Month: August 2009

  • Programming is a lot like writing

    Computer programming is a lot like writing. You use the same tools to do both (chair, computer, scraps of paper) and you have to follow […]

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  • Newspaper industry

    There’s a lot of talk about how the newspaper industry is dying. And there’s some truth to this — NY Times is in debt, Seattle […]

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  • Jejune Institute

    I was walking to my job in the SOMA district of San Francisco one morning, and I came across a strange poster. The content was […]

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  • Bookmark: Auto-Tune the News

    Auto-tune is the latest pop music novelty. Thanks to auto-tune, singers like T-Pain sound like a robot designed to output R&B hits. Michael Gregory (no […]

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  • Bookmark: TheDailyWTF

    It wasn’t so much that Richard, a software engineer, sat in his cubical making animal noises all day — as it was that he was […]

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