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		<title>Bookmarks for 8 Feb 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the government need 8,000 IT staff?&#34;Despite the government having outsourced the majority of its IT delivery, research by Computer Weekly has revealed that Whitehall still has 8,000 in-house IT staff.&#34; Although it&#039;s not clear if these are people on the helpdesk, configuring tank systems, or anything else. (dopost employment government ) Coding Horror: Farewell [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240114821/Does-the-government-need-8000-IT-staff">Does the government need 8,000 IT staff?</a><br />&quot;Despite the government having outsourced the majority of its IT delivery, research by Computer Weekly has revealed that Whitehall still has 8,000 in-house IT staff.&quot; Although it&#039;s not clear if these are people on the helpdesk, configuring tank systems, or anything else. (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exchange.html">Coding Horror: Farewell Stack Exchange</a><br />Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror is leaving Stack Exchange: &quot;Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange have been wildly successful, but I finally realized that success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/jobs">jobs</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/stack_exchange">stack_exchange</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/02/06/5000-apis-facebook-google-and-twitter-are-changing-the-web/">5,000 APIs: Facebook, Google and Twitter Are Changing the Web</a><br />&quot;Our API directory has hit another major milestone. We now list 5,000 APIs, just a short four months since passing 4,000. No longer is the web simply about links connecting one site to another. Instead, developers are using tools to connect data and functionality from one site to another site.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/apis">apis</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120206/is-gigaom-buying-paidcontent/">Is GigaOM Buying paidContent? &#8211; Peter Kafka &#8211; Media &#8211; AllThingsD</a><br />&quot;Who wants to pay for paidContent? We&rsquo;ll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/acquisition">acquisition</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/paid_content">paid_content</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/nearly-3-years-later-deleted-facebook-photos-are-still-online.ars">Over 3 years later, &quot;deleted&quot; Facebook photos are still online</a><br />&quot;Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/privacy">privacy</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/facebook">facebook</a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 7 Feb 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2012/02/08/2260</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Is It So Hard for New Musical Instruments to Catch On? &#8211; Atlantic Mobile&#34;Why has there been such a drought of new instruments&#8212;especially in rock and pop, which thrive on novelty?&#34; (music history eigenharp ) InfoQ: Can the Kanban Method Avoid Becoming another Management Fad? (dopost presentation video kanban ) Financing IT versus managing [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/why-is-it-so-hard-for-new-musical-instruments-to-catch-on/252668/">Why Is It So Hard for New Musical Instruments to Catch On? &#8211; Atlantic Mobile</a><br />&quot;Why has there been such a drought of new instruments&mdash;especially in rock and pop, which thrive on novelty?&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/music+history+eigenharp">music history eigenharp</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Kanban-Management-Fad">InfoQ: Can the Kanban Method Avoid Becoming another Management Fad?</a><br /> (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/presentation">presentation</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/kanban">kanban</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2011/02/financing-it-versus-managing-assets">Financing IT versus managing assets</a><br />&quot;&#8230;isn&rsquo;t financing IT projects more like a funding venture? Isn&rsquo;t it more about managing risk to achieve reward (the desired outcome or better) rather than managing cost and schedule?&quot; Hmm, maybe. (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/risk">risk</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/investment">investment</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/portfolio_management">portfolio_management</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2012/02/managing-costs-provides-a-false-sense-of-security">Managing costs provides a false sense of security</a><br />&quot;Budgeting has become such a ritual I wonder if managers think it gives them operational control of everything going on?&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/project_management">project_management</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/budgets">budgets</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/agile">agile</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eigenlabs.com/downloads/presentations/">Eigenlabs DevCon 2012</a><br />Video presentations about the inside of the Eigenharp and its software (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/presentation">presentation</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/eigenharp">eigenharp</a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 6 Feb 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6 levels of web app interactivity &#8211; Michael Mahemoff &#8211; Google (applications javascript user_interfaces dopost ) VexFlow &#8211; HTML5 Music EngravingImpressive: &#34;VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG.&#34; (api dopost library music html5 ) Well, [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/7yVDnMaPH4X">6 levels of web app interactivity &#8211; Michael Mahemoff &#8211; Google</a><br /> (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/applications+javascript+user_interfaces+dopost">applications javascript user_interfaces dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://vexmachines.com/">VexFlow &#8211; HTML5 Music Engraving</a><br />Impressive: &quot;VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/api">api</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/library">library</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/html5">html5</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-is-facebook-worth-2012-2">Well, Now We Know What Facebook&#8217;s Worth&mdash;And It&#8217;s Not $100 Billion</a><br />&quot;How much is Facebook worth? Probably about $75 billion&mdash;with a wide range of reasonable differences of opinion around that number. How do we get there?&quot; Answers provided. (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/financials">financials</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/valuation">valuation</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/ipo">ipo</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/facebook">facebook</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-article/perfect-benchmark.html">The Perfect Benchmark | Quality Digest</a><br />&quot;The idea of benchmarking seems plausible enough&mdash;compare your organization against competitors, and voil&aacute;&hellip; you can provide many years&rsquo; worth of projects and plans to bridge the gap. Many organizations choose to do so, but is it really worthwhile? No.