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6th January 2011

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Flickr headed to Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 -- Engadget →

Interesting video showing upcoming apps from Flickr for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7.

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5th July 2010

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www: theoriginofthe<blink>tag →

I am widely credited as the inventor of the tag. For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying. I won’t deny the invention, but there is a bit more to the story than is widely known.

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9th April 2010

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Why does everything suck?: Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad →

If you need to “originally” write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business.

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10th February 2010

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Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com →

Google is basically a world where nerd engineers get turned loose in a Montessori preschool, and they have no idea about user interface design and, frankly, they don’t care.

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26th January 2010

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City of Edmonton Open Data Catalogue →

Wow. The city of Edmonton is making several data sets available using the OData protocol.

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7th January 2010

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« The 232-digit number RSA-768 has been factored! » →

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