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Jorn Barger, quoted by Julian Dibbell in Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man, an article which among other things, describes a web log as a modern Wunderkammer.
The NY Times on the homeless population of Downtown Eastside Vancouver. So true; I’ve never seen such a throng. It made the Tenderloin seem like a vast uninhabited countryside.
Open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript. Definitely not a full implementation of Flash, but what is present will work on an iPhone and will not be crashy (in other words, actually somewhat useful).
This Just in From the 1890s: the NYTimes on the latest chapter in the hipster obsession with a tough yet classy late 19th century. Rough hewn and taxidermied interior decorating has progressed to the tweed ride documented with wet-plate photography.
A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — and the feds have yet to bust the culprits.
Hard hitting journalism covering the institutionalized fraud behind the financial system collapse…in Rolling Stone?
Exactly: Derek Powazek with a great explanation of why SEO is either obvious, pointless or evil.
Wireless Magic Packets! [that is, on a newer Mac, with Snow Leopard, and using a newish Airport Extreme / Time Capsule]. Bonjour Sleep Proxy!
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!
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.
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.
Barack Obama, as an Op-Ed Contributor to the NY Times—Why We Need Health Care Reform
