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From Bill Wagner, a blog post that shows a new class he created called the MethodBag, which uses new features in C# 4.0, including the Dynamic object to allow a programmer to dynamically add new methods to an object and invoke them in code without much mess. - Maurice

A great and in-depth glossary of terms used in roasting, grading, and discussing coffee. - Maurice

Information for getting donations from the Washington Redskins for community events. - Maurice

Oh my God. I don't ever want to eat another egg. This is horrible. HORRIBLE. I'm just speechless. - Maurice

Just despicable. - Maurice

As a budding fisherman, and some one who cares about the environment, this depresses me deeply. Part of the joy of fishing is to think that you can eat what you catch. People who think we've got nothing to worry about in the environment have just not been paying attention. - Maurice

Positively awful. - Maurice

You mean the artsy fartsy food distribution company is just exploiting the need of crunchy aesthetic folks to feel good about themselves just to make money? I thought they were giving all their profits to displaced pygmie tribes and compost programs? Next you're going to tell me that some of their executives make 7 figure incomes and own large energy inefficient homes!! Blasphemy sir! - Brian Evans

Not just energy inefficient homes, but the CEO leaves his lights on all the time and his windows open year round because YES, he is cooling the outdoors. And the compost he uses in his backyard? Made of displaced pygmy tribesmen. All true. - Maurice from email

Oh wow. As the husband to a woman who is half-blind, this is amazing news. We've fought to keep her blind eye for this very reason. This gives me new hope. - Maurice

I find this absolutely true. Having a meeting, even a short one, can completely throw off my day. - Maurice

What a disappointing news story. Seriously? Is it that bad to help out those in less affluent communities? - Maurice

In the case of a woman who is unable to breast feed, the family SHOULD be able to deduct the cost of the formula. It's freakishly expensive, and for the mom in this case, her mastectomy made it impossible for her to feed baby. It's a shame the IRS can't have some compassion in this case. - Maurice

The site for an automated build tool that you can script out and will compile and package your applications for you. It's a great tool, and it's worth checking out. - Maurice

Very very cool. Leave it to Google. Of course, the questions that I have, and have not had the time to look at yet, are: Does there need to be a framework on the receiving end that streams in the new assembler diffs? And have they built a framework around this that signs the diffs when sending for verification? - Maurice

In other news, Wimpy was scooped up by SWAT while attending an all-night hamburger tasting event in East London. - Maurice

This all makes me want to never let my kids in Typhoon Lagoon EVER. Damn. - Maurice

Seriously, can this just die? Obama is an American citizen. Even if they put it under glass at the National Archives, people would find some reason to doubt its veracity. LET. IT. GO. - Maurice

I admire his DIY spirit and the desire to save money and gas, but it looks like ass. Of course, now I want to do it to my minivan to save money. - Maurice

Remember kids, only go mushroom hunting if you really know your stuff. Otherwise, you'll probably end up dead. - Maurice

I love FourSquare though it has zero value in Harrisburg as of now, I signed up as a Philly user. It's better than nothing. - Maurice

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities - Maurice

The official twitter stream for Ocean City, Maryland, with deals and news about what's happening in the town. A good way to save money on your next trip. - Maurice

ooh great idea! split in many tiny pieces :) - BEX

it's bound to happen. there are too many disparate pieces in the party: Rockefeller Republicans who favor big social programs, Goldwater Republicans, who want small unobtrusive government, social conservatives who want to use the bully pulpit to expansively mandate a socially conservative agenda. The center cannot hold. They have no more unifying ideology. - Maurice

"Back in June of last year, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the husband/wife team that started Flickr, left Yahoo to pursue other interests. We already know what Fake’s new project is, the just-launched Hunch. Now we know what Butterfield’s new project is. Or, at least, what it’s called: Tiny Speck. [...] So, is there anything to be drawn from this position they’re hiring for? A bit, yes. The position is Creative Production Team Lead. The description says this person will be supporting staff and contractors including “illustrators, along with the occasional writer, animator or sound designer.”" - Urbansheep from Bookmarklet

Someone saying they make a terrible boss doesn't make me particularly comfortable working for them. Does that mean he's too easy going or he's a monster. It's like the people who crave working for celebs just so they can say they work in Hollywood. No thanks. - Maurice

Fascinating reading the comments on that TechCrunch page. Obviously a lot of people don't or can't read, or simply refuse to read things properly. The Chrome OS is built on Linux. All the talk in there about it being useless for anything besides working on the web is nonsense. It's a new shiny Linux so, presumably, there is a whole world full of free Linux applications that will work just as well as they currently do on Ubuntu, without a net connection? Or am I talking complete nonsense? - Gilbert Harding

Reading this article kinda left me pissed, and I wrote one myself. It was quite therapeutic :) http://shiv.me/2009.... - Shivanand Velmurugan

"A 29-year old worker died today when he fell into a giant vat of hot chocolate at a New Jersey factory. Hope someone at the scene had the presence of mind to question the oompah-loompahs." - clarke thomas from Bookmarklet

Poor Augustus Gloop, all he did was stoop, his head for some cocoa, didn't know it's a no-no, and now he's a double-dip scoop - Maurice

What a damn shame. The news isn't about booty, boobie, or beauty. It's about the truth unvarnished and uncovered. No one was watching Edward R. Murrow for his washboard abs. - Maurice

A good quick resource on how to turn on logging for MSI installations to debug them. - Maurice

A quick guide to logging MSI installers so you know what they're doing when they're running. - Maurice

Wow. That is just horrifying. I'm pretty sure my dealership doesn't do these things, especially since they pride themselves on service above and beyond the call of duty, but it makes you wonder... - Maurice