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/management">management</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/benchmarking">benchmarking</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/metrics">metrics</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/measurement">measurement</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/with-govuk-british-government.html">With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform &#8211; O&#8217;Reilly Radar</a><br />&quot;GOV.UK is a watershed in how government approaches Web design, both in terms of what you see online and how it was developed. The British team of developers, designers and managers behind the platform collaboratively built GOV.UK in-house using agile development and the kind of iterative processes one generally only sees in modern Web design shops.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/beta_gov">beta_gov</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/development">development</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/neil-young-is-right-piracy-is-the-new-radio/">Neil Young is right &mdash; piracy is the new radio &mdash; Tech News and Analysis</a><br />&quot;Instead of railing against file-sharers, Young called piracy &ldquo;the new radio&rdquo; because it&rsquo;s &ldquo;how music gets around.&rdquo;&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/file_sharing">file_sharing</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/piracy">piracy</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/neil_young">neil_young</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/colophon-beta/">Colophon for the GOV.UK beta | Government Digital Service</a><br />List of software and services used in beta.gov.uk. All common services, open source software, and it&#039;s hosted on github. (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/beta_gov">beta_gov</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/software">software</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/01/31/this-is-why-we-are-here/">This is why we are here | Government Digital Service</a><br />&quot;About 10 minutes ago we released the next step on our journey toward a single domain for government &ndash; and it has been driven entirely by focusing on user needs: creating simpler, quicker, easier to find information and transactions.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/01/31/beta/">Introducing the beta of GOV.UK | Government Digital Service</a><br />&quot;The GOV.UK beta builds on years of work and learning across government and outside it about how to deliver great services to users. [...] It&rsquo;s important to remember though &ndash; GOV.UK is just a beta test. It is not finished and may not be accurate and completely up to date &ndash; if you&rsquo;ve got actual business to conduct with Government you should continue do it via Directgov.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2012/02/beta-gov-uk/#axzz1l5OkXsFb">Gov.uk launches one UK government website to rule them all | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub &#8211; Industry analysis &ndash; FT.com</a><br />&quot;Mr Maude said that the new gov.uk was a prime example of this new &ldquo;agile and iterative&rdquo; approach, built entirely using open-source software and put out for public testing to improve it before a final release later this year.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2012/02/hacker-way.html">Lessons Learned: The Hacker Way</a><br />&quot;The true test of corporate pronouncements and mission statements is not whether they sound good, but rather whether they reflect a real commitment. So on its eight-year anniversary, I think it&#039;s appropriate to take a look at what Facebook looked like at the beginning.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/ipo">ipo</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/culture">culture</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/facebook">facebook</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.extremestartups.com/fakegrimlock-secret-laws-startups/">SECRET LAW OF STARTUPS, PART 1 &#8211; a guest post by FAKEGRIMLOCK</a><br />&quot;THIS LAW 1: BE SHOES&quot;&#8230; and other great insights for startups, from FAKEGRIMLOCK (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/lean_startups">lean_startups</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/advice">advice</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/startups">startups</a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 5 Feb 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2012/02/05/2252</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the beta of Gov.uk means for public services&#34;GDS has a remit to fundamentally change public services to a &#34;digital by default&#34; model and Gov.uk is the first phase of delivering that goal. Simplicity is the key message behind the beta version of the site.&#34; (launch dopost interview beta_gov government gds ) Check With Climate [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240114669/What-the-beta-of-Govuk-means-for-public-services">What the beta of Gov.uk means for public services</a><br />&quot;GDS has a remit to fundamentally change public services to a &quot;digital by default&quot; model and Gov.uk is the first phase of delivering that goal. Simplicity is the key message behind the beta version of the site.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/launch">launch</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/interview">interview</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/beta_gov">beta_gov</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/government">government</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/gds">gds</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577193270727472662.html">Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate &mdash; Letters to the Editor &#8211; WSJ.com</a><br />Climate scientists respond to the WSJ&#039;s anti-climate-change editorial: &quot;Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. [...] You published &quot;No Need to Panic About Global Warming&quot; (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/wsj">wsj</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/climate_change">climate_change</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/facebook-files-for-an-i-p-o/">Facebook Files for an I.P.O. &#8211; NYTimes.com</a><br />&quot;Facebook, the vast online social network, took its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company on Wednesday as it filed to sell shares on the stock market.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/facebook">facebook</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/ipo">ipo</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://randybrown.us/2012/02/03/my-road-back/">My Road Back | simple, but not simpler</a><br />&quot;So happy I decided to create music again&#8230;&quot; Nice story (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/music+eigenharp">music eigenharp</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3">Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? &#8211; Quora</a><br />Briefly notorious answer to the question in a hiking metaphor. (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/analogy">analogy</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/project_management">project_management</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/estimation">estimation</a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 2 Feb 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking? &#124; Wired Science &#124; Wired.com&#34;The food pairing hypothesis is the idea that foods that go best together contain similar molecular components. While this sounds elegant, Ahn and his collaborators set out to determine whether or not this is true.