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• (Feb 10, 3:46) Interesting comments on the draft from Clayton Cramer - "I don't want any conscripts fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their heart won't be in it... The Soviet Army was of low quality for this reason; it had almost no professional soldiers, and lots of conscripts."
• (Feb 10, 3:49) The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
• (Feb 10, 3:50) Linux Assembly
• (Feb 10, 4:03) Israel Hems In a Sacred City (washingtonpost.com) - [to finish reading]
• (Feb 10, 4:28) Unicode spaces (18 kinds of them!) - via Mark
• (Feb 10, 4:32) OCaml, an Introduction
• (Feb 10, 4:44) VPWiki API - VoodooPad's XML-RPC wiki API
• (Feb 10, 11:48) The Dependency Inversion Principle (PDF)
• (Feb 10, 11:49) Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
• (Feb 10, 11:52) A Brief Introduction to IoC - I've heard of Inversion of Control all over the place, and really never understood what it's about. I'm not sure yet, but I think I've been using this pattern for a while, I just didn't know it had a name.
• (Feb 10, 11:53) Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C is Not My Favorite Language - via LtU
• (Feb 10, 11:56) Groovy - Scripting for Java
• (Feb 10, 11:58) Parts, Pipelines, and Declarative programming: An architectural model
• (Feb 10, 12:15) Jeffrey Veen: Seven Steps to Better Presentationss - via Paul
• (Feb 10, 12:18) Voidstar - RSS, Blogger and Atom - Blogger only supports Atom now? Or was that just something that individual blog chose to do?
• (Feb 10, 12:21) Right Wing News: Star Trek & "Death By Prosperity" - Ever since I first started watching Star Trek and they explained that "Yeah, we got rid of money", it made it harder to suspend my disbelief. Holodecks? Maybe. No money? No way. Technology changes, human nature doesn't.
• (Feb 10, 20:40) lgf: Huge Vulnerability in Windows Revealed
• (Feb 10, 21:03) paranoidfish.org/notes/ : Fluidtime
• (Feb 10, 21:04) paranoidfish.org/notes/ : Technorati Hacks
• (Feb 10, 21:24) Mona Charen: DC vouchers - via Steve Dekorte. I wonder what the status of this is in the Senate?
• (Feb 10, 21:27) Sjoerd Visscher: Providing context in programming (part 2)
• (Feb 10, 21:30) Jihad Watch: Iran: mullahs hoping Bush loses
• (Feb 10, 21:30) Dhimmi Watch: Kerry: I'll be a good dhimmi
• (Feb 10, 21:38) Implementations of Irregular Parallel Algorithms - via Steve Dekorte
• (Feb 10, 21:40) Steve Dekorte: Apple's Shark profiler - "I've been using Shark to optimize Io and have been impressed with it's features. It samples running code and can highlight hot spots where cpu cycles are spent, branch mispredictions or cache misse
• (Feb 10, 21:57) MIT - education - very neat mouseover effects. I've never seen a site do something exactly like that
• (Feb 10, 22:02) Instapundit.com: North Korean concentration camps vs. Guantanamo Bay
• (Feb 10, 22:10) "the most remarkable admission of liberal media bias I have ever read"
• (Feb 10, 22:16) Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style, by Peter Norvig (PostScript) - via enki
• (Feb 10, 22:24) !Echo Wiki: lessons learned, by Sam Ruby - via Sam
• (Feb 10, 22:25) RSS, Echo, Wikis, and Personality Wars, by Clay Shirky
• (Feb 10, 22:26) history, personality, and wikis
• (Feb 10, 22:29) History, Personalities, Wikis Redux, by Clay Shirky
• (Feb 10, 22:30) Visualizing how wikis work, by Clay Shirky - neat graphs! Too bad the larger version of the first image is 404'd
• (Feb 10, 23:46) Clark bails. Good riddance.
• (Feb 10, 23:50) USS Clueless - Strategic Overview of the War on Terror
• (Feb 10, 23:52) USS Clueless - Up against the Wall - "As Israel continues to build its security fence along the border of the West Bank, there is rising nervousness approaching panic among the Palestinians and their Arab supporters elsewhere. They hate the idea of the fence, and there's a good reason why."
• (Feb 11, 0:09) Bookpool: Compiling for the .NET CLR
• (Feb 11, 0:10) Instapundit.com: "'I have a question on this WMD thing...'"
• (Feb 11, 0:17) Wunderkinder: To set the record straight - "Political freedom in this country has traditionally meant the right to legislate based on commonly held social values. Of course this should be weighed against the individual freedoms and rights of minority factions. However, in what way do any new freed
• (Feb 11, 0:19) The Fishbowl: Pronunciation of SQL

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