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Damn Interesting » The Pit of Life and Death
(tags: biology environment toxic extremophiles)

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Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : PAWS Marketplace - A Rails Marketplace Application in the Cloud
(tags: ec2 rubyonrails aws s3 simpledb amazon)

Philadelphia Bicycle News: How to install your own bike rack in Philadelphia
(tags: bikes philadelphia bar via.FarMcKon)

Josh Harris: “Pseudo was a fake company.” - Boing Boing
(tags: art bubble business investment venturecapital pseudo)

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Scientist at Work - David Pritchard - Scientist Studies Whether Hookworms Can Protect Against Allergies - NYTimes.com
wow
(tags: science immunity selfexperimentation medicine)

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How Twitter Will be Worth $1.5 Billion by Next Year
Interesting idea… I never did follow up on ioubeer integration
(tags: twitter business)

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Dissecting today’s Internet traffic spikes - Esoteric Curio
(tags: analysis network planning scalability)

Amazon.com: “Revolutions and State Collapse”
(tags: society revolution reading list via.philgyford)

Liz Phair on ‘Guyville’ and the Secret to a Successful Topless Photo Shoot — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
(tags: lizphair exileinguyville)

Eco-Nightclub Launches: Dancers Generate Electricity : Environmental News Blog [...]

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Charles Manson, Dennis Wilson, Manson Murders, Laurel Canyon: Charles Manson: When I Get to the Bottom - Feature Story - Crawdaddy!
The Lie album holds up pretty well. I’ve had it since 10th grade and some of the songs are still in a bunch of my playlists.
(tags: manson music beachboys via.jaycaddle)

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10 Biggest Parties Around the World
(tags: travel party festivals events)

State of the Art - Don’t Know Where You Are? Your Camera Can Tell You - NYTimes.com
(tags: geotagging photography wifi technology skyhook)

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could not find any strategy named `checkout’ - Capistrano | Google Groups
There seems to be a problem with the permissions in the 2.4.0 capistrano gem. Fixing the permissions in the capistrano lib directory resolved the issue for me.

(tags: capistrano 2.4.0 deployment)

Rands In Repose: The Coffee Mug Affair
(tags: rands coffee products)

Hal Higdon
I don’t know that I’ll [...]

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Typos a la Carte, Ever A Specialty of the House - washingtonpost.com
I’ve had proofreading dreams where everything’s misspelled, but I’m the only one who notices.
(tags: language restaurant grammar)

What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer - NYTimes.com
(tags: google obscenity community standards)

Th!nk Ox: An Electric Car With Style and Smarts : Gas 2.0
(tags: electric energy car)

The Sopranos: [...]

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Three types of shirts
(tags: shirts)

Read at Work
(tags: books literature fun cool work read via.vsl)

The most unfair thing about life…
R.I.P.
(tags: awesome fun quotes life carlin)

Intridea - SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The Subdomain
(tags: rubyonrails subdomains plugins)

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