October 2009
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The Net and the European Union
I found this article really interesting and I though I’d translate it to english (it is originally written in spanish). The article is from Enrique Dans and published at Expansión on the 29th of October 2009. Enrique Dans is a known spanish blogger and Expansión is a also an important spanish economic journal.
This is, of course, my own free translation of the article, and neither I or my...
Like Microsoft, Google only cares about attracting attention to its latest...
– Daniel Eran Dilger (RoughlyDrafted Magazine)
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HTML5 assault on Adobe Flash heats up with... →
Interesting article about the future of flash. Adobe Flash faces new challenges with HTML5 and being locked out of the iPhone—I like that decision from Apple everyday more and more.
It also talks about ClickToFlash, a great plugin to prevent annoying flash ads while still being able to easily activate that necessary flash. Recommended to anyone using Safari.
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Flags by colours →
A bunch of piecharts where each sector is the amount of a certain colour on a country flag.
(via I Love Charts : sraz : shahee ilyas)
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Racism
You: hi
Stranger: hi
You: name?
Stranger: chun wu at your service
You: alexander goldberg
Stranger: sup
You: u kno i never forgave u koreans for attacking pearl harbor
Stranger: uhh. im chinese…and that was the japanese who attacked it
You: chinese, japanese, korean…whats the difference
Stranger: ……
Stranger: u serious?
You: yeah
Stranger: ……
Stranger: u know i never forgave u jews for sinking the titanic
You: that was an iceberg.
Stranger: goldberg, greenberg, iceberg. whats the difference
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Apple's new multitouch Magic Mouse →
A ridiculously priced mouse that looks incredibly awesome. It finally catches up with the multitouch trackpad. I can’t wait to get one n_n
(via RoughlyDrafted Magazine : AppleInsider)
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The only way to break from the past is to kill it off along with all those who...
– Daniel Eran Dilger at RoughlyDrafted Magazine
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The Xanadu Dream →
Great article of ancient computer lore.
Coding Horror:
He is the archetypal borderline autistic, non-conformist, free-thinking technologist. Any resemblance between Ted and your average programmer is, I’m sure, completely coincidental.
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Xanadu, a global hypertext publishing system, is the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry. It has been in...
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Everlasting tiny nuclear batteries →
Although the word nuclear always sounds scary, having a laptop without ever needing to replace its battery nor charge it sounds awesome.
(via Maikelnai’s blog : BBC News)
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