon EBS volumes that you can mount on EC2, an awesome way to source free data for access in your applications. They currently have snapshots of the OpenStreetMap Planet database, US Census TIGER/line data, and NASA’s CGIAR Worldwide DEM. Even though mapping toolkits like Mapnik, Tilecache, and...
May 3rd
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