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Creepy article!

Get this:

"A man's severed leg - with a white Adidas sneaker still attached - plummeted from the sky onto a garage roof and bounced into the backyard of a Long Island home yesterday morning."

Want to know more? Technorati Tags: interesting, gross

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Good stuff from Paul Graham

If you work with software developers you'll appreciate these two pieces by Paul Graham , author of Hackers and Painters, a book that I also recommend heartily. He always has interesting things to say:

"I once claimed that nerds were unpopular in secondary school mainly because they had better things to do than work full-time at being popular. Some said I was just telling people what they wanted to hear. Well, I'm now about to do that in a spectacular way: I think undergraduates are undervalued." (From "Hiring is obsolete")

I also came across this really excellent IT Conversations Podcast of a speech he gave at the Open Source Convention (OSCON), which I also highly recommend (and it would be a good introduction to IT Conversations and Podcasting if you were looking for an excuse 🙂 Technorati Tags: programming, hackers, recommended

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[BLOGBRIDGE] Bloeb: A new kind of web site for BlogBridge

We've been experimenting with a switcharoo of the BlogBridge web site - a major overhaul conceived and prototyped by Francois. (Thanks!) The new site will be going to production tomorrow, but you get to take a look while we are putting the finishing touches on it. What kind of a switcharoo? Well, instead of a conventional site that happened to contain a blog, we jokingly call this a 'bloeb ' (blog+web) site. You've seen web sites with blogs in them, and you've seen blogs with non blog content attached to them, right? Well here we have a full hybrid , with a traditional navigation tree on the left and a bloggish navigation tree on the right. Our FAQs are blog postings. Our announcements are blog postings. In fact it's hard to tell where the blog starts and the site begins. What do you think? ** Update: **The new site is up. So far so great! Technorati Tags: blogbridge

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Dan Bricklin doing some interesting podcasting

I just came off listening to Dan Bricklin's first podcast, an interview with Linda Hamel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about patents , intellectual property and open source. Quite interesting info. I am looking forward to listening to the other ones. One link, right off the bat is to Linda Hamel's own web site with lots of interesting resources about Open Source licensing in the public arena. Particularly cool is this huge Excel chart doing a comparison of all the multitude of open source licenses. Technorati Tags: opensource, legal

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Good article about software design

Just add this one to your reading list:

"(XP) challenges many of the common assumptions about software development. Of these one of the most controversial is its rejection of significant effort in up-front design, in favor of a more evolutionary approach. To its detractors this is a return to "code and fix" development - usually derided as hacking. To its fans it is often seen as a rejection of design techniques (such as the UML), principles and patterns. Don't worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear." (From "Is Design Dead?")"

Thought-provoking. Technorati Tags: software, recommended, technical

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Counting blog impact

Interesting article about counting blogs makes a good point right off the bat:

"First, let's step back and consider why we're counting blogs at all. You no longer see articles that attempt to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Web by stating how many Web pages there are. But blogs are still in the process of entering mainstream consciousness, so numerical credibility is important; bloggers themselves cite the statistics a lot." (from Wall Street Journal Online)

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