June 2009
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For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing...
– Ze Frank
via dailymeh
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The most expensive piece of medical equipment, as the saying goes, is a doctor’s...
– Atul Gawande, The Cost Conundrum
What a Texas Town Can Teach Us About Healthcare
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Craftsmanship is, of course, incredibly expensive.
The only way you can afford...
– Joel Spolsky, Craftsmanship
I wanted better Gmail ads. I wanted something useful. So I started sending...
– Hacking GMail - Esquire (via kettering)
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The Phonetic Alphabet
Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu
I am now less fond of the letters G, H, and M and more fond of K, P, V, and W.
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Making My Own Sunday Instapaper
I’ve been hooked on Marco Arment’s Instapaper since it first shipped. It’s a simple iPhone application that has transformed what I read on a regular basis. I used to read books (sometimes weighty tomes) and then short things online. I rarely read longer form articles because I didn’t have time to get to them during the day. Now, I can queue them up on Instapaper and...
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Could Social Gaming Run Afoul of Gambling Laws? →
I’ve been wondering this ever since Zynga started making real money from selling fake currency to people playing online poker.
This is a very interesting article that points to some of the relevant legal points about gambling and how various companies are skirting those issues.
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The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...
– David Foster Wallace, E unibus pluram (via dailymeh)
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