December 2009
Apple Tablet Will Cost Under $1,000, Says... →
Is Manu Thinking Retirement? →
Angels All-Decade Team →
I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security...
– Emanuel Derman
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Anil Dash: Life on Twitter's A-List →
Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...
– Lawrence Lessig
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Former A&M Star: Franchione Also Abused Players →
Remember James Blunt? →
Yeah, I flushed him from memory too. Seeing his name again was like running into that guy from your high school — you know, the one who got way too drunk at that one party, harrassed that girl, and nobody ever talked to him again — at the local supermarket and immediately regretting the errand.
The real question is, who should be more ashamed for their decade chart-topper: The U.S....
Comedy Central's 2010 Resolution: Cancel Jeff... →
We have decided not to die Directed by Daniel Askill
Sneaker News Top 30 Sneakers of 2009 →
35 Google open-source projects that you probably... →
We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some...
– Richard Dawkins
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“Emphasis On Bacon.”
Meyer To Wife, Kids: “Sorry, God Checked Down” →
I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...
– Security expert Bruce Schneier
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The Star Wars Holiday Special: When will Lucas release the original footage? It’s the Zapruder of classic television.
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Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier...
– Robert Heinlein
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Florida's Meyer to Step Down →
A Brief History of the London Underground's... →
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I’d like to wish a very happy Boxing Day to The Daily Bunch’s Canuck Legion.
Happy people have no history.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Beyond Realtime Search: The Dawning Of Ambient... →
Economic change is fomenting intellectual change. When the economy was about...
– David Brooks, “The Protocol Society” New York Times December 22, 2009
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I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and...
– E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
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A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com: Visualization of the New York Times site traffic on June 25, 2009 — the day Michael Jackson died. See also the U.S.-only view and the write-up explaining the whole thing.
Fun Stats: 28% Of Sites Use Google Analytics; 5%... →
Lakers' Pau Gasol signs contract extension →