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31.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains-- of his technology. (nytimes.com)
6 points by robg on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
32.
Using hashes to detect resized images (somethinkodd.com)
5 points by soundsop on Aug 24, 2008
33.
 Ruby best practice patterns, by Rein Henrichs (dev-logger.blogspot.com)
5 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
34.
Best cheap office chair for startups?
5 points by NextNetNow on Aug 24, 2008 | 8 comments
35.
Crowd Funding: A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want (nytimes.com)
5 points by jakewolf on Aug 24, 2008
36.
The 4-Stages of Testing Your Web Product (gigaom.com)
5 points by arjunlall on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
37.
Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-peruser On Debian Etch (howtoforge.com)
5 points by joschi on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
38.
Maatkit: a toolkit of utilities and tools for MySQL (maatkit.org)
5 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
39.
Hadoop Map/Reduce Tutorial (apache.org)
5 points by soundsop on Aug 24, 2008
40.
How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times: An "Impossible Challenge" Solved and Explained (abc.net.au)
5 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
41.
How Fast Can Humans Go? (time.com)
4 points by soundsop on Aug 24, 2008
42.
Why people hate Java?
4 points by gttg on Aug 24, 2008 | 13 comments
43.
The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes (nytimes.com)
4 points by robg on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
44.
Video game courses a waste of time, say computer bosses (dailymail.co.uk)
4 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
45.
Atlassian - helping large companies compete with open source (hoisie.com)
4 points by marketer on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
46.
 Shard Lessons (addsimplicity.com)
3 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
47.
Only take a job where you’ll learn something. (webworkerdaily.com)
3 points by danw on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
48.
Radically Elementary Probability Theory (book)[pdf] (princeton.edu)
3 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008
49.
Author comes clean: iHologram app was a hoax (davidoreilly.com)
3 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
50.
Too clever to be good at spelling (timesonline.co.uk)
3 points by bootload on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
51.
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record (cnet.com)
3 points by Flemlord on Aug 24, 2008
52.
Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case (techcrunch.com)
3 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2008 | 2 comments
53.
Schrep: Building the world we want, not the one we have (blog.mozilla.com)
3 points by bootload on Aug 24, 2008
54.
Ask YC: I am learning morse code
3 points by btw0 on Aug 24, 2008
55.
AmEx gives their retirees less work and more time to pass along their expertise (businessweek.com)
3 points by robg on Aug 24, 2008
56.
Twitter begins bringing down the spam hammer (venturebeat.com)
3 points by qhoxie on Aug 24, 2008
57.
Erlang: strings, pt 2 (salientblue.com)
2 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008
58.
Erlang: strings (salientblue.com)
2 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008 | 1 comment
59.
Social & CommunicationFirefox Add-ons (addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by CONNA on Aug 24, 2008
60.
Erlang: statistics/prob: spearman Coeff (fullof.bs)
2 points by gtani on Aug 24, 2008

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