ActionScript 3: The Language of FlexInterview with Adobe Flex evangelist James Ward (actionscript flash programming flex interview ) How often can you say 'beaten at the box-office by a Hollywood Chihuahua'? | Comment is free | The Guardian An American Carol had everything going for it [...] Yet it was beaten at the box office [...]

Using Templates to control edit of an issue – JIRA Extensions – Confluence (jira templates ) APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros and Cons – ReadWriteWeb (mashups rest web_2.0 ) BooRah Restaurant Search API How will this play out if (when) the NYT also launches its restaurant review API? (api restaurant web_services [...]

Times Developer Network – Welcome (nytimes newspapers api ) YDN Theater: All The Code That's Fit To printf() Interview with Derek Gottfrid, Senior Software Architect at The New York Times. (nytimes interview technology ) 'Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially' "On Wednesday, John McCain told Fox News' Sean [...]

Watchmen press preview reveals graphic novel brought to faithful life | Film | guardian.co.uk I'm looking forward to this with some trepidation. So far, not so terrible. (film watchmen ) The Daily Beast Tina Brown's new site. Looks like a print magazine, and designed without ad space, so it'll be one to watch. (news ) [...]

I’ve just spent the day filling a skip, and then phoned the hiring company to say they could take it away, thanks. The woman asked me, “Is it heavy or light?” How could I possibly answer that directly…?

Tina Fey As Sarah Palin In VP Debate On SNL (VIDEO) — A sharp portrayal of the vice-presidential debate. And I think Tina Fey is reassuring as Sarah Palin because we can laugh at her without worrying that she'll actually get to be the Vice President. G1 emulator from T-Mobile — Top 50 photography websites [...]

http://www.usemon.org/ — "Usemon is a monitoring system for usage trends, response time and dependency analysis of plain Java applications or big multi-clustered Java Enterprise applications running in production." Bowblog: A common platform? — Steve Bowbrick's vision (or is it just an idea?) for a BBC Common Platform. "A kind of giant shared computer that exposes [...]

I don’t consider myself good at DIY or house things in general, but in clearing out the loft tonight (part two of a very long series) I discovered my predecessors were even worse. Among the bizarre (three ballcocks) and the puzzling (a broken door that doesn’t fit through the hatch, so how did it get [...]