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01/25/12--08:42: The Greenest Building IS The One Already Standing (chan 1234473)

Proof That The Greenest Building IS The One Already Standing Released in New Report From Preservation Green Lab : TreeHugger: Building reuse almost always yields fewer environmental impacts than new construction when comparing buildings of similar size and functionality [The same holds true for almost everything it feels like. So when you can reuse, and [...]


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01/25/12--09:03: d: Why making an effort is a failure (chan 1234473)

I made an effort. I made an extraordinary effort. I made an “all in”, once in lifetime effort. They’re all a failure. Why? Because you make an effort, even an extraordinary one, and not attain your goal. I can cheat myself out of achieving a goal I desire by making an effort. But we make [...]


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01/25/12--09:32: Some thoughts on SOPA and Copyright (chan 1234473)

Franklin Veaux’s Journal – Some thoughts on SOPA and Copyright: People who hold these ideas can not, I think, be persuaded otherwise. A person who feels entitled to something will construct rationalizations about why his entitlement is justified, whether it’s by imagining creativity as some inborn thing like race or sex, or inventing a moral [...]


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01/25/12--17:44: The promise of iCloud (chan 1234473)

There’s an app on my mac called Notational Velocity. It’s a simple note taking app, that has two critical features. It’s searchable in a “that’s how you use it” kinda way. the second is that it stores your notes on Simplenote. So what’s the big deal? I started using Simplenote because I wanted a dead [...]


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01/25/12--18:12: ExtremeTech: “Google is FUBAR” (chan 1234473)

ExtremeTech: “Google is FUBAR”: Google’s “one thing well” has historically been indexed search. While they’ve had “sticky” web applications like Gmail for years, their main focus has been enabling you to get off their site as fast as possible. Google still needs to be able to do that, but now they’ve also declared that they [...]


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01/26/12--03:35: Cars Kill Cities « Progressive Transit (chan 1234473)

Cars Kill Cities « Progressive Transit: Contrary to how it may sound, I do not want to rid the earth of cars.  I just want to use them smarter.  Do you really need a 2-ton vehicle to pickup your dry-cleaning?  Probably not.  Although I do see the appeal in loading a family of 6 into [...]


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01/26/12--08:59: Sandi Metz: SOLID Design Principles – Dependency Injection (chan 1234473)

Sandi Metz: SOLID Design Principles – Dependency Injection: Because of the style of coding in Job, it contains dependencies that effect my ability to refactor and reuse it in the future. [An excellent example of something that was hard to think through in the last significant codebase I worked on. There are always tradeoffs in [...]


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01/26/12--15:11: Tweets still must flow (chan 1234473)

Tweets still must flow: Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why. We haven’t yet used this [...]


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01/26/12--15:16: Hollywood Still Hates You (chan 1234473)

Hollywood Still Hates You: Hollywood continues to completely ignore that lesson. It continues to punish the people who play by the rules with an insufferable customer experience. This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits are down: because doing it right totally sucks. And that’s apparently how the studios want it. [Nailed.] Source: [...]


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01/26/12--17:30: Value | The Cynical Musician (chan 1234473)

Value | The Cynical Musician: Google’s greatest fear, however, is that the content that draws the biggest audiences might be placed beyond its reach. It has seen this happen with Facebook. That’s why Google lobbies against copyright enforcement and for and “open internet” – with the special Googley meaning that “open” has here. It doesn’t [...]


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