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Witty analysis of 'climate-gate'. Bonus points for the use of "pant-shitting". Via JT. - Dan F

Interesting. I wonder how long before lots of people are actually using this? Via JT. - Dan F

"If the planes rotate positions so each one spends time in the favorable spots, the team found that the planes could shave 15 percent from both fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, while trimming a quarter from nitrogen oxide output." I wonder how hard this is to implement. People have been working on fuel efficiency of planes for a long time. Saving so much fuel would be a big deal. Via Matt. - Dan F

Congratulations to my friends at Groups! This is huge! - Dan F

A pleasant wtf programming story. Via Matt. - Dan F

Can trades every 3 to 5 seconds possibly have benefit to society? - Dan F

It would take some chutzpah to compete with Google in search. - Dan F

A real website on Lift in Scala. - Dan F

Rigorous findings about gathering data with Amazon Mechanical Turk. - Dan F

Yikes! Via JT. - Dan F

Hmmph. What regular person can keep up with all of this? - Dan F

Cool! Many many web users are (unknowingly) hitting pages with Google Analytics, and now those pages will load faster (after developers rewrite the page code). Via Matt and Seattle John. - Dan F

This made M uncomfortable due to the fellow making moves on a dog. - Dan F

Hmm, darn. I had heard some people pretty positive on Android at MinneBar as an up-and-comer. - Dan F

A few numbers for what gets retweeted: things with links, nouns, unusual things, complex things (!), reaching out to readers ("you"). - Dan F

WOW. Dramatic story of the risks of trying to bring something to market. Via JT. - Dan F

Stonebreaker claims one can get huge performance without sacrificing ACID or SQL. He's a smart guy, but this particular column is not hugely convincing. Via Kurt. - Dan F

One visit to China by Obama would produce lots of concrete results so fast? Via Don. - Dan F

Erk. Be careful with negative feedback mechanisms. Via Seattle John. - Dan F

Great, yet another bit of science run amok. Via Dono. - Dan F

Wow, dramatic indeed. The pilot flies off with a nuclear bomb, tries to hurl it, the mechanism doesn't work, and he brings it back to base! 10,000 people run underground in case he explodes upon landing. Via Shanghai Don. - Dan F

I feel odd sharing my own writing, but I am trying to get used to occasional blatant self-promotion. I will quote Max: "This is the first post from our new blog about decision making and brainstorming. Please subscribe!" - Dan F

I've been a member of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group which champions fiscal responsibility, since the mid 90s. It has been downhill and accelerating the whole way. This is a top 3 issue. If we have money, we will be able to do a lot of great things; if we don't, we won't be able to do anything after awhile. - Dan F

Interesting analysis of Iraq situation, with enough internal lingo that I barely understand it. - Dan F

If Horava turns out to even have a partial answer, this is a revolution. Via John & JT. - Dan F

Seems interesting for those who do mobile apps. Via Tom. - Dan F