1. Ammendment to kill the complete audit of the Fed doesn’t pass 45 minutes ago   permalink

Ammendment to kill the complete audit of the Fed doesn’t pass
Cherman / Dvorak Uncensored

It is amazing how this Reuters article (and the media in general) is biased towards the Fed, so I would recommend checking the DailyPaul blog for more videos, info and all the votes. By the way, according to a WSJ poll , 97% of americans support auditing the Fed. A U.S. congressional panel on Thursday approved a measure to open the Federal ...

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Www.reuters.com
House panel OKs plan to open Fed policy to audits   —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel on Thursday approved a measure to open the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions to government audits, a surprise blow to the central bank's efforts to shield its independence and a signal of frustration with the central bank.

John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored
Gang killing people for their fat   —  Peruvian police: Gang killed people for their fat | Seattle Times Newspaper — Oh brother. Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists. Three suspects confessed to ...

2. Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.computerworld.com

The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've seen the future ... and it's not Chrome OS.

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James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits :   ChromeOS: Stillborn?

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ChromeOS: Stillborn? Google Gives a First Look at the Chrome OS   —  Google gave the first demonstration of its Chrome operating system today, at the same time opening the source code to the public. The company highlighted features that have grown out of what vice president of product management Sundar Pichai called "a fundamentally different model of computing." Unlike other operating systems, which merely ...

3. Smalltalk Daily : Working with the User Environment 1 hour ago   permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at working with the User Environment from Smalltalk. To watch, click on the viewer below: If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly You can also watch it on YouTube: Technorati Tags: smalltalk , user environment

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James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits
Smalltalk Daily : Using the Twitter Library in ObjectStudio   —  Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using the Twitter Library built in VisualWorks in ObjectStudio 8.2. To watch, click on the viewer below: If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly You can also watch it on YouTube: Technorati Tags: objectstudio , smalltalk , twitter

4. Peruviuan police: Gang killed people for their fat 50 minutes ago   permalink

Seattletimes.nwsource.com

Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.

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5. Apple’s Mistake 2 hours ago   permalink

Jjn1 / Memex 1.1

Paul Graham is a terrific, perceptive essayist. (If you haven’t read his collection Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age: Essays on the Art of Programming then might I humbly suggest a visit to Amazon?) His latest essay on how Apple is treating the programmers who develop Apps for the iPhone/iTouch is characteristically ...

6. Mark Dixon's quest to explore the world of Identity Management 4 hours ago   permalink

Mark Dixon's quest to explore the world of Identity Management
Blogs.sun.com

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's recognized as being among the first to identify the directory and directory-enabled applications as" class="rBookmark0"Dave Kearns

7. Systems Thinking and Maxis 8 hours ago   permalink

Rickard �berg / Stuck in the middle

In our StreamFlow project, where we build a workflow system for humans based on GTD, Human Interaction Theory and Systems Thinking, it has been interesting to do research on these topics, and in particular ST. ST states, according to John Seddon, that a worker in a system have roughly 5% impact and the system itself has 95% impact. These are ...

8. Movie Popcorn Has Shocking Calories, Fat 9 hours ago   permalink

Movie Popcorn Has Shocking Calories, Fat
Www.cbsnews.com

(CBS) Ordering a medium popcorn and soda combo from a major national movie theater chain is the equivalent of eating three McDonald's Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter, according to a new study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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9. Kynetx Impact and New Features 9 hours ago   permalink

Kynetx Impact and New Features
Www.windley.com

One of the great things about an event like the Kynetx Impact conference that we’re holding this week is that they are great focusing tools for a company. This has been true of our thinking, but especially our technology. There were three big features we’ve been thinking about and working on for a while, but we wanted to have them ...

10. Captain America Deserves A Hand 12 hours ago   permalink

Captain America Deserves A Hand
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

The Rock-Paper-Scissors Championship took place in Canada: Captain America Rock Solid . Tim Conrad -- or Captain America as he's known to friends -- proved that paper beats rock to the tune of $7,000 at the Yahoo! Rock Paper Scissors World Championship in Toronto. Conrad, a 22-year-old clothing store employee from Taylor, Mich., was one of 512 ...

11. Who Is This Guy? 12 hours ago   permalink

Who Is This Guy?
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

He chose to use this as his official photo. He's semi-well known in some circles. Comments | Posted in General

12. CarTunes 13 hours ago   permalink

CarTunes
Broadcast.oreilly.com

Green Technologies and Interactive Audio are two fields not generally considered related, but a new trend may change that: "Generated Sounds for Electric Vehicles", aka "EV Audio", aka "CarTunes".

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13. How to Optimize Network Management 15 hours ago   permalink

How to Optimize Network Management
Admin / Chris Pirillo

This post was sponsored by LANsurveyor . We’ve worked with the folks at SolarWinds many times in the past. They have excellent products to help you keep your network running in tip-top shape (as their own community will attest). Read more on How to Optimize Network Management… What is Community? How to Email Web Pages to Yourself Who ...

14. Stolen Identity Video 15 hours ago   permalink

Blogs.msdn.com

PDC is slowly wrapping up, and it has been an awesome one. Identity was all over the place, and the interest you guys have show for the topic makes the months of behind-the-scenes hard work well worth it!

15. Toothbrush Tattoo 15 hours ago   permalink

Toothbrush Tattoo
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

This could be a very effective tattoo if the two ends actually lined up. Found at Ugliest Tattoos . Comments | Posted in General

16. The 18 biggest falsehoods in Palin’s book 16 hours ago   permalink

Jjn1 / Memex 1.1

Nice idea, well executed by the Huffington Post .

17. Correcting Corrupted Characters 16 hours ago   permalink

Eric Meyer / Eric � Tech

At some point, for some reason I cannot quite fathom, a WordPress or PHP or mySQL or some other upgrade took all of my WordPress database’s UTF-8 and translated it to (I believe) ISO-8859-1 and then dumped the result back right back into the database. So “Emil Björklund” became “Emil Björklund” . (If ...

18. Cameronspeak 17 hours ago   permalink

Cameronspeak
Jjn1 / Memex 1.1

This is a wordcloud (generated using tagcrowd ) from the text of a major speech made by the Tory Leader at the Open University on May 26 this year. Might be an interesting tool for tracking changes in rhetoric — and perhaps even policy.

19. Remembering Peter Drucker 18 hours ago   permalink

Jjn1 / Memex 1.1

I’ve always thought that Peter Drucker is the only writer one could legitimately call a “management guru” (though Charles Handy runs him close). So it’s nice to come on this essay in the current edition of the Economist . Excerpt: The world’s great business schools have replaced Oxbridge as the nurseries of the global ...

20. Inaugural CA IT Government Expo: A Resounding Success 18 hours ago   permalink

Community.ca.com

CA just wrapped up its first IT Government Expo in Washington D.C. yesterday. IT Government Expo was a mini-CA World with content designed for U.S. government customers and systems integrators that serve that market. Attendance was excellent (exceeding our initial expectations), and the cyber security track (which I was track leader for) had the ...