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The THX Sound
The essential, funny guide to retro and future synths, guitars, music making, gear, gadgets and techology.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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Back That Gmail Up
I’m not leery of Google shuttering its Gmail service, but I can imagine a scenario where they cut off my access to Gmail and I have no way to plead my case to the search behemoth. So I went looking …
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Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
Discuss this post on Hacker News. My workout plan this summer would make any fitness guru shudder. I try to go to the gym once or twice a week. I spend 25
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Don't use Scatterplots
In a series of blog posts, Gary Rubinstein attempts show that the Value Added Modelling scores recently released by the NYC Department of Education prove that VAM (Value Added Modelling) is not accurate. However, whatever flaws VAM may have, Gary Rubinstein (henceforth GR) hasn't demonstrated them. All he has…
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If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time
Forget Suze Orman. Time, not money, is your most precious resource. Spend it wisely.
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The Art of Computer Typography
Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his unexpected contributions to typography. You see, Knuth is a professor and computer scientist well known to pr…
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Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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Introducing Facebook Camera
Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier.
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Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks
How I secured a ThinkPad: a Windows honeypot with Prey for thieves, TRESOR against cold boot, a USB boot stick for evil maids, and a separate Firefox user.
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GCC Explorer
Introducing a new way to stare at the disassembly of your compiled C and C++
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After Facebook fails
Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our ti…
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Maddox on Link-Baiting Aggregation Sites
11 Sexy Girls with Star Wars tattoos you don't have the rights to publish
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Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler
Large-scale system modeling environment for instant visualization, simulation, analysis of systems with mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, biological and other components.
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