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Why I Love Twitter | O'Reilly Radar →

This post is much-linked, and usually I’d put it on delicious, but I’m going to dump in some big quotes and vaguely organised thoughts that, even with the new 1000 character limit over there, would probably be a bit much. Twitter is user-extensible.The @syntax for referring to users, hashtags, and whatever you call the use of $ as a special symbol for reference to financial...

Nov 30th

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Nov 28th

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QC: Suffer for your Art →

If the US ever gets a decent healthcare system, writers will need a whole stack of new plot devices.

Nov 28th

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Nov 27th

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Randumbly

adv: stupid and unexpected. … annoyingly, I don’t seem to be the first to think of this. The millions I could have earnt in word royalties! Oh well.

Nov 26th

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Nov 26th

Nov 24th

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Watch

Moving Walkway, via .tiff.

Nov 22nd

Nov 21st

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“You only have to look at Michael Jackson to realise it’s probably best to...”

– Rob Swainson, quoted in this BBC News Magazine story about a model with no belly button.

Nov 20th

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Reheated Outrage

Doing the rounds today: Rails commit 22af66c…: Added Array#second through Array#tenth as aliases for Array#[1] through Array#[9] [DHH] which prompts some commentary: jcnetdev about 9 hours ago Really? Seriously? bdude about 6 hours ago I must admit, I think this is a pretty unuseful change. The thing I noticed is that the patch was applied in June, yet the commentary starts just...

Nov 18th

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Nov 17th

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Nov 17th

The Wired Past/Future

Phil Gyford has been uploading old Wired UK covers to Flickr today. Wired US, of course, has complete archives online, but the UK spinoff isn’t quite as well served. Thankfully, Yoz Grahame has all the UK-specific articles, and now Phil’s covers are preserved along with them. However, it’s the US content that I’ve been looking at today. Here’s Steve Jobs, in Wired...

Nov 17th

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Nov 16th

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Nov 16th

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Nov 15th

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Watch

Lovely escalator video by Heather Champ.

Nov 15th

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iPod nano and Cover Flow

Two weeks ago, candace regretfully replaced a second generation iPod nano with a fourth generation model, twice the size. I say regretfully because it was a forced migration, and because the fourth gen nano had an unfortunate flaw. Until recently, you could put any pre-touch iPod into a pocket and use it without looking at it. Admittedly, some models made this easier than others: I loved my...

Nov 14th

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