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Human beings need to understand one another in terms of primordial intimacies because man has no other tools for understanding the solicitations of man. But if the size of the world no is on longer amenable to intimacy technologies, then mankind must invent information technologies that rehumanize the world. - Beau Dacious

Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing a novel considerably easier and arguably more enjoyable. Here is a toolkit for using the web to write a book. If you know of any other great applications useful to aspiring writers, please leave them in the comments. - Beau Dacious

At last year's conference, Seth gave an inspiring talk on the title of "Why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department". Make sure you watch it until the end, where he gives a preview of his (then upcoming) Tribes talk. - Beau Dacious

Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages. - Beau Dacious

Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. - Beau Dacious

The Restful module provides support for creating applications using the Kohana 2.x framework that conform to the RESTful design pattern. This allows detection of the requested response format and handling of the four natural RESTful states, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. (Note: PUT and DELETE are not fully supported yet by PHP and Browsers) - Beau Dacious

While you’re hopefully already familiar with how great local branches are with Git, you might not know that you can connect local branches to remote branches in your Subversion repository. This allows those of us who are using Git locally to work against Subversion branches. - Beau Dacious

Now we have Apache installed and running, we can configure it to serve multiple domains using Virtual Hosts. - Beau Dacious

I lead a group of technically and intellectually gifted managers. Although I appreciate their brilliance, their need to constantly display this brilliance can be annoying. Any suggestions? One of the classic interpersonal challenges I see in brilliant, technically gifted people is their desire to "add value," especially to other people's ideas. - Beau Dacious

Future cars from the future, for you now in the present today. - Beau Dacious

Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States - to New York City for the first time in 2009. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 - Beau Dacious

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Don't waste your afternoon drawing UML Sequence Diagrams. Just enter the description here, and click "draw". The SD/MSC Generator is an easy alternative to using mouse-centric tools like Microsoft Visio. - Beau Dacious

But I have to question the culture that maintains it’s better to work more hours instead of just doing better work to begin with. I’d rather view this as a sometimes necessary compromise instead of the norm. And managers have to understand there is no linear relationship between man hours and creativity, in fact there may even be an inverse relationship. - Beau Dacious

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Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call Twitterspeak. - Beau Dacious

OMG I just watched this like 50 times. - Beau Dacious

BackType is a conversational search engine. We index and connect millions of conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media so people can find, follow and share comments. - Beau Dacious

Welcome to GrokFood, the easiest, most comprehensive online food additives database. In this site, you will find complete information about: * All chemicals added to food in the United States, including full text of federal regulations governing their use * Additives codified under the International Numbering System, a joint FAO/WHO initiative - Beau Dacious

Simply put, Kohana has impressed me. The developers have taken all of the cool aspects of CodeIgniter, made them better and removed most of the suck from the lesser aspects. Don’t get me wrong, CodeIgniter isn’t leaving my toolset any time soon. ExpressionEngine 2.0 is going to be built with CodeIgniter so she still has her time and place of use. What I am saying is that any custom application work I do in the future that requires limited or no integration with ExpressionEngine will be done with Kohana. - Beau Dacious

Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interpersonal wack-ness. It is my opinion that many of these never-ending crises are sparked off by an assortment of pernicious social fallacies -- ideas about human interaction which spur their holders to do terrible and stupid things to themselves and to each other. - Beau Dacious

Git’s great! But it’s difficult to learn (it was for me, anyway) – especially the index, which unlike the power-user features, comes up in day-to-day operation. - Beau Dacious

With the last git release, git-rebase gained a new option: --interactive. - Beau Dacious

It just occurred to me that since git stores full tree states, the easiest way to split a commit would be to make a copy of the final tree repeatedly, and in each copy cancel away some changes relative to the previous amended copy of the tree. It turns out you can actually do the procedural steps fairly mechanically. - Beau Dacious

Remember a long time ago, at the dinner table, when your kid brother mashed together a bunch of food that really should not have been mashed together — chicken, jello, gravy, condiments, corn, milk, peas, pudding, all that stuff — and proceeded to eat it? And loved it! And then your crazy uncle, having seen the look of disgust on your face, said: “it all goes to the same place!” Remember that? No? Then you were probably the one shoving nasty shit into your face, but the important thing to understand here is that your uncle is crazy. And so is Git. - Beau Dacious

How to cut through the marketing gimmicks of Sealy, Serta, and the rest. - Beau Dacious

Normalization is a process that involves transforming characters and sequences of characters into a formally-defined underlying representation. This process is most important when text needs to be compared for sorting and searching, but it is also used when storing text to ensure that the text is stored in a consistent representation. - Beau Dacious

One of the things I routinely see on-line when they hear about something new about Impulse is someone commenting “I wish they’d all just consolidate under Steam.” In fact, as Impulse has become increasingly successful, the cry has gotten louder. - Beau Dacious

Space is stupid. - Beau Dacious

I don't like to talk about Quitting Smoking. It sounds so final, and it turns the inevitable backslide into a major failure event. But I do Stop Smoking from time to time, which lasts anywhere from a few weeks to three years. I am in process of stopping right now, in fact. Usually I stop by not smoking, which is a pretty okay way to do it. This time I'm trying to make it more interesting by gradually diminishing intake with the help of a couple D&D rules. - Beau Dacious