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1.		Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000 Recycled Floating Bottles (ecoble.com)
		49 points by eru on Sept 20, 2008 \| 16 comments
2.		Dolphins swim so fast it hurts (newscientist.com)
		40 points by eru on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
3.		LHC damaged -- research to stop for two months (wired.com)
		36 points by timr on Sept 20, 2008 \| 20 comments
4.		Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar (cogit8.org)
		33 points by iamelgringo on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
5.		Digging Deeper (daringfireball.net)
		29 points by naish on Sept 20, 2008 \| 12 comments
6.		Graphical display of VC money disbursed per state (cozy.org)
		27 points by davidw on Sept 20, 2008 \| 18 comments
7.		New U.S. rules may impact Second Life, other "games of skill" web sites (netfreedomforever.com)
		23 points by ckinnan on Sept 20, 2008 \| 7 comments
8.		Programming Languages are PC OSs circa 1986 (enfranchisedmind.com)
		23 points by raganwald on Sept 20, 2008 \| 10 comments
9.		How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics (wired.com)
		22 points by soundsop on Sept 20, 2008 \| 16 comments
10.		Physics shows that basketball penalty shots should probably be underhand. (discovermagazine.com)
		21 points by DaniFong on Sept 20, 2008 \| 13 comments
11.		The Myth Of Our Free Market Past (theartofthepossible.net)
		19 points by nickmolnar on Sept 20, 2008 \| 2 comments
12.		Omnidrive - Is This The Sad End? (technation.com.au)
		18 points by geedot on Sept 20, 2008 \| 7 comments
13.		The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell (computerworld.com.au)
		15 points by davidw on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
14.		Why Sergey Brin May Have Disclosed His Risk for Parkinson’s (nytimes.com)
		13 points by fleaflicker on Sept 20, 2008 \| 4 comments
15.		Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton (wsj.com)
		12 points by prakash on Sept 20, 2008 \| 5 comments
16.		Large Hadron Collider forced to halt (bbc.co.uk)
		11 points by bradgessler on Sept 20, 2008 \| 1 comment
17.		Ask YC: A measurable way to decide between names for a startup?
		11 points by brm on Sept 20, 2008 \| 20 comments
18.		Goodbye mocks, Farewell stubs (asp.net)
		11 points by baha_man on Sept 20, 2008 \| 4 comments
19.		Don't Interrupt Actions When Users Login (humanmade.org)
		10 points by jaycee on Sept 20, 2008 \| 5 comments
20.		Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date (zdnet.com)
		9 points by nickb on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
21.		WallStreet Crisis Covered with Slinkset (bankertimes.com)
		7 points by rockstar9 on Sept 20, 2008 \| 2 comments
22.		Scientists Double The Capacity Of Ultracapacitors Thanks To Graphene (devicedaily.com)
		7 points by nickb on Sept 20, 2008
23.		Ask YC: Divvying up Equity
		6 points by nated on Sept 20, 2008 \| 5 comments
24.		How to Launch a Startup, Step-by-Step (according to GroundWork Open Source) (talktech.tv)
		5 points by kristinwhite on Sept 20, 2008 \| 1 comment
25.		13 Useful Math Cheat Sheets (math-blog.com)
		5 points by acangiano on Sept 20, 2008
26.		IO Induction: The Green Way of Charging Your iPhone (unplggd.com)
		5 points by pbnaidu on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		NVIDIA's GT200: Inside a Parallel Processor (realworldtech.com)
		5 points by brianmckenzie on Sept 20, 2008
28.		A simple explaination of the financial mess that we are in ... from one of us (furrier.org)
		4 points by dennykmiu on Sept 20, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		Authenticity, Robert Brunner and Steve Jobs (businessweek.com)
		4 points by terpua on Sept 20, 2008 \| 1 comment
30.		First Palin, now Bill O'Reilly gets hacked (peterrost.blogspot.com)
		4 points by vaksel on Sept 20, 2008 \| 3 comments
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