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Right Person Right Place Edward Tufte appointed by President Obama

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HTML5 Keygen Element - What is it for?

I have been reading the recently released HTML5 docs, and I came across the keygen element.

Ping attribute in HTML5; will fix some peoples need for short urls

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I am using a new font for titles it's called chunk

Sweet new font From the great people at The League Of Moveable Type

Am I missing something, or is Feedly just pretty?

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Launching ExplainThis.org - I helped develop the code

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Please Help Me Get My Kid's Photo In An Art Gallery

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BlakRoc - The Black Keys Make A Rap Album

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Amazon.com: SMK-Link VP4910 RemotePoint Jade Presentation Remote: Electronics

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hmm, looking for good presentation remotes. Anyone have something they like?
From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer The RemotePoint Jade is a fully programmable presentation remote control that offers a bright green laser with 150 feet of wireless range for Mac and PC.

Python programming language

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#backoftheNapkin: Ohloh.net estimates python, the language, would take 437 man years, and 23 mil. to create.
Python is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of better code.

Effort (est.) 429 Person Years

Avg. Salary 55,000

[Startup News] JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More

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Breakdown of node.js; awesome. Reason one on a laptop 6500 requests per second. That's a JS webserver for you.
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[The Daily Dish] The Online Senate

Eric Lawrence, John Sides, and Henry Farrell have put out a new study: We examine deliberation, polarization, and political participation among blog readers.We find that blog readers gravitate toward blogs that accord with their political beliefs. Few read blogs on both the left and right of the ideological spectrum. Furthermore, those who read left-wing blogs and those who read right-wing blogs are ideologically far apart.

[Hacker News] We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die

Toxic assets — home mortgages packaged into complicated bonds that no one wanted to touch when the housing bubble collapsed — are starting to trade again. Planet Money wanted to figure out how this chapter of financial history will end. So we decided to buy a toxic asset of our own.Toxic Asset IntroductionToxic Asset Introduction]