&#34; (maths dopost science food cooking ) The Thing About GitHow [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/are-there-fundamental-laws-of-cooking/">Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking? | Wired Science | Wired.com</a><br />&quot;The food pairing hypothesis is the idea that foods that go best together contain similar molecular components. While this sounds elegant, Ahn and his collaborators set out to determine whether or not this is true.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/maths">maths</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/science">science</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/food">food</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/cooking">cooking</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git">The Thing About Git</a><br />How to make good use of git&#039;s staging area (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/version_control">version_control</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/git">git</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/tips">tips</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html">git ready &raquo; the staging area</a><br />&quot;One of the most essential concepts to Git is that of the staging area. Its use can fundamentally change how you work, for the better!&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/version_control">version_control</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/git">git</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://lizkeogh.com/2012/01/30/the-real-cost-of-change/">Liz Keogh&#8217;s blog &raquo; The Real Cost of Change</a><br />&quot;That desire to control change creates a reinforcing feedback loop, in which the cost of change makes us want to invest up-front, which makes the change expensive later on, which makes us want to invest up-front, and so on.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/project_management">project_management</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/change_control">change_control</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/agile">agile</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/waterfall">waterfall</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/planning">planning</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/02/01/tim-cook-defends-choice-of-john-browett-as-apple-retail-chief-in-a-personal-email/">Tim Cook Defends Choice of Browett as Apple Retail Chief</a><br />&quot;Following the appointment of John Browett as Apple&rsquo;s Senior Vice President of Retail yesterday, an outpouring of criticism due to the choice has made many question the move. Browett, as the CEO of the nearly universally panned UK electronics chain Dixon&rsquo;s, was seen as an uninspired choice for the head of retail for a progressive firm like Apple.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/letter">letter</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/jobs">jobs</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/retail">retail</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/apple">apple</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/29/data-pool-3-sun-arrests-murdoch">Mysteries of Data Pool 3 give Rupert Murdoch a whole new headache | Media | The Guardian</a><br />&quot;International&#039;s central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick that breaks the media mogul&#039;s back. It is known as Data Pool 3.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/data_mining">data_mining</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/police">police</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/crime">crime</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/news_international">news_international</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/30/jonathan-franzen-ebooks-values">Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values | Books | guardian.co.uk</a><br />&quot;For serious readers, Franzen said, &quot;a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience&quot;&quot; Serious readers? Or readers that he approves of? (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/reading">reading</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/books">books</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/ebooks">ebooks</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2012/01/daily-mail-website-kim-kardashian-bikini-underwear-reality-tv-success.html">Such modesty from the Daily Mail&#8230; &#8211; The Media Blog</a><br />&quot;The MailOnline meanwhile has set about attracting readers by following the agenda of others &#8211; offering to serve content people were already searching for online. As such, much of the success of the Daily Mail website is the result of a focus on US reality TV, pop music and naked flesh. Lots and lots of naked flesh.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/comscore">comscore</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/mail_online">mail_online</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/daily_mail">daily_mail</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/30/codecademy-becomes-a-platform-now-anyone-can-write-programming-tutorials/">Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials | TechCrunch</a><br />A sort of cross between iBook Author and Demand Media&#8230; &quot;Codecademy has had one big problem: there just aren&rsquo;t that many lessons available. [...] Today, the company is launching a feature that will go a long way toward fixing that. Meet the Codecademy Course Creator. [...] The site doesn&rsquo;t have any current plans to pay contributors, but to help incentivize users to write high-quality courses, Codecademy aims to provide significant exposure to the best lesson creators.&quot; (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/programming">programming</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/authoring">authoring</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/learning">learning</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/codecademy">codecademy</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2011/01/monads-in-c1-introduction.html">Code rant: Monads in C#&ndash;1. Introduction</a><br /> (<a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/programming">programming</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/+monads"> monads</a> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/nik.silver/+dopost"> dopost</a> )</li>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racism And Meritocracy &#124; TechCrunch A brilliant piece by Eric Ries on the most likely reasons minorities are really under-represented in Silicon Valley startup incubators: implicit bias. (startups investment psychology racism ) The life of a software engineer Harsh but&#8230; fair enough (software_development humour cartoon dopost ) A probability paradox? &#124; Understanding Uncertainty Some possible [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/19/racism-and-meritocracy/">Racism And Meritocracy | TechCrunch</a><br />
A brilliant piece by Eric Ries on the most likely reasons minorities are really under-represented in Silicon Valley startup incubators: implicit bias. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/startups">startups</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/investment">investment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/psychology">psychology</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/racism">racism</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Ca7hC.png">The life of a software engineer</a><br />
Harsh but&#8230; fair enough (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://understandinguncertainty.org/probability-paradox">A probability paradox? | Understanding Uncertainty</a><br />
