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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.

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Secret Language of Twins

Where we got “That is good news” from:

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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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Burn, Baby, Burn

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

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Anti-Arsenal CAPTCHA

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Hapiness

UPS letting me know my Rock Band pedal is out for delivery even though EA claims it still hasn’t shipped + a slab of Grateful Dead tracks. Along the same lines, Read the full piece

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Retro Done Rite

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Winter

I can see where this would make a person suicidal. For the last few weeks, I’ve felt I must have shirked my duties this winter. Judging by the driveways, the house, the road, winter has been winning. We’ve spent the last two weekends trying to dig out …

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Rock Band Track Production

Interesting to me for the bits they discovered in well-known songs’ master tracks:

Even a seminal punk band like the Clash yielded some surprises. Even wonder why the drums sound so good on “I Fought the Law”? Because there’s two drummers on it (or more …
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How Do I Justify a Tablet as a Business Expense?

Needs an iPhone version.

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