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• Strip Mining the Authors
  The Passive Voice; filed under: "some of the reasons that I'm taking a serious look at self-publishing."
  (tagged: writing publishing )
• Swagger
  "A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON"
  (tagged: api documentation framework development generator work )
• About Pepper Spray
  At Scientific American Blog Network — short version: so-called "pepper spray" is not just painful, but extremely dangerous; we need to re-think its widespread and cavalier deployment now, before something worse happens.
  (tagged: capsicum pepper spray OWS science )
• Caching and the Google AJAX Libraries
  By Steve Webster, writing at statichtml.com; some valuable point to consider in here. Not mentioned in the discussion is any potential benefits from using Google's edge-caching (i.e., as opposed to serving from "deep within" your own hosting service) — but all things considered, if that is a serious benefit to you, then you are probably not the target audience of the article.
  (tagged: javascript performance google )
• How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
  It's long but… required reading. Take your time though, lest your blood boil out through your eyeballs.
  (tagged: politics republicans taxes economy gop government essay )

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