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Entries for week beginning August 31, 2008

September 6, 2008

September 5, 2008

How useless is a Chocolate Teapot?

There’s only one way to find out… “So a chocolate teapot is really not very useful, but slightly more so than you would expect, which is an interesting reinterpretation of the old adage!”

September 4, 2008

Sarah Palin Gender Card | The Daily Show

The Daily Show digs out the clips proving politicians’ hypocrisy so the grown-up media doesn’t have to.

Raptr

Just-launched social network site for video-gamers. A month ago, I wouldn’t have paid much attention, but having really gotten into the social side of Xbox Live, I can see the appeal.

Django 1.0 release notes

Django hits the big One Point Oh. Congratulations to all involved. I hope to have groovymother switched over to 1.0 this weekend.

September 3, 2008

Rupert Murdoch acted as peacemaker between Barack Obama and Fox News | guardian.co.uk

Some fascinating details on Rupert Murdoch swinging towards supporting Barack Obama. Murdoch has long been my favourite evil media tycoon — I may hate his right-wing propoganda arms, but I admire the smarts with which he’s conducted his businesses.

PleaseDressMe

A t-shirt search engine. Limited to a small number of vendors currently (Threadless, Busted Tees, et al), but hopefully will expand to some new sources.

ObamaTaxCut.com

“Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families.”

September 2, 2008

MLB At Bat

MLB At Bat

The MLB's official iPhone app finally has pitch-by-pitch game tracking. Hooray! (This screenshot was taken while I was following the game at the Embarcadero BART station!)

September 1, 2008

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Trip to Fort Funston

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

Technical details from Google (in comic-book form) for their upcoming browser. Some good ideas in there (splitting out tabs as separate processes definitely makes a lot of sense), but does the world really need another web browser?

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