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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Friday, June 24)
Clear Channel Radio Goes Podcast Happy
Radio giant Clear Channel Radio seems ready to fully embrace the podcast revolution as today they announced they were setting up multiple podcasts tied to various stations across their empire. This greater rollout is based on the successful podcast debut of WHTZ-FM Z100's 'Phone Tap� which received over 20,500 accesses over a two week period.
Radio is swiftly dying. They hold no more control except in automobiles (which is changing also). I think clear channel's decision to start doing podcasts is a clear sign that they realize this too, altough it may be too little too late. I am loving every minute.
The Lines of Journalism and who are journalists is blurring. I am loving it although there is a question of who is authority (the site with news that quotes?, or the site with news that answers?).
Everyone has an outlet as a journalist.
Everyone has an outlet as a Broadcaster.
With the advent of higher broadband across a greater population could this be the blurring point of what is "broadcast" television.
The whole media landscape is changing, atleast for the way I view it. I don't know if it is all for the better, but someone is going to have to capitilize on the payment systems for all these new delivery mechanisms. I think within the next 5 years, all iPod-ish portable music/video/cell phones/pdas will be always connected (spread of wifi/G3 proliferation). Will this be the point at which people capitlize on streaming as opposed to on-media audio? Is this going to be the point at which someone has iintervene and explain?, or will people still understand that they dont want to rent audio (or video) via streaming, that they want to have it localized and available at all times. Will we always have to be connected to have access to what we pay for? It is a big shift in what people are willing to pay for i just hope people understand what they are agreeing to. They already are starting to rent and not own. I personally think centralization is the answer and everyone should be able to stream to themselves anywhere where ever they are. Thats why I think this may be a killer idea.
Clear Channel Radio Goes Podcast Happy - Portable Media News - Designtechnica
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