May 2009
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Free as in Beer
There is this colloquialism, “Free as in beer” in the open source software development community which I’d never really understood. I wanted to know where these people lived and why they were giving away beer. Then I found the beer-ware license (find another form of the beer-ware license) and things began to make more sense. I’m not sure if this is actually where the term...
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How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR →
A great page explaining exactly how to everyone should use Twitter for marketing and PR. Everyone should read this!
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QuickTip: Coda's Open Quickly
One of the oft touted features of TextMate is it’s ability to quickly open any file in the project. I’m a semi-regular TextMate user and I depend on this feature so much I’ve installed several plugins which replicate some of this functionality in Vim (or MacVim) which is my primary editor. Every once in a I use Coda to edit a site and I just discovered the Open Quickly command it...
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Change what a symbolic link points to
ln -sfh [new target] [old link]
Prescription Porn →
“The next national campaign to hit the airways will be a grand-scale touting of the youth-granting, muscle-building, virility-boosting benefits of testosterone supplements. You may not even think you need more testosterone, but with enough nonstop advertising, you’ll soon realize that you do.”
However, it sounds like there’s an alternative. That’s right, watch porn. It...
Rules for Time Travelers →
Science rules for time travelers.
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Wolfram Alpha →
Impressive data visualization and mapping to answers to simple English queries
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“Two New Jersey hunters go hunting. After a while, one of the hunters clutches...”
– http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/72/realitycheck.html?page=0%2C2
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TBuzz →
The latest installment of Arc90’s awesome bookmarklet skills.
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Background Position magic →
To see the magic of this page incrementally increase and decrease the width of your browser. Awesome.
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