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• Wordpress 2.3.1 about to be released
• Fake Steve Jobs on last night’s Facebook kegger
• 24, season 7 preview (video) - The best show on TV is almost back!  Ditching CTU was a good idea, not so sure about bring TA back from the “dead” though, so I’ll be really interested to see the explanation behind that one.

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• GMail adds IMAP functionality - Woooo!  I heart you google.  It will be interesting to see how they handle IMAP inboxes considering they preach “Don’t delete your email!”
  
• Google Calendar Now Works With Gears - Unverified.  Google gets another Wooooo! from me today if it is true.
• Microsoft buys 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million - No frickin’ way is Facebook worth $15 billion.  Keep drinking the Zuckerberg kool-aid Microsoft.
• Why Facebook is Worth $15 Billion - You can keep drinking the kool-aid too.
• DumbledorePride.com - Hah!  You knew it was only a matter of time.

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• Yahoo Caught Cookie Stuffing - They again remind me why I don’t use their search.
• KDE 4 Screenshots - Ooooo… Purty.
  

• There are now more US World of Warcraft players than farmers - Can’t say I’m shocked, mostly just an eye-opener.
• How 9 tech companies burned through 2 billion dollars - etoys.com, pets.com, kozmo.com, go.com, etc… represented just about everything that was wrong in the early web.  Glad you provided (costly) learning lessons for the rest of us.
• Pissed off customer calls Dell Tech Support - I think we all share his frustration.
  
• Mozilla’s Moola - Mozilla financial report says it had a revenue of $66 million last year with $56 million coming from Google.  Who says open-source doesn’t pay?
• 250,000 of the 1.4 million iPhones sold have gone to unlockers - In other news, some AT&T exec just threw his chair out the window.

Google’s Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues (NY Times)- Would you people shut up?  This is all we’ve been hearing over the last couple weeks.  Don’t you fear-mongers say this about every Google purchase?  How about you focus on AT&T providing illegal wire-taps, Comcast making a boatload off wire-tapping, and the Bush administration seeking retroactive immunity for telcos which it admits have been breaking the law (why seek immunity if they haven’t been?).  I trust Google a hell of a lot more than I trust our own government.  That aside, Jaiku rocks, the only information Jaiku & Google will have is the information you choose to give it.  Worried about privacy?  Don’t use it.  That simple.

• Just a link to some themes for a new Wordpress blog I’m thinking about starting
• BitTorrent Gets More Social with AllPeers - Social Bittorrent?  This could get interesting.  And hey… anything to make BT easier for the masses is great for the technology cause I cringe everytime I have to explain what it is or how to use it to a novice.
• Social.FM Signs Microsoft Deal, Launches New Client - Just came across this service.  Free music + Smartphone client = me likey.
• List of 4-letter domain names - Sadly anything pronounceable is long gone, but there are still a few thousand left.

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• Cowboys try to buy “cowboys.com” for $275 in an auction
• This is what happens when Lawyers invade the internet
• Feedburner + Wordpress how-to - With my recently upgraded blog, figured it was time to hook it up through feedburner. So, if you like want to use RSS to read my blog, subscribe to my feed.
• My Lifestream Pipe - I created what is essentially an aggregator for all my personal RSS feeds (blogs, microblogs, Netflix, Flickr, Picasaweb, etc…) and ran them all through a filter with Yahoo Pipes. While it appears to be somewhat buggy (varying results every run), it’s still pretty cool. I love yahoo pipes! At first I didn’t quite “get it” but knew the potential was there, but now it’s so easy to use and a very intuitive concept.

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• Daily Show archives now online
• Ruby comes to the browser - Looks like some folks have been able to integrate ruby scripting into the web browser, which opens up a whole new world if it actually catches on and matures. Personally, I like Javascript, a lot, but there are some things with it that I think can be improved on. Mainly, it’s syntax can sometimes be backwards thinking when compared to a crisp and well thought out OO language like Ruby. I doubt anything major will come of Ruby as a browser scripting language, but the concept is cool and it can do nothing but help out the web development world, so I’m excited to see what happens with it. If you can soon do <script type=”text/ruby”>…</script>, I wonder how far off <script type=”text/php”>…</script> is?
• Video of Snowball the cockatoo dancing to Backstreet Boys - Pretty unbelievable!
• “Focused Jayhawks plan to remain a Big 12 contender” - YEAH! My boys are 6-0, and heading towards the title!
• How much money to BitTorrent sites really make in ads? - $60k / month? Yikes. I’m sure at least half of that goes towards expenses. Hope they enjoy the lawsuits that are inevitably coming.
• A great how-to in setting up Ubuntu as a full blown server

• 25 useful Greasemonkey scripts you should take a look at

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• Apple opening up the iPhone - Finally
• My Jaiku - Finally got an invite. Woo! I really like the concept of using their service as a RSS feed aggregator. I think I’ll still stick with Twitter for my microblogging for now.

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• Hatebook - Reminds me a lot of Post Secret in that it gives you insight into random people’s biggest fears, regrets, and frustrations in life.
• rTorrent how-to - I keep needing to find that guide every now & then, so figured I’d save it here.
• twitter.com/derek - I just went through an added a bunch of friends and invited more. So follow me if you are on the site.

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• Fox News’ John Gibson is a racist hack
• Gore awarded with Nobel Peace Prize - Maybe history will look back 50 years from now and see that it was better he didn’t win in 2000 considering the good he’s done for climate awareness. Will this put the pressure on him to run in ‘08?
• Jenna Bush answers why she isn’t serving in in Iraq - “I understand that point, but there are many ways to serve our country, and I think my skills are better suited for teaching and representing the U.S. in Latin America through unicef. I respect the men and women of our country who are over there fighting. It is an unbelievably selfless thing to do. But if people really thought about it, they would know it’s not even a practical question.”
• Stephen Colbert may run for President - I was wondering when he’d announce his candidacy, now it looks like he will. Great PR move.
• Star Wars Trumpet performance - Holy crap, this is absolutely hilarious.
• Girls tricked into making out with monkeys - Wrong on so many levels, but I laughed. I’m amazed these people weren’t sued.

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• Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
• The Five P’s of Improving Your About Page
• Ron Paul: A New Hope - I’m not a conservative, but the views of Paul are so radically different from the rest of the Neo-Consrvative movement that have put the US in it’s current sad state, that I’d be overjoyed if he got the republican bid over Guiliani, Romney, or McCain.
• Portal - The Flash Version - 2D Flash version of an insanely cool 3D game that Valve just came out with.
• RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch Hunt - Madonna is the latest to be added to a list that includes Oasis, Nine Inch Nails, and Jamiroquai to ditch the record labels and go independent.
• PHP Adsense RSS feed generator
• Sync your MS smartphone with Google Calendar - I’ve been looking for something like this since I got my Treo 700w a year ago. This is awesome!

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• 41 Reasons Why Your Blog Probably Sucks
• Radiohead - In Rainbows - Downloaded their new album today. Ehh… like most other Radiohead stuff, I just can’t get into it.
• “This is a really amazing video of a symphony using scenes from classic video games to orchestrate their music. This is one symphony I wouldnt be bored to tears at.”
• “The Cinnamon Challenge”. Just don’t inhale…

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