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Posts from March 2009

Links: 3-29-2009

Epizeuxis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My personal word of the day. Via Caterina Fake. (categories: language wikipedia linguistics )


Links: 3-26-2009

Clearspace on Wikirank Nice visualizations of wikipedia.org traffic, kind of like google trends but based on traffic rather than searches. (categories: infoviz graphing visualization trends wikipedia )


Links: 3-23-2009

Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things I had no idea how cool the story of the Brooklyn Bridge was. (categories: innovation inspiration engineering nyc bridges history )


Links: 3-21-2009

ESPN Dev Blog ESPN guys have a dev blog, rails though? Where? (categories: blogs programming rails espn )

Tell Us: Why does working at Google suck? Google’s 20% time is known internally as 120% time. Fun idea while it lasted. [...]


Links: 3-20-2009

Enjoymentland » Locavore 1.0 is now available! Cool idea: a powerful yet simple application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to find the freshest, most sustainable fruits and vegetables no matter where they are in the United States. (categories: iphone food location gps shopping [...]


Links: 3-19-2009

Painless Functional Specifications - Part 4: Tips - Joel on Software Rule 1: Be Funny, Rule 2: Writing a spec is like writing code for a brain to execute, Rule 3: Write as simply as possible, Rule 4: Review and reread several times, Rule 5: Templates considered harmful [...]


Links: 3-15-2009

» Gravatar in Gmail » Jon Fox When is someone going to join email and social software in an OOTB application? Seems silly that I have to download a greasemonkey script or a FireFox plugin to get this behavior. (categories: social socialsoftware greasemonkey gmail )

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