August 2009
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Having fun with MacRuby →
From the iCoreTech Research Labs blog, how to get MacRuby working on Snow Leopard. Yes, you have build it from Git. Yes, that means first building LLVM from SVN. Yes, it is kind of a pain, but you get Ruby objects that are made from Objective-C objects, not to mention an LLVM based Ruby bytecode interpreter!
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THE COST CONUNDRUM →
What a Texas town can teach us about health care.
From the New Yorker: Maybe fixing healthcare has more to do with doctors than insurance.
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BB&T Takes Over Failing Colonial BancGroup →
Bobby Lowder has kept his touch:
The NY Times reports that after several months of embattlement, failure caught up with Colonial BancGroup as Alabama state regulators officially closed it on Friday.
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“We are bound to disagree, but let’s disagree over issues that are real, and not...”
– Barack Obama, as an Op-Ed Contributor to the NY Times—Why We Need Health Care Reform
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Graffiti art at Birmingham's Bare Hands Gallery... →
Mostly rational review of the Graffiti Show in the Birmingham News. Related: I’m a published hack photographer!
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Os Gêmeos - Slide Show →
The NY Times, with some images of the first public artwork in Manhattan by the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos. Roberta Smith describes the mural, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, as bringing graffiti art to its Rococo phase.
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