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Sep 17, 2009
What happens when you don't understand open source licenses?

I was just checking out a TextMate-like editor for Windows called E Text Editor. It looks pretty good, but I was a bit surprised when I read about his “Open Company License”.
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Sep 14, 2009
My university can't draw.

This is their idea of a good new logo.
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Aug 26, 2009
Maemo is coming

So according to what everybody is saying, Nokia is going to start using the Maemo operating system + SDK in their high-end smartphones. This is good news. Symbian is basically a smoking pile of junk. It’s too old, and too crap, to be fixed. Toss it out the window and good riddance.
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Aug 20, 2009
Who Will Get What? -- a US healthcare infographic

Who Will Get What? This is an information graphic based on Health Insurance Reform in Three Steps by Nicholas Beaudrot. I thought it would work better in this format, which shows the proportions of people as the thickness of the lines.
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Aug 20, 2009
Google: what is zero?

Apparently it’s 1.15463195 * 10^-14.
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Aug 14, 2009
Saying goodbye to Guido Sohne

Some people’s deaths hit me harder than others. When Douglas Adams died in 2001 I was devastated. I also took it pretty bad when Guido Sohne died last year. I’m glad that he’s now been rewarded with a post-humous award – in his name – and triggered a belated reaction to the original news.
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Aug 12, 2009
Where have all the great actresses gone?

Movies are great for many reasons, but having a superstar actor/actress can make even a half-ass movie bearable or even good. There’s lots of great actors who can pull it off these days. To give a few random examples. Benicio Del Toro. Bruce Willis. Brad Pitt. Clooney. Clint Eastwood, after all these years. … much as I hate to admit it, Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Jul 22, 2009
Praise for uHear

I still think that the uHear application I made for Unitron is pretty cool. So do some other people.
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Jul 7, 2009
Closures with return values in Java

Here’s how to get everything you need from closures today in Java, without waiting for the big foreheads to argue over how to make it nice and perfect.
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Jul 4, 2009
Something I found written on a piece of paper

I’m not sure if it means anything:
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