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Jay Robinson: Some Notes On iTunes LP. Unsurprisingly, the album info is basically a packaged Web site made of HTML, CSS, and media files. I like that Apple is trying a new way to get people to return to the experience of listening to an album. MySQL Performance Blog: 3 ways MySQL uses indexes. Short and useful. The American Prospect: The Life and Death of Online Communities. There are plenty of articles on this subject, but they never get old for me. This one’s about GeoCities. Ask MetaFilter: New York Times malware ads. Looks like the New York Times is running ads that attempt to install malware. I noticed the same thing on Haaretz a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like something’s wrong with the ad brokers. The New York Times owns up here.

Since updating my Mac running Snow Leopard to 10.6.1, I’m seeing the following message in the Terminal at least once after running every command: dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache Someone said online that you can clear the cache using the following command: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force That returned the error: update_dyld_shared_cache failed: vm address 0xFEEDFACE not found in /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libLAPACK.dylib I was hoping to post a solution to the problem for other people, but I haven’t solved it yet! So if you have any ideas, please post a comment. ...

Steve McCurry: Remembering First Responders on 9/11. The Big Picture: Remembering September 11. rc3.org: Archive for September 11, 2001.

Wow.com: Pre-raid Trivia Pumps Up Enthusiasm. I just love the spirit of this. Squashed: “The Government”. I loved this, simply as a bit of common sense. Rands in Repose: Your People. Great piece on networking. Atul Gawande: The Road Ahead. Commentary on last night’s speech by the President by my favorite health care commentator. GOOD: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. One of the top five on the list of things that freak me out. Rajith Attapattu: Survival tips for software engineers in a customer facing role. Good set of suggestions. I definitely concur with his suggestion that you learn about the tools that can give you the information you need to diagnose problems remotely.

New York Times: Robert Spinrad, a Pioneer in Computing, Dies at 77. Former director of Xerox PARC – which was maybe the most concentrated center of innovation in the history of computing. Cash4Gold offers to pay its critics for their silence. If you don’t watch TV, Cash4Gold is a company that offers to buy gold from people at, as it turns out, far less than the prevailing market rate. Here are a couple of looks at the current unemployment picture. Our current level of unemployment looks really grim when you fit it to the pace of recovery from recent recessions. Oh, and in total, about 200,000 fewer people have jobs now than had jobs ten years ago. It’s worth remembering that the economy must add roughly 150,000 jobs a month to keep pace with population growth. James Surowiecki: Inflated Fears. Now’s not the time to obsess over inflation.

John Gruber: Regarding WordPress and Security. I think the number of people who should be running and maintaining their own content management system keeps getting smaller. The hosted blog tools are really good, and keeping everything running properly really is a pain. Nate Silver: A Trigger – With Teeth? A trigger clause for the public option could be a good idea if the trigger is likely to kick in without real changes on the part of private insurers and if the public option is robust. Chris Dixon: Is now a good time to start a company? The economy is not great, but I still don’t see a lot of good programmers out looking for jobs.

Richard Nixon’s health care reform proposal. I would gladly take this plan. Brian Mastenbrook: How I cross-site scripted Twitter in 15 minutes, and why you shouldn’t store important data on 37signals’ applications. Good post on XSS vulnerabilities and best practices for dealing with security researchers. New York Times: For Your Health, Froot Loops. Put this in your pocket for when people start yammering about businesses regulating themselves. Tim Bray: On Music. A wide ranging look at the future of the music business. For all the complaining about the death of the music industry, an awful lot of really good music is being recorded. Matt Mullenweg: How to Keep WordPress Secure. Shorter version: make sure you’re always running the latest release.

First of all, happy birthday to my friend Paul, who doesn’t read my blog. Guardian: CIA doctors face human experimentation claims. Just read the headline. Tim Bray: Ravelry. Tim interviews Casey Forbes, the tech guy behind Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts and covers everything from bootstrapping a business to scaling Ruby on Rails. The Numbers Guy: Some Theorists Withhold Best-Voting-System Award. Voting experts weigh in on the new voting system for the Oscars this year. Hanan Cohen: Spoken Directions to Web Content (aka “Go to page number”). A good, simple idea for improving Web site usability. This approach could also be extended to create a spoken instructions/shortened URL hybrid service for a site.

Ars Technica: John Siracusa’s Snow Leopard review. 23 pages of goodness. How the economics of strip malls differ from the economics of commercial blocks in cities. Jonah Lehrer: The Just World Hypothesis. One of the great moral insights I had at a relatively early age is that the world generally operates with no regard for or propensity toward just outcomes. Dan Gillmor: Time Pundit’s Rant and (Partly) Misguided Sense of Privacy. You can’t expect email sent to a mailing list to remain private. WebMonkey: Opera 10 Arrives. Opera has never caught on with me, but they’re to be commended for driving innovation in the browser market and putting the bigger browser makers to shame on a regular bases.

MySQL Performance Blog: Give me 8 hours, and I’ll help you build a better application. Three simple things you should to to make your applications more robust. Andrew Sullivan: The Rotten Core. As Alasdair Gray said, “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Foreign Policy: Think Again: Africa’s Crisis. Things aren’t as bad in Africa as you think. This is a short article that sheds lights on a lot of popular misconceptions. Amateur Gourmet: Dinner at El Bulli. The closest I’ll ever come to eating there, except perhaps when I watched Decoding Ferran Adria. Business Week: Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?. An argument that job creation has stalled due to a lack of basic research. Financial Times: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil. Absolutely brilliant feature on an Iraqi petroleum geologist who emigrated to Norway in 1968 to get proper health care for his daughter and walked into the opportunity of a lifetime.