1. There Are No New Stories

    There Are No New Stories

    The ancient Greeks wrote them all. For example:

    “Mr. Spitzer’s suspicious financial transactions at North Fork might never have been discovered were it not for a Suspicious Activity Report filed by HSBC about the shell companies linked to Emperor’s Club V.I.P …
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  2. Celtics Coverage: Now with More Scat!

    Celtics Coverage: Now with More Scat!

    Tommy (re: injury reports): “Now I am told by the truck that good old Greg had the poop!”

    Mike: “He did.”

    Tommy: “He had the poop! But he didn’t give it to me!”

    Mike: “He’s got to share that stuff.”

    Tommy: “That …

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  3. SXSW Music Torrent

    SXSW Music Torrent

    Literally. Somehow in the course of a year, the online music sampler from SXSW went from 60 songs to 48 hours of songs, so I’d given up hope of finding anything new from this year’s SXSW. Fortunately for me, Paul Ford was willing to step …

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  4. New Gnarls Barkley

    New Gnarls Barkley

    Two videos, second one is just ?uestlove doing his best teenage girl on MySpace act while the song plays. Not that I’d know, but the album might be on Soulseek

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  5. VM Development

    VM Development

    I do my Windows development on a beast* of a Bootcamp’d Mac Pro tower and that works just fine, or it would if every project I worked on were virgin territory, untouched by human hands. Unfortunately, some of what I work on has been touched by human …

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  6. Location Awareness

    Location Awareness

    Yahoo announced FireEagle yesterday, a set of twin APIs for letting you send information about your current location and for letting other applications consume that information at various levels of granularity. The announcement below is worth your time if you’re interested in this sort of stuff.

    This …

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  7. A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events

    A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events

    • 3:05am - awakened by dog barking. Roll over.
    • 3:06 - Michelle gets up, saying something’s not right as so many other dogs are barking
    • 3:06:20 - “Yeah, there’s a cop talking to someone in our driveway. I think …
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  8. Burn, Baby, Burn

    Burn, Baby, Burn

    Remember that movie where Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot? Yeah, me neither:

    It even inspired a decent comment on YouTube:

    … it’s fun to pretend he’s playing the same character as in Firefox. Why wouldn’t they give the job of stealing a Soviet superplane …
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