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Listen carefully, I shall say this only once

Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008 Welcome to nerds’ corner, and yet another small print criticism of a trivial act of borderline dubiousness which will ultimately lead to distorted evidence, irrational decisions, and bad outcomes in what I like to call “the real world”...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times

Some computers are never turned off, or at least rarely see any state less active than "standby," but others (for power savings or other reasons) need rebooting — daily, or even more often. The New York Times is running a short article which says that it's not just a few makers like...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
Windows 7 Blog

The Windows 7 Blog for Developers Here is an effort to highlight the&;Windows 7 development story, a story that got lost with Windows Vista .&;Now we hope that the Windows 7 Evangelism team will join with the community to create an open and direct dialog about the development and developing for...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
After McCain’s mea culpa on Letterman, Larry King wants an apology too.

After abruptly canceling on him in September, last week Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went back to David Letterman’s show, where he apologized and admitted he “screwed up.” On his blog on Friday, Larry King said that he is waiting for McCain to offer him the same courtesy, after abruptly...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
“Sky isn’t falling” blogger says

Steven Hodson, over at the Inquistr blog, says “the sky isn’t falling” and “What do we get instead? We get people like Robert Scoble who have for the last few days done nothing more than highlight everything bad going on.” Ahh, yes, ye olde blame the messenger post. See...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-11-2008
The Expelled Strategy: How Maher Got His Interviews [Framing Science]

If Bill Maher's strategy for landing interviews for his mockumentary Religulous sounds familiar, it's because it's the same method that Ben Stein & co. used for Expelled . From an LA Times blog : So how did Maher manage to get all these people to actually talk to him? Since "Religulous"...

Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Kanye Bumps Album Up, Single Debuts At No. 3

So much for the Kanye West/50 Cent album showdown in December. Originally due Dec. 16, West's new album "808s & Heartbreak" is now arriving on "November something," according to a West blog post.

Posted to Pop by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
Blogging, changing every day

Interesting to see the reactions to Technorati’s latest “State of the Blogosphere” post. My reaction matches Duncan Riley’s. I’ve been investing nearly all of my available time on FriendFeed lately, which is why my blog has slowed down to a mere trickle compared to how often...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
My “alignment” with TC50

Alec Saunders, in a comment over on his blog where he said I came off very poorly in my rant about the startups at Demo’s websites questions my “alignment” with TC50. I think that’s worth pointing out here. I have not shared a meal in the past few months with Mike Arrington. Last...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-07-2008
Building Business Applications with Silverlight?

I'd love to hear feedback and thoughts you have about building business focused applications with Silverlight. What is motivating you to consider Silverlight? if you have already started to evaluating, what is easy or hard about it? Related, Blaine recently posted a survey on his blog...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

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