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Nothing quite like of having every item in a feed marked as unread because ads have been inserted. I wonder if the fact that ads constantly change will mean that sites like Bloglines will have a harder time keeping track of what’s new and what isn’t. I hope not. I guess it depends on whether [...]

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Matt Haughey has a good post on why running AdSense ads in your feeds doesn’t make sense.

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Here’s the bottom line, as I see it, on the compromise that has forestalled the application of the “nuclear option,” which would change Senate rules permitting unlimited debate of judicial nominees. If less than 5 Republicans had broken ranks with their leadership, there would have been no compromise, the nuclear option would have been exercised, [...]

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Over the past week or so, a new New York Times series (part 2) detailing an investigation into Afghans who were killed while in US military custody has been much discussed in the blogosphere. Needless to say, the idea that US soldiers, believing they were acting according to the wishes of their superiors, beat their [...]

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In spite of my own fears and warnings from others about the limitations of using the object-oriented features in PHP 4, I plowed ahead this week. In the reporting system I’m working on, I finally got to a point where I needed more structure than include files and functions. Object-oriented systems have three characteristics, [...]

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Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson on problem solving:

If you can get those magical 80% of the solution for 20% of the effort, how about just finding a way to cope with the missing 20% of the solution? If you can, you get to solve five easy problems (with comparable value) instead of solving [...]

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The O’Reilly Radar reports that there’s support within Google for the maps hacks that have been popping up everywhere.

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A post from the Mind Hacks blog on stereotype threat is one of the most interesting and throught provoking things I’ve read in some time.

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Adrian Holovaty has come out and admitted that he created chicagocrime.org, the Web site everyone is talking about.

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I love sites that make publicly accessible data more usable. In the spirit of They Work For You comes chicagocrime.org, which features a number of cool features, including RSS everywhere and heavy use of Google Maps. Here’s an example of a specific crime that was reported. One of the coolest features is a dynamic map [...]

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