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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 BBC News:

"This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas."

at mashable.com — while some of these may be a bit extreme and have arguably very tenable effects on your site's carbon footprint (e.g., going "dark"), looking for eco-friendly web hosting is a good one. I recommend Dreamhost — and you can save yourself a little scratch on the hosting fees with this promo code: FOUNDDRAMA

at NYTimes.com

submission guidelines

OMG awesome.

at threatpost (via B² (via /.))

at Gizmodo (via A.L.)

at International Space Fellowship (via /.)

at sciencedaily.com (via /.)

via GB

at io9 (via B²)

Not sure where the "Webmasters" bit comes in but it's still a decent round-up of some useful graphic/widget generators.

via fogus

at NYTimes.com — news stories like this are always a little weird to read (like after a certain time the killers become historical artifacts instead of suspects)

at Digging into WordPress

at Engadget — so cool

at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion)

via Ajaxian

at Karelia Software (via Gus Mueller) — more about blogging for your company as a marketing apparatus but the underlying bits apply to anything

by Margaret Atwood

at cxpartners (via J.R.)

via John

at NYTimes.com:

As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting around age 3, they will share more generously with a child who was previously nice to them. Another behavior that emerges at the same age is a sense of social norms.

via DF — worth the read, even if only for this line:

I constantly make judgments about whether people I meet are smart, just like I constantly make judgments about whether people I see are attractive.

at dailygalaxy.com

at Charlie's Diary — "…we'd be more realistic if we just ditched the word "ship" entirely from discussions of interstellar travel."

at cbs5.com (via B²) — I wish all news stories were like this. It has everything!

Some linky love for a friend's yoga program down in MD.

at NYTimes.com :

In several e-mail exchanges, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and other scientists discuss gaps in understanding of recent variations in temperature. Skeptic Web sites pointed out one line in particular: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t,” Dr. Trenberth wrote.

Hate to break it to everyone but it's not actually a "travesty", it's just science. For the folks that weren't paying attention in science class, it's called an "experiment" and while it can answer some of your questions, it usually results in more questions, more follow-up research, and more complexity. And if your feelings are hurt by being called "idiots"… well, the only difference between the climate change scientists and the smokestack apologists is that the climatologists tried to keep their name-calling private.

via B² — tremendously cool

Only 100?

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.

short version: I would support this if we did not ONLY emphasize traditional academics; when we're talk about lengthening the school day, let's keep in perspective that kids need to be kids, too—more hours and more days is only part of the answer, we also need to make the experience an enjoyable one (not that 8th grade algebra classes are ever likely to get all that enjoyable…)

via Ajaxian

by John Resig — an old tip? but useful. (and/but OK maybe not actually useful… just a Snow Leopard thing or…?)

via Ajaxian — a little more useful info on using jsc

at Ajaxian — /usr/bin/jsc for me, baby…

at TUAW

at International Space Fellowship (via /.)

at Omnivoracious

on Aptana TV

at Geek & Mild (by Sean Sperte, via DF)