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In the Garden - Upside-Down Crops Are Growing in Popularity - NYTimes.com

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:04:51 -0400

In the Garden - Upside-Down Crops Are Growing in Popularity - NYTimes.com:

upside down tomato plants

ruby mechanize

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:04:51 -0400

ruby mechanize:

automating url scraping and clicking

http://parksandrecgifs.tumblr.com/

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:04:51 -0400

http://parksandrecgifs.tumblr.com/: http://parksandrecgifs.tumblr.com/:

DAMN. That was fast. Thanks internet.

My one piece of advice is to maybe follow the http://gifsofpopularrappers.tumblr.com/ model an just do one GIF per post…

Script Center Home Page

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:10:47 -0400

Script Center Home Page:

powershell stuffs

Sayonara, iPhone: Why I'm Switching to Android (Daniel Lyons/Newsweek Blogs)

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:10:47 -0400

Sayonara, iPhone: Why I'm Switching to Android (Daniel Lyons/Newsweek Blogs):

Daniel Lyons / Newsweek Blogs:
Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android — I was already fed up with my lousy AT&T service, and was seriously considering…

New 30 f/1.8 Type Prime? [CR1]

Fri, 21 May 2010 02:24:30 -0400

New 30 f/1.8 Type Prime? [CR1]:

Cheap prime!
The story goes a US tech rep said Canon was going to be putting out a lens to compete with Nikon’s popular 35 f/1.8 lens.

I’ve heard it from two places, one saying 30mm and the…

Strategy: Scale Writes to 734 Million Records Per Day Using Time Partitioning

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:32:35 -0400

Strategy: Scale Writes to 734 Million Records Per Day Using Time Partitioning:

In Scaling writes in MySQL (slides) Philip Tellis, while working for Yahoo, describes how using time based partitions they were able to increase their write capability from 2100 inserts per…

Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered ... (Nilay Patel/Engadget)

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:32:35 -0400

Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered ... (Nilay Patel/Engadget):

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered with Sony, Logitech, and Intel — As expected, Google just announced Google TV at…

Gov. Christie takes his 2.5 % limit on property tax increases to the people of New Jersey

Wed, 19 May 2010 20:38:07 -0400

Gov. Christie takes his 2.5 % limit on property tax increases to the people of New Jersey:

Gov. Christie takes his tax cap plan to the people New Jersey

Gov. Chris Christie is taking his plan to stem the nation’s highest property tax to the people. And he started on Monday in an unusual…

Proof That Google TV Will Make Its Debut Tomorrow (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Wed, 19 May 2010 20:38:07 -0400

Proof That Google TV Will Make Its Debut Tomorrow (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch):

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Proof That Google TV Will Make Its Debut Tomorrow — For the last couple months (and even before that), rumors have been swirling about a…

It’s a Good Time to be a Web Developer.

Wed, 19 May 2010 20:38:07 -0400

It’s a Good Time to be a Web Developer.:

I think this graph from Google I/O says it all:

With all the FUD around Flash and the iPad its easy to forget that we are living in a golden age of web development. The web is…

New: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS)

Wed, 19 May 2010 15:42:47 -0400

New: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS):

chaj:
coool

I’ve got a cool new Amazon S3 feature to tell you about, but I need to start with a definition!

Let’s define durability (with respect to an object stored in S3) as the…

Notes On Video

Wed, 19 May 2010 05:48:42 -0400

Notes On Video:

good vid tech blog

Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor 'Google Storage' At I/O (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Wed, 19 May 2010 05:48:42 -0400

Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor 'Google Storage' At I/O (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch):

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O — Amazon’s cloud storage services are going to be getting another major…

Improv Everywhere Ghostbusters Prank in the New York Public Library

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:05:00 -0400

Improv Everywhere Ghostbusters Prank in the New York Public Library:

chaj:
holy cow. this is awesome

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edited by Matt Adams / song by Tyler Walker

Read the full write up with tons of…

Gov. Christie takes his 2.5 % limit on property tax increases to the people of New Jersey

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:05:00 -0400

Gov. Christie takes his 2.5 % limit on property tax increases to the people of New Jersey:

Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated) (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:05:00 -0400

Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated) (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb):

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated) — Updated at 9:30 PM PST with comment from Google. Google posted an…

Amazon RDS - Multi-AZ Deployments For Enhanced Availability & Reliability

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:05:00 -0400

Amazon RDS - Multi-AZ Deployments For Enhanced Availability & Reliability:

Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don’t have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware,…

Hot Rod Cameras PL Mount Canon 5D Mark II Prototype

Mon, 17 May 2010 14:34:24 -0400

Hot Rod Cameras PL Mount Canon 5D Mark II Prototype:

Hot Rod Cameras Canon 5D Mark II PL Mount

By: Jared Abrams

Illya Friedman from Hot Rod Cameras stopped by my office the other day with his Canon 5D Mark II PL Mount. We have seen…

7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month

Mon, 17 May 2010 14:34:24 -0400

7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month:

Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5…