- Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog: Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server – interesting. (thanks Jeremy)
- Nicholas Kristof on U.S. Income Inequality – exactly.
- BBC News – Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a ‘mini-Big Bang’ – whoa!
- Andrew Hyde: Two Months With iPad as My Computer – yup.
- Redux Mobile Working Thoughts – I’m seeing about the same thing. The iPad is now a consumption only device for me.
- No More Hand Holding: Why Consultants Need to Build Apps – great coverage for our friends at RedMonk.
- Fingers Know When You Type Wrong: Scientific American Podcast – Really interesting in light of my recent post.
- Take Android screenshots without root | Android Central – It’s absurd that people are considering this a solution.
- Like the Difference Between Buying From an Upscale Mall, or Buying From a Back Alley Black Market – In a closed ecosystem like an app store, there is no inherent data like pagerank to let the crowds expose the best stuff.
- Menubar Countdown | Capable Hands Technologies, Inc. – Added to my must-have app list. At least for my home desktop.
- Firefox 4 for Mac OS X: Under the Hood | Boom Swagger Boom – time to start playing with the nightlies.
- TSA – Your Naked Photos are Safe With Us and We’re Making Air Travel a Touching Experience – pitch perfect, as usual.
- Is OpenTable Worth it? | Incanto – “On the other hand, perhaps the high cost of doing business with OpenTable merely reflects a harsh reality for which restaurateurs have no one to blame but themselves: the truth that by permitting a third party to own and control access to the customer database, restaurants have unwittingly paid while giving away one of the crown jewels of their business, their customers.” (thanks Devin)
- A Tribute To Dave – Dave Niehaus was the soundtrack of the summers of my youth.
- CodeIgniter 2.0 – Now with more Awesome – great changes.
- my letter to my congresswoman. did i forget anything?: – sogrady.me – Steve’s eloquent letter to his congresswoman regarding the current TSA porn/groping mess. He says it better than anywhere else I’ve seen.
- The Art of Not – good read, as usual.
- Obama Without Tears – good commentary.
- Would you rent a computer for $100/month? : Devin Reams Blog – The two people that sit closest to me in the office have or are purchasing new MacBook Airs. Whatever I’ve got appears to be contagious.
- General Motors: Government Motors no more | The Economist – I have to admit the auto bailout was so far on the bottom of my mental pile I’d forgotten about it entirely.
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