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Photograph and explanation of two colliding galaxies
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Intending on using this improved recipe for strongspace backups. Time Machine for local and Strongspace for remote /Documents backup
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John Siracusa's excellent 10.5 Macos X Leopard review. Lots of great technical detail, it is worth puching through all 17 pages. 10.5 looks like a fantastic release for developers.
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arXiv, the Physics preprint server now has an API. In the physics community the majority of research is trafficed through this service, most papers are read prior to publication.
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Detailed changes from the Apple Ruby team it seems.
delicious: October 2007 Archives
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Tim Bray announcing the closing of the AtomPP working group, as the RFC 5023 is now published. Excellent news and an excellent piece of work, I think AtomPP is a super piece of work, we're using it internally already.
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wonderful stuff
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Five new skyscrapers by 2011, pretty much in a line from Liverpool St to London Bridge
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A word game, guess the right meaning and they donate rice to aid agencies. Quite addictive.
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Heads up display at 7g, 12 hour battery and 160x120 image. Commerical product in the next year or so, very interesting.
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Totally awesome, jumping out of a space craft after becoming an astronaut
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Animated map of Europe and Asia, plus North Africa, showing posession over the last 5000 years, interesting seeing how much things have changed. Yet the divide between Europe and Asia is there from 1400 onwards.
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How keyboards have evolved, surprisingly readable. That the windows team equated ctrl-c and cmd-c is amazing
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Delightful essay from Clay Shirky on the problem for the designer. Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity
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It won't be cheap, but it'll be lovely. The new Canon 200 f/2, a replacement for the out of production 200 f1.8
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old rumor proving true, noting a new canon 200 f2 from autumn 2006, as announced this week
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I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller This has been running around my head for years
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Interesting open source release from dopplr. Matt Biddulph has made available the code for finding contacts on other services.
