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Kate Hoey's Letter to Vauxhall Labour Party
via Iain Dale's Diary by noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) on May 15, 2008
This is Kate Hoey's explanation to her local Labour members for her decision to join Boris Johnson's administration as Commissioner for Sport. They are not going to be pleased.Dear Member of Vauxhall Labour Party, The Members of this Party are its lifeblood and so I wanted you to be the first to know that I have now agreed to be the Mayor of London's Commissioner for Sport. I have...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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Doctype: You want tests with your copy?
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 15, 2008
Doctype is an exciting beast, and for many reasons. Having a place to collect this data is key, and as I said yesterday, I can’t wait to see it grow as an open resource.The other cool part of Doctype is that there are tests to backup claims. This seems like a “no brainer” as some of my ’sherman’ friends would put it, as it is the corner stone of science.The tests are shown through the...
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Graphene Tech Could 'Save' Touch-Screens
via Discovery News - Technology by Eric Bland, Discovery News on May 15, 2008
The first LCD screens have been created with harder-than-diamond graphene.
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Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
(author unknown) via Coding Horror shared by 2 peopleOne of the things we're thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they're entering on the site. Nothing's decided at this point, but we definitely won't be giving users one of those friendly-but-irritating HTML GUI browser layout controls. I have one iron-clad design...
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In Britain, the Economy, Stupid
via RealClearPolitics - britain by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
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Why always "Windows XP" and "Windows Vista" and not just "XP" and "Vista"?
via The Old New Thing by oldnewthing on May 14, 2008
... robotic approach to reading:"||Burning off another footnote marker because I don't like parallellines either.¶An exaggeration, not a statement of fact.#s/Office/Microsoft® Office™ System/****I have not researched whether that's the correct way of writing it.††Okay, maybe somebody somewhere has gottensued for playing it safe.It was just a catchy sentence, not a statement of fact.
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Inflation, all the way. (Thanks a bunch, Darling)
via Capitalists @ Work by Nick Drew on May 14, 2008
This excellent video**, from the irascible Karl Denninger, offers a salutory perspective on tax give-aways funded by borrowing at times like this.And to think we once wondered whether it was to be inflation or deflation.(On the subject of individual portfolios, BTW, the Drew household is up to the eyeballs in NS&I inflation-plus bonds. This is not financial advice, just a personal...
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