links for 2007-09-16

• Can’t be good: Lake boiling with methane | Science Blog
  (tags: uh_oh global_warming science environment)
• flickrvision (beta)
  (tags: photography maps geography mashups visualization)
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster | High Scalability
  (tags: optimization scalability RoR architecture)
• Amazon.com: Half Life: A Novel: Books: Shelley Jackson
  (tags: books)
• New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux – Boing Boing
  (tags: ack drm apple music)
• No Exit, No Strategy – New York Times
  This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cu
  (tags: usa politics war iraq comment)
• Magic Multi-Connections
  (tags: RoR database)
• Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second — Thought Palace
  (tags: scalability)
• Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive into mark]
  (tags: RoR amusements satire)
• How to make Backpack dividers linkable
  (tags: tips productivity)
• Adding footnotes to to-do list items
  for backpack
  (tags: productivity tips)
• Google Launches Australian Election Site
  In what is claimed to be a world first (for Google), Google Australia has launched a dedicated Australian Election site.
  (tags: huh politics australia google)
• Dr Nic » Magic Multi-Connections: A “facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time”
  (tags: ruby RoR database scalability)
• Quoted-Printable: Scribbish
  theme
  (tags: wp)
• Books | Confronting the beast
  The secret allure and the greatness of literature, the secret that sends us to it over and over again, with enthusiasm and a longing to find refuge and meaning, is that literature can repeatedly redeem for us the tragedy of the one from the statistics of
  (tags: books writing literature war society)
• Shovelglove: The Sledgehammer Workout
  (tags: health amusements)
• Everyday Systems: overcome Gluttony, Sloth, etc.
  (tags: psychology)
• Guardian | ‘You’ve gotta think, think BIG’
  Robert Draper was granted extraordinary access when he was writing his book about US president George Bush. And the details he reveals – such as the strict routines and obsessive exercise – are now the talk of Washington
  (tags: usa politics books)
• Amazon.com: The Closed Circle: Books: Jonathan Coe
  (tags: books)

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