Obama Phone! (8)
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If you haven’t heard about this yet, the Obama campaign today released an iPhone app that, among other features, enables you to call your friends prioritized by their location in battleground states. This is critical. There’s nothing more important, or more influential, than friends encouraging friends to vote, and when it comes to getting informed on the issues and what’s at stake, nothing is more effective than getting an impassioned plea from a personal contact ...
The Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game (3)
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If you're like us, you already started drinking weeks ago in preparation for tomorrow night's debate, which will no doubt be the most watched vice presidential debate in the history of televised vice presidential debates. But if you're waiting till Gwen Ifill officially gets the party started, we've got something for ya. The rules are simple: each of these is to be accompanied by a shot of any neutral grain spirit you can get your ...
The world's greatest greasy hair pomade (4)
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My dear old friend Dan Kimball (we played in a band together in Colorado and London) has one of the best hairstyles I've had the pleasure to know. Over the years Dan has refined his pompadour to the point that it is now a flawless exemplar of rockabilly style. When Dan talks about hair grease, you should pay attention. Recently, he stunned the readers of his blog by announcing he'd switched pomades. After 12 years, ...
Jesse Noller: Python 2.6 is released, some highlights (5)
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Well, it's final boys and girls. Python 2.6 is final and up on the site. A whole lot of people put a ton of work into this release - Python 3.0rc2 will be out shortly, but the dev team made the decision to focus on 2.6 so we could all get it buttoned up and out in the wild. You should read "What's new in Python" - it highlight what changed, and the sheer amount ...
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Thomas Stromberg said:
multiprocessing is cool and all, but the UNIX implementation doesn't seem well supported outside of Linux (and possibly Mac OS X). meh.
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Chagel said:
下载：http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/what's new: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html259 patches applied and 612 bugs fixed，最终只是一个过渡到3.0的产品。
Netflix Streaming Coming Soon to Macs. [NetFlix] (35)
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Amongst all the other news out of Netflix lately (content from Starz/Warner Bros., new API), a late-night blog post announces that Macs will get streaming movies-on-demand "by the end of the year." No word yet on Firefox compatability. [via]
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Derek said:
Excellent! Quickly, Netflix!
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Dan said:
About effin time.
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Bill said:
niiiice.
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Ortelius said:
Now I will have one less reason to keep a Windows partition on my MBP
Urinary tract wallpaper (10)
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California artist Shannon Wright designed this wallpaper showing "exuberantly healthy human urinary tracts." Pleasing color combination! Urinary tract wallpaper
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Penny said:
my kidneys and their resident stones like this. ;)
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E_Miller said:
Shannon is internetfamous!
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Carrie Jaeger said:
California artist Shannon Wright designed this wallpaper showing "exuberantly healthy human urinary tracts." Pleasing color combination!
Kevin Mitnick detained, released after Colombia trip (27)
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Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick was detained U.S. customs agent when his plane from Colombia landed in Atlanta on September 16. He was questioned for four hours and released. CNet has a pretty detailed account of what happened, but the most interesting part of the story, to me, was the list of stuff the authorities found in his luggage. In his luggage, they found a MacBook Pro, a Dell XPS M1210 laptop, an Asus 900 mini-laptop, ...
Anti-Smoking Gets Graphic (3)
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Here's some good news for people trying to quit smoking. Starting Wednesday in Britain, cigarette boxes will feature printed images on the packets showing just how gruesome and harmful smoking can be. The pictures will show cancerous lungs and throats, as well as yellow teeth and other side effects. They'll also feature new warning slogans, such as "Smoking can cause a slow and painful death" or "Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and ...
Saving electricity one data center at a time (28)
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Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. That's why, nearly a decade ago, we started work to optimize the energy efficiency of our servers and later set out to build the most environmentally sustainable data centers possible. We now believe that Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the ...
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Steve said:
some mind-boggling stats in this one
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Steve said:
Energy costs must a large part of Google's costs, but it's good that they are saving where they can regardless of that.
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blogan said:
Laptops aren't the only computers where power consumption is important. Just ask Google.
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Reid said:
incredible
Hammerhead: moving performance testing upstream (11)
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Today at The Ajax Experience, I released Hammerhead, a Firebug extension for measuring page load times. Improving performance starts with metrics. How long does it take for the page to load? Seems like a simple question to answer, but gathering accurate measurements can be a challenge. In my experience, performance metrics exist at four stages along the development process. real user data – I love real user metrics. JavaScript frameworks like Jiffy measure page load ...
Recycled Car Hood Tables by Joel Hester (4)
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Who would have thought that something as junky as an old rusty car hood could be transformed into a sleek and desirable coffee table? Well, Joel Hester did. He is definitely a modern steel furniture master with an environmentally conscious approach to design. No two cars age and rust quite the same way so his tables are unique with their distinctive mottled effects. The before and after photos show how startling the transformation can be ...
Netflix To Open API and Databases To The Public [NetFlix] (14)
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Netflix will introduce their API to the public tomorrow at the Experience AJAX conference, and according to ReadWriteWeb, it will allow free access to movie data and stats stored on their servers. This doesn't mean that anyone will be able to write a streaming video app for any random piece of open hardware. However, it does mean that people will be able to to integrate movie info (ratings, related films, etc.) into widgets, like the ...
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Abhishek said:
an all-encompassing, movie-researching, queue-reordering iphone app is happening this weekend. i'll make millions.
Pandora and Other Webcasters Saved By Act of Congress [Web Radio] (16)
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Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry's SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that's a mouthful—what it means is, they will likely not be driven to bankruptcy due to unreasonable royalty rates. I say "likely" because they still need to dot i's and cross t's on the ...
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Bill said:
HA! The RIAA can kiss our respective rear-ends.
Hubble Telescope Communication Breaks Down, Plot Thickens [Space] (3)
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The complicated Hubble repair and upgrade mission scheduled for October 14th just got even more complicated: Last Saturday, the Hubble's command and data-handling system broke down, rendering it unable to capture and transmit images to Earth. And while Nasa doesn't know what the heck has happened—I'm thinking a bunch of aliens angry with this galactic Peeping Tom—they are actually happy this has occurred now, according to NASA's science chief, Ed Weiler: Think about if this ...
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