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These are my links for December 15th through December 29th:

• The loneliness network – The Boston Globe – Loneliness is bad for us. A substantial body of research links loneliness with everything from depression to high blood pressure and cholesterol to poor sleep, weight gain, diminished immunity, and Alzheimer’s disease.

  And if a paper published this month is to be believed, loneliness isn’t just a health risk – it is, like the flu, a contagious one: Lonely people make the people around them lonely, too.

• Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine –
• Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub –
• Nardol: PubSub with XMPP4R-Simple –
• Some experiments with the Google Maps API –

These are my links for November 26th through December 15th:

• Fastest XMPP Sessions with HTTP Pre-Binding –
• lib/geokit/mappable.rb at master from andre's geokit-gem – GitHub – Contains class and instance methods providing distance calcuation services.
• Reel history | The Elephant Man: close to the memoirs but not the man | Film | guardian.co.uk –
• Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory –
• flickr™ wrappr – The flickr wrappr extends DBpedia with RDF links to photos posted on flickr. For each of the 1.95 million DBpedia concepts, the wrappr generates a collection of flickr photos that depict the concept.

These are my links for November 20th through November 26th:

• paperplanes. How To Redis –
• defunkt's hurl at master – GitHub –
• Ohm – Object-hash mapping library for Redis –
• Shades of Gray: Using Key-Value Stores From Ruby –
• apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

These are my links for November 14th through November 20th:

• cyoa –
• Whitechapel – Etsy People Stand Up (late 2009) –
• Underscore.js – Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
• ImageMagick: How do I grayscale? – Ubuntu Forums –
• Blog Entry: Paul F. Tompkins –

These are my links for October 25th through November 12th:

• bixo – Bixo is an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop.
• The Rise of the Neuronovel | n+1 –
• Mind Hacks: Five minutes with Meg Barker –
• How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession –
• 25 ideas for 2010: hyperopia –
• Flavorwire » Blog Archive » Austrian Designer Imagines Clothing Created From Your Body’s Bacteria –
• Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do | Psychology Today –
• The City Is Here For You To Use: (very) provisional bibliography « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird –
• (Field) – Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.
• Codynamix » Cannoli: A Ruby on Rails click heatmaps generator –
• HYPE –
• John Resig – Google Groups is Dead –
• Viruete.com: Librojuegos: rol para una persona –
• Viruete.com: Elige tu propia aventura –

These are my links for September 21st through October 22nd:

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Poles, Politeness and Politics in the age of Twitter « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry –
• XTrace: Debug Flash Applications Without The Flash IDE Open Source Flash – XTrace provides a very nice alternative to the built in trace window that the Flash IDE provides.
• Adobe Flash Player: Ayuda: Pregunta emergente sobre privacidad –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Sometimes I think 96% of the crap that fills the web comes from people not knowing their basic jwz. For example, do you think this industry-defining quote circulates even nearly enough among the im-building-yet-another-social-site crowd?

So I said, narrow the focus. Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

If people would be worshiping and/or getting ink done with these words, then social software as an industry would be in a much, much more serious place right than it is today .

These are my links for September 10th through September 17th:

• TimeAPI – TimeAPI is an API to get dates/times from natural language queries based on Chronic.
• A list of all 22,802 words in the Scribblenauts dictionary. : gaming –
• Introducing JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript – JSTalk's goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• How do I clone all remote branches with Git? – Stack Overflow –

These are my links for August 29th through September 9th:

• Form constant – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – A form constant is one of several geometric patterns which are recurringly observed during hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
• abhishek.geek.nz – Before you start learning Lisp – This article dispels some untrue preconceptions commonly held by novices venturing into Lisp.
• Focal point (game theory) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – In game theory, a focal point (also called Schelling point) is a solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special or relevant to them.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• remi :: Rack Basics – If you’re a Ruby programmer and you’ve never directly used Rack before then this screencast is for you. This introduces you to the very basics of Rack.

These are my links for August 23rd through August 28th:

• Words for Webstock – Bruce Sterling –
• Jani's at the mercy of her mind — latimes.com –
• Tile Drawer – Tile Drawer makes designing and hosting custom maps simple and straightforward. The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.
• The Afterlife of Paper Redux « bibliostructures –
• The Boy Who Heard Too Much : Rolling Stone –