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<title><![CDATA[AppHistory app idea]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:04:38 -0800</pubDate>
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  I’ve often wished I had a little app that just tracks the history of apps I write. On what day was Whatever.app 2.0.3 released? On what day was MyiPhoneApp 3.0 sent to the App Store for review? On what day was it approved? Etc. I don’t keep track of these things too well, but I always mean to. Seems like it might make a nice little app.  ... 
(<a href="http://inessential.com/2009/11/08/apphistory_app_idea">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Imogen Heap show postponed.]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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 Santa Barbara, CA November 8, 2009 — Tonight’s SOLD OUT show featuring IMOGEN HEAP has been postponed due to illness. Information on the rescheduled showdate will be posted to www.imogenheap.com , www.newnoisesb.com and www.lobero.com as soon as it is available. 
(<a href="http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1400&nid=24070">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two die in Saturday accident]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:54 GMT</pubDate>
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 Two people, Marcos Arrendondo and Macrina Ocampo of Goleta, died as the result of an accident on HWY 101 South of Storke/Glen Annie Saturday. 
(<a href="http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=1400&nid=24061">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 David Pescovitz 
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<title><![CDATA[Hitler: football coach?]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:45:26 PST</pubDate>
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 The Scottish veterans charity Erskine surveyed 2,000 young people between the ages of nine and 15 about World War I and II. Apparently, five percent thought that Hitler was a German football coach; sixteen percent believed that Auschwitz is a WWII theme park; five percent said the Holocaust was a bash to celebrate the war's end. (STV News)...  
(<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/hitler-football-coac.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[
 Marc 
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<title><![CDATA[Kanye West is not here, but security is&#8230;.]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-08T20:06:20Z</pubDate>
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(<a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2009/11/08/kanye-west-is-not-here-but-security-is">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Davidw 
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<title><![CDATA[Order of Magnitude Quiz: How many travelers]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-08T19:59:40Z</pubDate>
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 According to the Boston Globe, how many travelers fly in or out of Boston's Logan Airport every year? You win this quiz (and get exactly nothing as a prize) if your answer is within an order of magnitude of the right answer. (And I should periodically acknowledge that my friend ... 
(<a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/08/order-of-magnitude-quiz-how-many-travelers">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Full speed ahead]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-08T19:59:40Z</pubDate>
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 What will the airport look like in 2059? A lot like the airport today -- but with busier off-hours, more passengers, and, quite possibly, wind turbines in the lower airspace. 
(<a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/11/08/full_speed_ahead">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Scriptingnewsmail 
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<title><![CDATA[Archive.org&apos;s S3-alike service?]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:04:55 GMT</pubDate>
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  An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it. Update: It's  ... 
(<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/11/08/archiveorgsS3alikeService.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:03:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_9"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL2ltYWdlcy5qdXN0dGVjaGpvYnMuY29tL2ltYWdlcy9saW51eHRvZGF5LmdpZg" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit"></a>
  KDE.news: "Today at 4pm CET at the Center for Economics, Technology and Women's Issues at the Berlin Senate, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software." 
(<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-005-35-NW-KE">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Jonl 
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<title><![CDATA[Mac Tonnies]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-08T07:42:39-08:00</pubDate>
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  Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of FringeWare . Check out his bio (though I would disagree with the second sentence). Consciousness is a potential technology; we are exquisite machines, nothing less than sentient patterns . As such, there&#8217;s no convincing technical reason we can&#8217;t eventually upload ourselves into matrices  ... 
(<a href="http://weblogsky.com/2009/11/08/mac-tonnies-2">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Kohsuke 
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<title><![CDATA[Project of the day: YouDebug]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_11"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qYXZhLm5ldC9pbWFnZXMvcGVvcGxlL2tvaHN1a2Vfa2F3YWd1Y2hpLmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Project of the day: YouDebug"></a>
  As a programmer, I spend a lot of time fixing bugs. And a considerable portion of that is the time spent on reproducing a problem. Here is how a typical such session goes. Your user reports that your program doesn't work and throws such and such exception. Or given the symptom he's describing, you suspect some &quot;if&quot; statements to be  ... 
