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at NYTimes.com — $300 911 calls and:

C-Span is just ESPN with only two teams.

at I Am Bored (via DF) — holy WTF

at Recipezaar

at Network World (via /.)

at ITworld (via /.)

at CNN.com (via /.)

Bring it.

Audi parts 1-800-All-Audi — I'm told this is the best place for deals on Audi parts.

at Julien Lecomte's Blog (referenced in Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers)

via Slashdot:

Ten of Wakefield's 13 co-authors renounced the study's conclusions several years ago and The Lancet has previously said it should never have published the research.

Though the retraction is a bit of a vindication, the unfortunate truth is that the damage is done and people like Jenny McCarthy will beat this drum until the sky splits open.

at 0×1fff — quite a few things to check out here…

by Paul Krugman at NYTimes.com (via lawnczar)

at The Endeavour (via /.):

A more accurate image [of a good programmer] would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”

at Mark on WordPress

at Information Is Beautiful (via DF) — good because it's fair; great because it's easy to parse both sides

at threatpost (via B² (via /.))

at Gizmodo (via A.L.)

at International Space Fellowship (via /.)

at sciencedaily.com (via /.)

via GB

at The Oatmeal — I love this design.

short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together (it's part of the reason I don't carry cash?)

a Slashdot News Story — I found out about this years ago and have been telling it to damn near everyone. And no one believes me. Even a few native Vermonters. Not that I'm relying on /. to up my credibility but still—thanks for backing me up, CmdrTaco.

Perhaps a bit meta but to sum up: this is a good, paradigmatic microcosm of where I think the Android is currently "going wrong". And let's not get me wrong: I wish Android nothing but success—I want it to be as hugely popular/successful a platform as the iPhone. But this is a worrying trend, don't you think? I could link back to Gruber linking back to someone else again here: when we talk about mobile decides—especially mobile "touch" devices—we're talking about how badly there needs to be a common interface language that is not "owned" by any singular entity. Tapping, dragging, pinch-to-zoom, etc. That needs to be taken as the de facto way to interact (and that's just talking about ONE FACET of the the user-input aspect of this discussion). I think it's inevitable that these things will work themselves out (and quickly) over the next couple months and then developers on the non-dominant platforms will be playing a game of "refactor-or-perish".

at Ransom Note Typography (via DF)

at Ars Technica — possibly the worst, most mis-leading graph of all time but if those numbers are accurate, at least the conclusions are great news

at Scientific American (via /.):

In 2003 Douglas Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, noticed a diffuse haze toward the center of the galaxy in microwave data collected by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). There are only a handful of processes that yield microwaves in the interstellar medium, Finkbeiner explains, and when he subtracted templates for those processes from the WMAP data, something curious remained. "If our model [for microwave production] were correct, we would have random noise left over," Finkbeiner says. "Instead, we see a pattern, an excess of microwaves in the inner galaxy."

via @johnjosephadams

at Google Code:

The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library.

at Magic Scaling Sprinkles (via DF) — discussing "the heap problem"

at Sunlight Labs (via DF):

Here's a hint– if the data format has an ® by its name, it probably isn't great for transparency or open data.

Against my better judgment, I'm going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. And I'm using the special trial version of Scrivener to do it.

at New Scientist (via B²)

at Information Is Beautiful (via B²) — interesting representation

at Coding Horror

Awesome. A.: Ben is right, this needs to be the cake at our 2nd wedding.

Fun for 5 minutes worth of laughter.

About damn time.

at Media Matters Action Network — I'm all for 1st Amendment free speech and having a little fun with the rhetoric but I agree that the violent overtones have gone too far. (Bachmann with the trifecta!) See also: how many Republican Senators would support a corporation over a rape victim? (Answer: 30, including the GOP's presidential nominee in '08!)

by John Gruber — sounds like my mom…

at rogerebert.com (via DF)

via /. — E. coli evolution FTW!

Another one via DF (at NYTimes.com):

“Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our guys could have invented, say, credit default swaps? Give me a break! They couldn’t have done the math.”

Fucking smart guys…

at NYTimes.com by Garrison Keillor (via DF):

…and here sit the 28 percent of the American people who still thought Mr. Bush was doing a heckuva job at the end, gnashing their teeth, hoping and praying for something horrible to happen such as an infestation of locusts or the disappearance of the sun, something to make the president look bad, which is not a good place for a political party to be, hoping for the country to slide into chaos. When you bet against America, you are choosing long odds.

via John — just frickin' awesome (but still doesn't beat "CAN I HAVE A MOUNTAIN DEEEEEEEEW?")