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The Open Government Directive -- and why it's a big deal.
So we finally have our hands on the long-awaited Open Government Directive which lays out the Obama Administration's vision for what transparent, participatory, and collaborative government will look like when it is pushed beyond the hub of the Obama White House and out into the many agencies, departments, and offices that make up the United States federal government.
The Burger Lab: The Fake Shack Cheeseburger
How to make the Shack Burger at home.
Recipe: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/the-fake-shack-shake-shack-burger-recipe.html
Lucid Hydra 200: Multi-GPU Made Simple? - ExtremeTech
"If the Lucid's Hydra 200 chip performs as advertised, it may significantly alter the multi-GPU landscape by letting Nvidia and ATI graphics cards work together... as long as you're running Windows 7, which can run more than one graphics card driver at a time."
What problems does Google Wave solve? -- Daniel Tenner
"The way Google should have advertised Wave is: “it solves the problems with email”."
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Add Sticky NoteBut then again, most geeks don’t do all that much document-based collaboration, by email or otherwise. Programming doesn’t require a whole lot of collaboration, beyond that provided by source control tools and bug tracking system
- Of course, the problem with this analysis is that is assumes geek = programmer - on 2009-10-15
MSDN's New Look - A Preview
Explore this Preview of the Visual Basic Developer Center to get an an early look at the new experience coming to MSDN... How do you like the new user experience? We want to hear from you. Post your questions, concerns, feedback, ideas or compliments on the MSDN Feedback Forum.
What's New in DekiScript for MindTouch Core/2009 "Lyons" (9.02) - MindTouch Community Portal
Among the many new features in MindTouch Deki "Lyons" are also some important improvements to DekiScript, the built-in end-user scripting language for creating dynamic content, mashups, and collaborative applications...
Programmable Erasable Paper | The Future of Documents
Paper that self-erases after a programmed time? The only problem seems to be that this is caused by UV, so it's not a security measure, because anyone who wanted to keep it could just avoid exposing it to UV... no Mission Impossible here.
Hacker News
YCombinator's Hacker News is like a digg for geeks - so far mostly unpolluted by normal folk...
The Waxman-Markey Bill: A Good Start Or A Non-Starter? - Yale Environment 360
As carbon cap-and-trade legislation works it way through Congress, the environmental community is intensely debating whether the Waxman-Markey bill is the best possible compromise or a fatally flawed initiative...
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No matter what form it finally takes, the bill is historic. For the first time, the U.S. government would cap and regulate emissions of carbon dioxide.
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But even erstwhile allies in the environmental movement are split over the bill. Their disagreement is centered on the many compromises — including a weakening of emissions and renewable energy targets — that the bill’s sponsors were forced to make in order to win approval in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Windows 7 Beta To RC Upgrade Instructions
Microsoft suggests to do a clean install instead as the development changes introduced after the release of the beta of Windows 7 were not always compatible with the upgrades made thereafter ,,, but ...
Doctorow's Law: Who Benefits from DRM? - Electronic Frontier Foundation
why DRM on digital books is bad for customers, bad for authors, and bad for business.
NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts
NPR is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming.
Goodbye Google | stopdesign
Stopdesign is the creative outlet of Douglas Bowman. I am passionate about design, typography, and the media and tools of my craft.
BBC NEWS | LA | Soldier toy disarmed at airport
A GI Joe toy caused a security alert at LAX because its two-inch plastic gun was considered a dangerous weapon... A spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport said: "We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica. If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him."
Dude. Where's your brain?
WCF Socket-Based bi-directional communication (C9 forum)
A conversation on the Channel 9 Forums about doing bidi in WCF, with a couple of good links in it. ;)
Will code HTML for food April Fool Gag
Please stop forwarding this stupid picture to people.
Semantic Proxy Beta
Give SemanticProxy.com the address of a web page, and get rich semantic metadata about the people, companies, events and relationships on that page.
WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum
Some slick demos of the new features and hardware accellerated animations in WPF 3.5 SP1 ...
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