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“He could barely hear them over the colors and shapes of the room. “…a new vision thanks to sight based on”"
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It’s Strong Bad’s intro to technology!
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Wherein Strong Bad narrates every day lives as movies
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“Clearbits is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing.”
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“JS is talking about what they’ve learned in building del.icio.us”
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“Ok, a quick way of collecting a list of resources is to use del.cio.us through its bookmarklet. So I’ll find a few feeds (the feeds, not the blogs) and tag them “readinglist”.”
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“One fun remark: avoid using “SOAP, Corba or something insane” for your API - del.icio.us doesn’t even use REST, Schachter said, but rather POX - plain old XML. His logic is that simple APIs are available to a larger subset of developers - why limit your
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“…one of the issues that consistently draws the most folks here is anything that helps them deal with email.”
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“Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing.”
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“We need new paradigms for following what’s happening in the blogosphere.”
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“The workshop aims to bring together developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages.”
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“Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not
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“George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agenc
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“I heard the refs were paid off by … Gay Democrats? I don’t know. Who do we not like?”
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“Awhile ago it dawned on me that JSON bears more than a passing resemblance to old-school NeXT plists, and that it would be pretty natural to write an NSDictionary category that could deserialize a JSON string into a Cocoa object graph.”
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“…since JSON is basically a series of key-value pairs, it would be a good match for NSDictionary - and it should be easy to create a dictionary out of a JSON string.”
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“Blake Seely released some code yesterday to convert Cocoa datatypes to JSON. I’ve had similar code that Ive been meaning to put online for a while now. So now the world has gone from zero to two Cocoa code-bases to read/write JSON.”
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“This post discusses how to use Cocoa to communicate with Turbogears powered web-applications.”
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“With no fanfare at all, Google has created a universal login for anyone who wants to use it.”
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“At this point, I can’t even imagine what life would be like if I didn’t spend every weekend doing research and writing. I mean, I do something book-related almost every day, so it’s completely sewn into the fabric of my life.”
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“Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset.”
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“this week I figured I’d balance things out by talking about someone I admire greatly: Steve Wozniak.”
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Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
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