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1.
Denmark 1970: 99% energy from the Middle East. 2000: 0%. 100% energy independent. (nytimes.com)
59 points by ovi256 on Aug 10, 2008 | 67 comments
2.
Clever method of near duplicate detection (glinden.blogspot.com)
39 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
3.
Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language (ourcivilisation.com)
31 points by astrec on Aug 10, 2008 | 11 comments
4.
Time to Vanquish the Mythical Man Month (assembla.com)
27 points by tst on Aug 10, 2008 | 21 comments
5.
Frameworks vs. Libraries in PHP (otton.org)
26 points by pauljonas on Aug 10, 2008 | 12 comments
6.
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (freebsd.org)
25 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008 | 14 comments
7.
Apple's third founder (wikipedia.org)
22 points by gaika on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
8.
Entrepreneurship Advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe (getrichslowly.org)
22 points by iseff on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
9.
Why didn't I start a company in my dorm room and pocket millions before I turned 30? (wordyard.com)
20 points by curtis on Aug 10, 2008 | 3 comments
10.
Birth, death and shopping: The rise and fall of the shopping mall (economist.com)
18 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
11.
Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans (nytimes.com)
16 points by echair on Aug 10, 2008 | 11 comments
12.
The Permission Problem: Patents and Anticommons (newyorker.com)
16 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
13.
AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces (techeblog.com)
16 points by caveman82 on Aug 10, 2008 | 9 comments
14.
Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense (nytimes.com)
16 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 17 comments
15.
7 More Sites to Cut Your Startup Costs (gigaom.com)
16 points by bootload on Aug 10, 2008
16.
What happened to Dropbox, and why some startups are in private beta forever?
15 points by ardit33 on Aug 10, 2008 | 23 comments
17.
They Used to Say Whale Oil Was Indispensable, Too (nytimes.com)
14 points by robg on Aug 10, 2008 | 8 comments
18.
Popularity of Programming Languages by August 2008 (hurricanesoftwares.com)
13 points by wave on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
19.
 Science close to unveiling invisible man (timesonline.co.uk)
13 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
20.
RIAA foiled by "innocent infringement" defense (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)
12 points by echair on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
21.
The Noncompete Ruling Won’t Change Anything, Anywhere (techcrunch.com)
12 points by drm237 on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
22.
Why I Cant Put Tibet in My Hotmail Address (nytimes.com)
12 points by terpua on Aug 10, 2008
23.
Is Google a Media Company? (nytimes.com)
12 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 16 comments
24.
Zoho Founder Offers 5 Rules for Recruiting Well (gigaom.com)
12 points by jmorin007 on Aug 10, 2008
25.
A Conversation with Christos Papadimitriou (ddj.com)
11 points by jonmc12 on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
26.
Dutch paving stones clean air pollution (cnet.com)
10 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008
27.
Indiahacker.com -- request for review (indiahacker.com)
9 points by scoobee99 on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
28.
Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine (thecrimson.com)
8 points by alexwg on Aug 10, 2008 | 3 comments
29.
Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience (techcrunch.com)
8 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
30.
Explosion in Toronto - Twitter is Where the News Happens (trending.us)
8 points by geuis on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments

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