Monthly Archives: September 2009

CMS links for September 19th, 2009

I don’t agree entirely with the first first link from Sunlight Labs – blanket statements like ‘x is dead – use y’ – are poor generalizations – however it raises strong points about frameworks and CMSes. I just wish organizations … Continue reading

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Game teaches teenagers about dangerous social media use

Smokescreen is a privacy and data sharing awareness game for teenagers. via Boing Boing.

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Video – Crash Test: 1959 Chevy Bel Air versus 2009 Chevrolet Malibu

YouTube: Crash test: 1959 Chevy Bel Air:

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One death every 12 seconds due to lack of coverage

Reuters: Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance

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Harnessing Rhino

IBM developerWorks: alt.lang.jre: Harnessing Rhino. Bonus link: js2-mode for Emacs.

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Emacs links for September 19th, 2009

Chmouel Blog: Emacs transparency with mouse wheel – works great. worg: Org-babel (wow I gotta experiment with this)

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The IMDB of programming languages?

Surfing “Influenced by” and “Influenced” links for languages on Wikipedia. Fighting urge to script out a spider that creates a dot diagram. (via me getting it entirely wrong on the lineage of Groovy)

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You can influence a 1,000 people to make a better world – Yes You!

Don’t think you have any influence in this world? You have far more impact than you may realize. Read this weekend’s NYTimes’s piece by Clive Thompson: Is Happiness Catching?. As Rebecca Blood notes, your behavior has ripple effects that trigger … Continue reading

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What dogs see, smell, and know

NYTimes: Book Review: “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know”, By Alexandra Horowitz: Grrr, Sniff, Arf: The idea that a dog owner must become the dominant member by using jerks or harsh words or other kinds of … Continue reading

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Why are we happy?

TED.com: Dan Gillbert asks, Why are we happy?: …When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully. When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of … Continue reading

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