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by Andrew Sullivan (469) on The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (469) 2 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
Boris Kachka worries about the book publishing industry:Right now, Amazon is making little or nothing on Kindle books. Lay down your $359 and you can get most books for $9.99. Publishers list that same Kindle version for about $17.99, though, and—as with all retailers—charge Amazon roughly half that price for it. Which means that Amazon keeps only a dollar on each book, while the publishers make $9. But Amazon may be offering a sweet deal ...

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"I'm sorry, sir, those cookies are not for you..." (3) share digg
by Ted Neward (16) on Interoperability Happens (16) 2 weeks, 5 days ago permalink
One of the more interesting logistical problems faced by the people who run the Microsoft Conference Center is that several events are often running in parallel, and each has their own catering provisions--one might get snacks, another may have lunch boxes, and others have full buffet, and so on. Of course, each group will want to make sure their food isn't swiped by people at other events with less-appealing food, so staff members at the ...

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Thought for Fri, 12 Sep 2008 (2) share digg
on Buddhist Thought of the Day (11) 3 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche...

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Squeak on the iPhone (4) share digg
by Torsten (2) on The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... (2) 4 weeks ago permalink
John M. McIntosh and Michael Rueger announced the availability of iSqueak - a squeak virtual machine port for the iPhone/Touch.They won the 3rd price (together with Grit Schuster) on his years ESUG Innovation award (read the ESUG paper here).Visit the http://isqueak.org project site and the announcement for more information. According to SqueakNews John is also wants to offer support.James Robertson made a video available through Youtube:

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Copy and paste on the Newton (11) share digg
by Dave Caolo (106) on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (1506) 4 weeks ago permalink
Filed under: Hardware, Portables, iPhone, Apple History While everyone waits for Apple to implement copy and paste on the iPhone (or hacks their own), Newton users have been enjoying it for 15 years.Here's a great video of the just how Apple pulled it off on a previous touch device. Clicking and dragging selects the text, and moving it to the side of the screen sends it to the clipboard, represented by a shortcut. You can ...

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on Quotes of the Day (426) 1 month ago permalink
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

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- DouglasP said: "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
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First Look at Cappuccino and Objective-J (16) share digg
by scott (246) on Theobroma Cacao (4) 1 month ago permalink
You've probably heard of 280 Slides, which is an exceptionally polished Keynote-like presentation app for the web. The creators, 280 North, today published the framework and language used to create it, called Cappuccino and Objective-J, respectively. I only had a few hours to play with both, so keep in mind this is a very early review...

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Paper tigers and hidden dragons » Untangled (35) share digg
by Roy T. Fielding (25) on Planet Intertwingly (8) 1 month ago permalink
One of the sessions that I attended at OSCON was “Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub” by Evan Henshaw-Plath and Kellan Elliott-McCrea. I think you can guess why that made me curious, but it was interesting to see how much that curiosity was shared by the rest of the conference: the room filled up long before the scheduled start. They certainly gave a very entertaining talk and one that spilled over into the ...

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- pmuellr said: Good stuff, but I still think XMPP is interesting enough to have available in our browsers. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!!
- past said: Nice counterpoint on event-based architectures for the web.
- C.M said: Technical and interesting alternative to polling feeds
- Sjoerd Visscher said: Don't know about the images, but I like the rest.
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Biggest So Far (5) share digg
on The Tom Peters Weblog (31) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink
While I plan to retire in the saddle, and no time soon, I have nonetheless provided my most comprehensive "Master Presentation" to date. It is a ten-part offering: Parts 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4/Generic Master Part 2/Leadership Part 3/Talent Part 4/"Value-added Ladder" Part 5/"New" Markets Part 6/"The Equations" Part 7/Implementation Part 8/13 "Guru Gaffes" Part 9/Health"care" Part 10/"The Lists" With luck, it'll all eventually get annotated—in the meantime, you will have to live with my shorthand. ...

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on Quotes of the Day (426) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

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on Quotes of the Day (426) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink
"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."

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Just Fine Being The Bad Guy (1) share digg
1 month, 4 weeks ago permalink
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill Leadership read more

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- DouglasP said: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill Leadership read more

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- DouglasP said: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
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Arlo Guthrie (11) share digg
on Quotes of the Day (426) 2 months, 2 weeks ago permalink
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

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- DouglasP said: "You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
- pestwave said: 没有黑暗怎么知道是光明？
- Derick Valadao said: This is that guy who wrote "Alice's Restaurant" the 18 minute repetitive country song I used to bug Bogdan with :P
- angol said: you can you just wont realize that it isn't
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Turn your iPhone into a wireless drive with DataCase (3) share digg
by Steven Sande (152) on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (1506) 2 months, 3 weeks ago permalink
got it get this...

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Humans are consuming natural resources so quickly that we're running out (3) share digg
by jason@kottke.org (787) on kottke.org (847) 3 months ago permalink
Humans are consuming natural resources so quickly that we're running out of elements. The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and ...

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Bertrand Russell (3) share digg
on Quotes of the Day (426) 3 months ago permalink
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

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- DouglasP said: "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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Freeman Dyson on the average lifespan of a carbon dioxide molecule (1) share digg
by jason@kottke.org (787) on kottke.org (847) 3 months, 1 week ago permalink
Freeman Dyson on the average lifespan of a carbon dioxide molecule in Earth's atmosphere. Roughly, the total atmospheric carbon is eight hundred gigatons and photosynthesis absorbs seventy gigatons of carbon per year, giving a lifetime of about twelve years. This is the average time that a carbon dioxide molecule spends in the atmosphere before it is absorbed by a land plant. I used this lifetime to estimate how long it would take for a major ...

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on Quotes of the Day (426) 3 months, 1 week ago permalink
"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."

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"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

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- DouglasP said: "He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
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