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The 1984 Ferrari 308 that Edmunds has been testing for the past year is for sale. They purchased it for $28,000 and spent $5,000 on repairs over the course of the year. Wonder how much they’ll get for it? Probably not as much as they get for the 2002 BMW M3 that the staffers have [...]

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How does The Daily Show find all of those amazing clips of politicians saying stupid and contradictory thing? By tapping into the mind of one guy who has been with the show since the beginning. The Washington Post profiles Adam Chodikoff, the video producer for the show. It’s amazing what he does, when you think [...]

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Since it was initially disclosed that the White House had lost millions of emails that were required by law to be archived, I’ve been wondering whether they were lost due to technical ineptitude or “lost” for political expedience. Ars Technica published an article today looking into that question.

It looks like incompetence may have played a [...]

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Given how easy it is these days to outsource Web functionality that you once had to create for yourself, Wired Compiler asks whether the standalone personal Web site is an endangered species. Back in the day you had to install your own blog software, set up your own photo gallery, and take care of everything [...]

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Programming guru Donald Knuth on unit tests:

As to your real question, the idea of immediate compilation and “unit tests” appeals to me only rarely, when I’m feeling my way in a totally unknown environment and need feedback about what works and what doesn’t. Otherwise, lots of time is wasted on activities that I [...]

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Looks like the misreporting of the mass SQL injection attack continues. The exploit is associated with MS SQL Server, not IIS or ASP. It’s confusing because most people run the full Microsoft stack, but the exploit will work against any site that does not prevent SQL injection and uses MS SQL as its database. [...]

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Seen linked on my Twitter stream:

If your goal is to be a productive member of a community, avoid its advocacy groups

From the comments at Chris Dolan’s journal.

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I’ve been reading up on the mass SQL injection attack launched against servers running IIS and MS SQL Server last week. That article is a bit out of date, as the problem turned out not to be a security hole in IIS but rather security holes in the Web applications themselves. The script that compromised [...]

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Tyler Cowen in a post entitled Can we learn anything from the Democratic spat?:

Nonetheless constructivist attempts to remake America will, by political debate, be reshaped along traditional fault lines. That means your good idea — be it libertarian, progressive, or whatever — had better be pretty robust to mangling by the stupid, [...]

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Today I stumbled across the Twitter feed for the Los Angeles Fire Department. I thought it was sort of a silly novelty until I clicked on the Twitter feed for the only person LAFD is following, Brian Humphrey, a public spokesperson for the department. Humphrey’s use of social sites to create a lightweight process for [...]

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