(<a href="http://www.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/11/08/project-day-youdebug">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Cory Doctorow 
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<title><![CDATA[Ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:29:47 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
 In today's Observer Business column, John Naughton discusses what a ripoff it is for ebook vendors to "sell" you books with abusive, multi-thousand word "license agreements," pretending that because you bought your book over the network, it wasn't a sale, and so you don't get to own it. These "licenses" aren't about upholding copyright (if they  ... 
(<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/ebook-license-agreem.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Scriptingnewsmail 
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<title><![CDATA[ListBrowser gets a new tool]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:20:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_13"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL2ltYWdlcy5zY3JpcHRpbmcuY29tL2FyY2hpdmVTY3JpcHRpbmdDb20vMjAwOC8wMS8yMS9kYXZlLmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="ListBrowser gets a new tool"></a>
 I've done a bunch of little stuff for listbrowser.org , fixes and cleanups, added more data to the list pages, and most important, they now link back to the list on twitter.com. This raises the obvious question, how do you get from a list on twitter.com to the listbrowser.org version of that page? For that, we needed a bookmarklet. http:// ... 
(<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/11/08/listbrowserGetsANewTool.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Fabriziogiudici 
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<title><![CDATA[You can read my Hudson configuration]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
<link>http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_14</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_14"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qYXZhLm5ldC9pbWFnZXMvcGVvcGxlL2ZhYnJpemlvLWdpdWRpY2kuanBn" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="You can read my Hudson configuration"></a>
  After the latest upgrade of my Hudson instance, I noticed that a new option in the security matrix appeared: it allows anonymous visitors to have a (read only) look at a job configuration, if the administrator allows it. I think it's a great feature (that I was asking for some months ago), as it allows to share our knowledge about our favourite  ... 
(<a href="http://www.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/11/09/you-can-read-my-hudson-configuration">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Davidw 
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<title><![CDATA[Rough, rough draft: What info was]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-08T03:21:45Z</pubDate>
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 Draft of my talk on the end of information at the Berkman Center I have been working for weeks on a talk I'm giving at a Tuesday lunch at the Berkman Center, where "work on" means erasing more than I've written. I've done more complete rewrites than I can count, mainly ... 
(<a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/07/rough-rough-draft-what-info-was">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Ruby Sinreich 
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrating at 7 months]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_16"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL2Zhcm0zLnN0YXRpYy5mbGlja3IuY29tLzI3OTkvNDA3NTU4NzQzMl8yYTRiMjAwOGVlLmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Celebrating at 7 months"></a>
 Last weekend, I was looking at Izzy and he seemed to age before my eyes. On Saturday, I took him with me canvassing door-to-door for my old friend Mark Kleinschmidt who was running for Mayor of Chapel Hill . Izzy enjoyed it most of the way, and I figured it couldn't hurt to entice voters with an adorable, friendly baby. It seems to have worked,  ... 
(<a href="http://lotusmedia.org/?p=2213">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1257745902/1#item_17"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL2NhY2hlMC50ZWNoY3J1bmNoLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAwOS8xMS8yODk0OTY4ODg3XzZmZGEwZWQ5MTQuanBn" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does."></a>
 Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others. Apple swiftly approved the app and all was  ... 
(<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/apple-has-no-sense-of-humor-luckily-google-does">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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 Rajesh 
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<title><![CDATA[Blog Past: An Indian in China]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
 I was recently reading about China&#8217;s plan to add 13,000 kms of high-speed train tracks, and was reminded of my first visit to China more than 7 years ago. Here is what I wrote then about my visit to Shanghai: Shanghai is a mix of the historic, the recent past and the futuristic. It has been [...] 
(<a href="http://emergic.org/2009/11/08/blog-past-an-indian-in-china">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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