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3 hours ago - pogue.blogs.nytimes.com - Link
Matt Harding discovers hard drive-based camcorder don't work in zero-gravity [via] - Andy Baio
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4 hours ago - valleywag.gawker.com - Link
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance. - Adam Kazwell
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4 hours ago - simonwillison.net - Link
Interesting conversation ongoing. OAuth isn't just about AuthN but AuthZ, the most coarse which would have separated out God privileges (the security breach was from a *staff* account). Also, someone points out that the password anti-pattern combines w/ the same-password anti-pattern for huge id theft potential. On the note about God privileges, this was something that was annoying when we first implemented it for Upcoming, but now I couldn't imagine running admin on a serious site w/o at least 2 layers of security (i.e., admin functionality only available after pw proxying via a secure network) - Leonard
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4 hours ago - flickr.com - Link
the 4chan thread shows how they found the admin interface, password hashes, and finally cracked a user's password - Andy Baio
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PIDA on OS X
6 hours ago - flickr.com - Link
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“Chris is running out of new year's resolutions to break.”
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6 hours ago - bloomberg.com - Link
"German billionaire Adolf Merckle, whose investment company was renegotiating its bank debt, died after he was hit by a train and may have committed suicide, Die Welt reported. Merckle was struck near his hometown of Blaubeuren, southeast of Stuttgart, yesterday evening, the German newspaper said on its Web site today. Police said he may have killed himself, the newspaper said." - Chris White via Bookmarklet
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8 hours ago - rails-oceania.googlecode.com - Link
A (JavaScript) port of the Quicksilver string ranking algorithm - Leonard
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7 hours ago - perspectives.mvdirona.com - Link
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9 hours ago - pida.co.uk - Link
An interesting looking IDE written in PyGTK that adds some IDE wrapping around Vim. This looks pretty promising (installing from MacPorts now) - Leonard
9 hours ago - hawksworx.com - Link
Great writeup/example of writing unobtrusive js/markup using JQuery - Leonard
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9 hours ago - decafbad.com - Link
pretty neato compleato - Leonard
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9 hours ago - blogs.wsj.com - Link
"In a fascinating new paper that Mr. Rogoff presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, they offered some sobering details on what has happened to other countries in the aftermath of severe financial panics like the one the U.S. is now experiencing. Their bottom line: If history is any guide, the housing market might not bottom until 2010, a stock market rebound isn’t in sight, the unemployment rate could exceed 11% and government debt is about to soar" - Chris White via Bookmarklet
10 hours ago - money.cnn.com - Link
"Q. Were you wrong to be so bullish? A. I worked for an association promoting housing, and it was my job to represent their interests. If you look at my actual forecasts, the numbers were right in line with most forecasts. The difference was that I put a positive spin on it. It was easy to do during boom times, harder when times weren't good. I never thought the whole national real estate market would burst." - Chris White via Bookmarklet
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10 hours ago - randomfoo.net - Link
"Oh yeah, to clarify, I had gone ahead and set up UserVoice, and while that sort of functionality is great for sites w/ many users for gathering feedback, I'm not as sure whether that dynamic applies to a small business w/ a limited number of clients. (Probably not)" - Leonard
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Fully Flared Intro - High Definition
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22 hours ago - reuters.com - Link
"He has yet to formally respond to the case against him in court and has been allowed to stay out on bail before trial to the ire of his former investors, who say he should have been jailed immediately after his arrest. Madoff's chief lawyer, Ira Sorkin, has declined to provide any insight into what his client has been doing under house arrest, or about Madoff's physical or mental well-being." - Chris White via Bookmarklet
What's to stop this guy from just taking a bunch of sleeping pills before he goes to trial? - Chris White
He doesn't want to die? - Larry Greenfield
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19 hours ago - scripting.com - Link
We have to believe our customers are the smartest people, because they were smart enough to choose the best product. If they were stupid, then they chose the wrong product and we're dead. The only logical way to proceed is to: 1. Make the best product. 2. Find the smartest customers. 3. Treat them like the geniuses they are. 4. And earn their respect. (Which they never failed to give us, as long as we did 1, 2 and 3.) Further, we don't look for "feedback" from customers, we look to learn from them. Feedback is what you ignore. Learning is how you build. - Adam Kazwell
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VideUhOh: CNBC Asks If Steve Jobs Has PMS
22 hours ago - valleywag.gawker.com - Link
"In an intro to a segment, Power Lunch anchor Dennis Kneale, the BlackBerry-deprived crybaby, asks if Jobs had cancelled his keynote speech at tomorrow's Macworld Expo because of "PMS," alluding to the hormonal imbalance Jobs confessed to this morning in a letter posted on Apple's website." - Chris White via Bookmarklet
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yesterday at 10:38 am - xkcd.com - Link
even Liberia and Myanmar are mostly metric, compared to the U.S. - Andy Baio
it was definitely fuckfuckfuckcold in michigan a couple of weeks ago - Karl Rosaen
a funny coincidence: look at the first result for http://www.google.com/search?h... - Karl Rosaen
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yesterday at 10:33 am - blog.doloreslabs.com - Link
Dolores Labs uses Mechanical Turk to answer the Trolley Problem - Andy Baio
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December 30 at 12:25 pm - niallkennedy.com - Link
as Chris points out, it's still unofficial and URLs may change - Andy Baio
From 2005? - DeWitt Clinton
Argh, read the comments and the dates. I tried playing with that when he wrote it in 2005 and got nowhere. Was able to do some things, but not others. No responses from questions to the google reader google group. Unless there's a change, don't bother. - Karl Anderson
Try using the Ajax Feed API - http://code.google.com/apis/aj.... This has been developed in the years since and provides nearly all of the Reader functionality that Niall was getting at, plus more. - DeWitt Clinton
Would love a way to do things like sync my del.icio.us and Google Reader URLs. Best way I found back then was del.icio.us to OPML and manually importing that in Reader, which kind of sucks. - Karl Anderson
DeWitt- you mean use the Ajax Feed API to re-implement Google Reader? No thanks :) Or do you mean that this API can add and remove feeds from my Google Reader account, similar to what Niall's article suggested that REST API could do? It didn't look like that from skimming the docs. - Karl Anderson
Oh, I meant for reading and discovering feeds, which was one of the things Niall uncovered with the Reader JS api. That functionality is now officially supported with the Ajax Feed API. I don't believe there is an official API for subscribing/unsubscribing yet. - DeWitt Clinton
The down side to the ajax feed api is that (to my knowledge) it doesn't allow you to get to reader's cached list, which ones you have or haven't read yet, or your existing feed list. I'm pretty sure there's an undocumented json api that reader uses, but I think it's about as stable as gmail's internal json api (i.e., not very). - Joel Webber
Our JSON API has been pretty stable, there's a few iPhone apps (e.g. Byline) and desktop clients (Feedly, ReadAir) that use it unofficially. Cleaning it up for official release is on our todo list. It's been there for three years, but it's still there. BTW, http://code.google.com/p/pyrfe... is a more recent set of unofficial docs than Niall's blog post. - Mihai Parparita
Sorry about that everyone, this popped up in my Google Reader and I didn't notice the year. Thanks for the update, Mihai. - Andy Baio
TGDaily has picked this story up as new, but didn't link because they noticed the year. Pretty lame. - Tom
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