Some possible answers to: &#8220;Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 60% D) 25%&#8221; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/probability">probability</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/maths">maths</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/27/alan-moore-v-vendetta-mask-protest?mobile-redirect=false">Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask | Books | The Observer</a><br />
Good interview with Alan Moore, reflecting on the use of his (?? not artist John Lloyd&#8217;s?) V for Vendetta<br />
mask at the Occupy * protests (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/politics+protest+comics+interview">politics protest comics interview</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://timharford.com/2011/11/back-to-the-glory-days-of-northern-rock/">Tim Harford — Article — Back to the glory days of Northern Rock</a><br />
Great Q&amp;A-style piece on the folly of the government&#8217;s mortgage support plan. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/housing+banking+mortgages+economics">housing banking mortgages economics</a> )</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applidium &#8212; Cracking SiriWell it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &#34;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&#8217;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&#8217;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &#34; (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost ) [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 22 Nov 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Death Of The Spec &#124; TechCrunch&#34;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&#8217;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&#8217;m gonna go one step further in that [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21028160.200-a-field-guide-to-bullshit.html">A field guide to bullshit &#8211; opinion &#8211; 13 June 2011 &#8211; New Scientist</a><br />&quot;How do people defend their beliefs in bizarre conspiracy theories or the power of crystals? Philosopher&nbsp;Stephen Law&nbsp;has tips for spotting their strategies&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/science">science</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/+book"> book</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/+scepticism"> scepticism</a> )</li>
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		<title>Bookmarks for 19 Nov 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2011/11/21/2210</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Death Of The Spec &#124; TechCrunch&#34;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&#8217;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&#8217;m gonna go one step further in that [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/rip-spec/">The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch</a><br />&quot;Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they&rsquo;ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I&rsquo;m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/sales">sales</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-terms-verbatim.html">Search using your terms, verbatim &#8211; Inside Search</a><br />&quot;In the past, we provided users with the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the &ldquo;+&rdquo; operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we&rsquo;ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We&rsquo;ve been listening, and starting today you&rsquo;ll be able to do just that through verbatim search.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google">google</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/">Applidium &mdash; Cracking Siri</a><br />Well it&#39;s not going to last, but it&#39;s clever&#8230; &quot;Today, we managed to crack open Siri&rsquo;s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri&rsquo;s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! &quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/voice_recognition">voice_recognition</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/siri">siri</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://xkcd.com/979/">xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients</a><br />This explains so many past frustrations. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/software_development">software_development</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/cartoon">cartoon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html">Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a><br />Uh-oh&#8230; &quot;Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make&nbsp;cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that&nbsp;the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode&nbsp;complex password in under 5.3 seconds.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/security">security</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hacking">hacking</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/hardware">hardware</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/passwords">passwords</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yelvington.com/content/quick-review-kindle-fire-market-creator">Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com</a><br />&quot;Clayton Christensen&#39;s disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of &quot;good enough&quot; for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The &quot;good enough&quot; line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/kindle_fire">kindle_fire</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/amazon">amazon</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/review">review</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/tablets">tablets</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-quietly-building-a-huge-business-2011-11">Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business</a><br />&quot;In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter&#39;s business, they said Twitter&#39;s ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/business_models">business_models</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/advertising">advertising</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
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<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/google-plus-traffic.html">Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say &#8211; latimes.com</a><br />Some data on Google+ usage. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/data">data</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/google_plus">google_plus</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/social_media">social_media</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/dopost">dopost</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/jobs-at-risk-as-guardian-news--media-reviews-printing-costs/s2/a546800/">Jobs at risk as Guardian News &amp; Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk</a><br />&quot;Guardian News &amp; Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts.&quot; (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/employment">employment</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/guardian">guardian</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/"></a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q">The Lick &#8211; YouTube</a><br />&quot;The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence.&quot; Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (<a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/music">music</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/video">video</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/weird">weird</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/nik.silver/humour">humour</a> )</li>
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