Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Quannum from Google Reader: This story strikes a little close to home, because I've faced exactly the same kinds of complaints from some of my students — except that these are Religious Studies students. They are very upset because they consider one of the questions on a standard exam to be "unfair". Here's the question:Question four on Islam, worth 2 (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Quannum from Google Reader: The Android team just released the first official video overview of the upcoming Android 2.0 release. The video, which is geared towards developers, shows off a number of interesting new features, including an improved accounts manager, better contact syncing, easier access to the Android Bluetooth API to connect devices an (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Quannum from Google Reader: Centuries of struggling by artists and musicians to make a living have come to this. While the rest of the music industry is fighting to figure out how to stay viable when so much content is available for free on the internet - the band Weezer may have solved the problem. Weezer released its latest album today, with a Snug (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

GigaOM Yahoo this week moved its open-source cloud computing initiatives up a notch with the donation of its Traffic Server product to the Apache Software Foundation. Traffic Server is used in-house at Yahoo to manage its own traffic, and it enables session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and (Read More)

Sep 14, 2009

MNBeer - Beer from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul and beyond September 21, 20096:00 pmto9:00 pmJoin Lift Bridge and Chef Manfred Krug at The Chef’s Gallery in Stillwater for an evening of beer and ribs. Chef Manfred will be in charge of the ribs, and Lift Bridge will talk and sample beer. Their brews will be incorporated into both the ribs and the side dishes. There will be several (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

readwriteweb Centuries of struggling by artists and musicians to make a living have come to this. While the rest of the music industry is fighting to figure out how to stay viable when so much content is available for free on the internet - the band Weezer may have solved the problem. Weezer released its latest album today, with a Snug (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Delicious hotlist Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placingthose jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds toperform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to backgroundjobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Slashdot: Your Rights Online Archeopteryx writes "According to Wired's 'Gadget Lab' blog, Snow Leopard's next update, OS X 10.6.2, will block the Atom processor and will disable many 'Hackintosh' netbooks. It is indeed true that OS X will run just fine on some netbooks if you install the right drivers and ktexts, but Apple's EULA has always specified t (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

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Oct 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The Android team just released the first official video overview of the upcoming Android 2.0 release. The video, which is geared towards developers, shows off a number of interesting new features, including an improved accounts manager, better contact syncing, easier access to the Android Bluetooth API to connect devices an (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Springwise: Promising new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds Ireland has been particularly hard-hit by the current economic recession, spurring initiatives like the recent iQ Prize, whereby Dublin internet consultancy iQ Content awarded EUR 10,000 to a promising young Irish startup as a way to help kick-start the country's recovery. Proving once again that there are few things as con (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Ruby Inside Just two months ago we posted about Gemcutter, a new RubyGem hosting repository that, we said, was "taking aim at RubyForge and GitHub." It only took six weeks for GitHub to give up on building gems and to start recommending Gemcutter instead. Today, RubyForge is toppled also. Gemcutter developer Nick Quaranto has announced (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

readwriteweb Thanks to mobile developer Nathan Freitas and the teams behind Tor and the Guardian Project, secure, anonymous mobile browsing is on its way.On his blog, Freitas writes, "We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application bundle that installs, runs and provides the glue needed to ma (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Boing Boing Over on the Facebook blog, head of security Max Kelly has just explained what to do to memorialize the profile of someone who has passed away: We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or famil (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

Techmeme Firehose Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company  —  (I'm live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.  Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session.  You can watch it here live or update as we go (Read More)

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