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Jul 31st

Vectoring Ruby On Rails: Encoding problems →

Jul 27th

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BBtv: Syd Mead with Joel Johnson pt. 3: BLADE RUNNER

Jul 27th

Jul 25th

Times Higher Education - All the privileged must... →

The banality and sense of entitlement of rich students at Harvard left John H. Summers feeling his teaching had been degraded to little more than a service to prepare clients for monied careers

Jul 24th

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Nginx Upload Module →

Jul 23rd

Leadership on The Wire →

Don’t try to change what’s beyond your control. So many of the characters try to make things better, but very few succeed in the face of institutional corruption and constraints on mobility aspirations; witness the demise of Stringer Bell, erstwhile B-school student, who reached too far too fast in his quest to rise above the streets. Those that do succeed take one step at a time,...

Jul 23rd

The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an... →

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Mike Tyson Mansion - illicitohio.com →

Jul 21st

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Jul 20th

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Appropriate Technology - Latest Inventions From... →

MIT’s Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day From impoverished Peruvian villages to MIT’s D-Lab, professor Amy Smith and her spirited team of engineers are on a mission: Fight global poverty and improve living standards for developing countries—one low-cost, accessible invention at a time.

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Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America at Sketchfest NYC | Laughing Squid

Jul 16th

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MySpaceTV Videos: Sayvinyl - The Making of God Forbid by sayvinyl

Jul 16th

Get Venture by Mark Peter Davis: The... →

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A conversation with Jamie Dimon - Charlie Rose

Jul 9th

div height errors in IE

nikography: really important note to self: if you have div in IE6 and you can’t get it’s height to budge below a certain number (and it’s not empty, that’s a whole ‘nother issue) try giving it overflow: hidden. if it’s still being stubborn, float it. i can possibly save myself 1 hour of “wtf” next time this arises. edit: this wasn’t the normal line-height/font-size deal, as lots of people...

Jul 8th

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“It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes...”

– The Value Of Science

Jul 7th