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From bikinis to burkas

In his childhood, Toronto writer Kamal Al-Solaylee recalls a cosmopolitan, secular family from southern Yemen. Today his sisters and brothers are close-minded Islamists. As one middle-class clan loses its own struggle with extremism, so goes the country.

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What's going on with OAuth?

I didn't quite follow what has happened the last few weeks - but this is important. "nine times out of ten you should continue deploying OAuth 1.0a"

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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Oh so very true.

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Things I am not allowed to do any more.

I should write a list like that. It might be just as long as that one.

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How Do You Look When Merging Fails

Hahaha, this should be standard in all our projects from now on. I have seen so many mergefail-faces on my co-workers (and they on me)

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Vintage Ad Browser

Nice - 100000+ vintage advertisements from the 1840s to the 2000s, neatly tagged and organized.

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The Mystery Of The Fruit Fly Penis Solved With Lasers

To anyone who doubts modern science still pursues essential lines of inquiry into the most pressing questions of our time, we present this resounding rebuttal. Two fearless truth seekers used lasers to figure out why fruit fly penises look weird.

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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

Performance, Smoking and the Nexus One

January 8, 2010 1:00 pm

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th:

  • Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do – Smashing Magazine – Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation.
  • Felicia Day » Blog Archive » Disappointment – [..] the fact that they were interested in doing a piece about Twitter and New Media gave me hope that a magazine firmly in the “establishment” was interested in exploring the subject in a new light. And then during breakfast I saw some weird Twitter comments go by…and then I read the article…and oh, gosh. Really?!
    I can’t tell you how many hours I had to resist rage Tweeting about this subject. The use of inane Twitter lingo like “Twilebrity”, “Tweeple” and “Twitformation Superhighway” (Oh God please stop) just signaled that the writer obviously wasn’t well-researched about the service, or the internet in general, really.
  • Learning to Smoke – It's not permitted. It pisses people off. It makes you puke. It confuses you, and it brings clarity. It makes you an outcast, and it helps you meet wonderful strangers. Lessons from a man who did the unthinkable.
  • How to say stupid things about social media – Criticising social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is as pointless as knocking people who discuss the weather
  • A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One – O’Reilly Radar – There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I'm going to focus on what Android's latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape – what I've elsewhere called the war for the web.

Styrofoam Androids and Cowbells at Home Depot

January 6, 2010 12:00 am

These are my links for January 5th from 11:10 to 23:01:

Nic Cage as Everyone

January 4, 2010 3:25 pm

These are my links for January 2nd through January 4th:

MyBlogLog and Duke Nukem get killed.

January 2, 2010 12:00 am

These are my links for December 22nd through January 1st:

Bookmarks for December 18th through December 21st

December 21, 2009 2:00 am

These are my links for December 18th through December 21st:

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 17th

December 17, 2009 12:00 am

These are my links for December 9th through December 17th:

Bookmarks for December 4th through December 9th

December 9, 2009 11:02 am

These are my links for December 4th through December 9th: