A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain at Princeton University — the real "this is why you're fat": "Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that […]
New Russian botnet tries to kill rival at Network World (via /.) (tagged: spam security network research ) Estimating programming time at ITworld (via /.) (tagged: software programming work ) The government has your baby’s DNA at CNN.com (via /.) (tagged: politics news dna privacy genetics paranoia future research ) Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec […]
Man, 30, gives ‘birth’ to his twin at The Sun (via B²) — HOLY WTF? (tagged: science weird ) The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files via Nettuts+ (tagged: webdev htaccess apache ) Burlington police walk the beat at The Burlington Free Press — I tip my hat to the officers; may this approach grow and […]
Starship Enterprise Destroyed by the Death Star win. (tagged: video StarWars StarTrek humor ) Ween at Waterfront Park (Burlington) on 11 Jul 2009 !?!?!?!? (tagged: burlington Vermont ) Backup your Database in Git (tagged: backup git MySQL founddrama todo ) Guide to Human Types (pt 2) (tagged: art anatomy ) The Star Trek Movie Cheat […]
Burlington Farmers Market starts this Saturday! (tagged: Vermont burlington farm food ) Privacy in the Age of Persistence Bruce Schneier on Security: "Data is the pollution of the information age." (tagged: blog future society security essay ) Five Technologies Tim O’Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 at ReadWriteWeb — all I can say is thank […]
My five Re-Tweets of fame: Re this Tweet 1 which is re this picture: How did I miss all that traffic? Better double-check that the @replies feed is in the ol’ RSS reader… Original picture on Flickr. Twhat? Is it really “Tweet”? Not “Twit”? Or “Twuote”?[↩]
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Great article, even if it glosses over certain things. Especially good in combination with: crisisofcredit.com — that said, I'm still not sure what a "credit default swap" is… (tagged: money economy business math ) Italian Food and Woodworking Does enlightenment bring with it responsibility and obligation? […]
Things 1.0rc now available at TUAW :: featuring a 20% off coupon code (tagged: Things GTD Mac OSX software todo ) Eventually Consistent – Revisited at All Things Distributed (tagged: essay scalability dev work todo ) Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (tagged: via:fogus language brain learning ) Version Control with Subversion (tagged: reference subversion ) Fairpoint Pledges To […]
Top 10 Ways to Lock Down Your Data a Lifehacker Top 10 ( lifehacks tech security ) SnowBan.com Burlington, VT · parking ban info, warnings and history ( Burlington Vermont ) William Gibson’s AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed at Slashdot ( scifi art entertainment ) Extending Reader and Proxy – An Ext Flickr Image Gallery ( […]