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Cool idea of the day — running GreaseMonkey scripts on a proxy. Sure seems like the idea that users will view your content exactly as you had intended continues to recede further into the distance.

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Important note to all columnists, bloggers, and other online pundits: never again start a missive with some variation of “I’m sure my inbox is filling up with flames right now.” It’s not an original, enlightening, or witty way to announce that you’re about to say something “controversial.” If you have something to say, just say [...]

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United Airlines was allowed by a bankruptcy judge to default on its pensions. Taxpayers will be picking up the slack, but some beneficiaries will see their benefits decline sharply. What does it mean? Alex Tabarrok says this is a warning to people who don’t want to replace Social Security with private accounts. Josh Marshall’s readers [...]

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Joel Spolsky: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong. Includes an explanation and defense of Hungarian notation (as it’s meant to be used).

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Ed Felten explains why the Newsweek rankings of high schools are totally bogus. The problem seems to be that they used the numbers available without thinking about whether those numbers have any explanatory value.

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A doctor who happens to consult for the liquor industry says that if red wine is good for you, Scotch whisky is even better. The more pedestrian truth is that you can get even more of the stuff that’s good for you by eating soft fruit.

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Havoc Pennington on IDEs, after giving Eclipse a whirl:

The most important language features are the ones that enable a great IDE.

I do all my Java hacking in Eclipse (and have no doubt that I could be similarly productive in Netbeans or IntelliJ IDEA if I used them every day), and I do my other coding [...]

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I have come to believe that one of the simplest things the United States could do to improve the quality of our government is change the way Congressional districts are drawn. Mark Schmitt covers some redistricting schemes that would create more competitive Congressional races and hopefully give us a more responsive Congress with fewer safe [...]

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If you use Mozilla or Firefox, you need to pay attention to this security advisory.

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So I’m trying to figure out the easiest approach to create a simple Model-View-Controller implementation in PHP. I found a sample implementation, but there are a number of things I don’t like about it, starting with the fact that the Web stuff is all embedded in code, which violates one of the key tenets of [...]

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