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Priceless

The costs of finishing a master’s degree

Social Surgery

Editing one post after it has spread across social networks

Inside Job

A documentary makes the financial crisis easier to understand

Went Wireless

A wireless keyboard and trackpad clear my desk

“Interoperation For Lazy And Eager Evaluation”

My master’s dissertation is approved and published

BD-Live

Blu-ray’s online extras too often amount to more ads

“How Software Companies Die”

A look at how software businesses lose their way

Violent Death Of Human Being Terrific News For Once

The Onion finds an exception to the usual bad news

Osama Bin Laden: Death Of A Mother Fucker

The Onion’s take on Osama bin Laden’s death

Secret Passages

Hidden doors and a particularly appealing chess lock

Disclaimer

A familiar fiction disclaimer gets an absurd application

Radio Jargon

Decoding a line from the dropship pilot in Aliens

60 Parameters Is Too Far

Knuth on asking too much of a font designer

IPhone Calendar Needs Improvement

A calendar view that combines the near future with what’s next

New York Times Pay Wall

Paying for news shouldn’t mean choosing which device can read it

Samsung Clones IPhone, Apple Sues

A side-by-side comparison makes the resemblance hard to miss

Portal 2 Review At IGN

An enthusiastic verdict on Valve’s puzzle sequel

“The Science Of Why We Don’t Believe Science”

A look at why evidence doesn’t always change minds

“Craigslist Apartments”

An apartment hunt with some unusual listings

Quite A Snack

A decidedly monstrous account of Arianna Huffington’s hospitality

Comments Suck

Why blog comments so often turn unpleasant

Cleaning Up The Mess

Obama’s account of the fiscal mess he inherited

The Egg Of Ignorance

A memorable metaphor for overcoming ignorance

Seriously, They Still Make You?

A shopping site goes overboard with Flash

Getting Comfortable With Contracts

A guide to handling agreements as a small business owner

No-Brainer Pinboard Improvements

Two small changes that would make bookmarking easier

You Have To Enable FaceTime

One setting explains the missing call button

The Star Wars Fan’s Burden

Penny Arcade on the trials of loving Star Wars

New Goodies

A MacBook Air and Canon S95 join my collection

Automated Compelling Reason Testing

The upgrade incentive nobody wrote a test for

Something Wrong With Literally Everything In Apartment

The Onion captures an apartment full of small failures

Minecraft

My first session turns mining into an absorbing pastime

Web Video Ad Conspiracy Theory

A suspiciously convenient cycle of crashes and repeated ads

C’s Faults

A list of frustrations with the C programming language

I Just Learned Markdown

A simpler way to format writing wins me over

Focus Yourself

A Silverlight control needs to request keyboard focus itself

Silverlight Inherited Properties

Finding which dependency properties a control template must bind

Dedicated Hardware Needed For Flash

The hardware demands behind smooth Flash playback

Apple, Tsunami Fallout Haven

An Apple store offers shelter and a way to reach loved ones

Teamwork

Dilbert on the compromises of working together

How Do You Survive A Riptide?

Learning how to escape a dangerous coastal current

“What Would Feynman Do?”

Imagining Feynman in a software engineering interview

Xcode 4 Released

A cheaper, more integrated development environment from Apple

Going With HTML Instead Of Silverlight

Comparing two approaches to building for the web

No Secure Deletion For SSDs

Why familiar erase methods may fail on solid-state storage

The Helvetica Pretender

A look at Arial’s relationship to Helvetica

Mac OS Lion

A promising set of changes for the Mac

Stunning New Zealand Earthquake Pictures

Images of the devastation in Christchurch

Apple Keynote

Impressive presentation animations at an appealing price

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