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Napkin PC
via MSDN Blogs by stevecla01 on June 16, 2008
You’re looking at the most recent winner of the Microsoft Next-Gen PC Design Competition - Avery Holleman landed the top spot and $20,000 in prize money. Ka-ching. The Napkin PC design closely resembles a Napkin holder, combining multiple touchscreen devices within a collaborative network. Digital pens allow users to draw on these touchscreens just like they would on a napkin. Let’s...
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Winning without Ohio and Florida
via Daily Kos by kos on June 16, 2008
While the media and party establishments still have a hard time getting beyond the traditional battleground state mentality, the Obama campaign continues to push the envelope.Plouffe and his aides are weighing where to contest, and where chances are too slim to marshal a large effort. A win in Virginia (13 electoral votes) or Georgia (15 votes) could give Obama a shot if he, like Kerry, loses...
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The Brits Got Nothing on Us
via Daily Kos by DarkSyde on June 16, 2008
Via Bad Astronomy, several of the world's most famous living scientists are taking aim at proposed deep cuts in research and political interference in UK science: Stephen Hawking has accused the government of making "disastrous" cuts to research funding that threaten the country’s international standing. ... Brian Cox, professor of particle physics at Manchester University, who is closely...
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Trio of 'super-Earths' discovered
via BBC News | Science|Nature | UK Edition by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
Astronomers identify a trio of so-called "super-Earths" - rocky worlds slightly larger than our planet.
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Obama/Clinton support visualizer that rocks
via Signal vs. Noise by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
Shared by Ryan Sholin A NYT data/flash graphic and a Mindy McAdams link on the 37 Signals blog, which everyone in the online department at the NYT and J-Schools should be reading.Interactive NY Times graphic. See it in action.According to “You need this to get a job in journalism,” multimedia experience is becoming increasingly important in newsrooms.Journalists who can flourish in both the...
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Britain, America and YouGov
via CentreRight by Matthew Sinclair on June 07, 2008
... Sigh.We are a lot more pro-free trade. This isn't particularly a surprise but its always nice to see. A majority of Britons think it is a good thing, despite concerns about globalisation.In both countries three quarters of the population support the death penalty for murderers. This surprised me. I thought that in Britain there now wasn't a majority in either direction.
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My issues with the term "Scrum Master"
via AgileJoe by agilejoe on June 07, 2008
... PowerPoint presentation with lots of slides telling you how great Scrum is and different scenarios where Scrum has been applied. Still no epiphany. The day goes on and we get to do hands on Sprint planning meetings, we emphasize the importance of the Daily Scrum. OK been there already, understand the importance feedback, still nothing ground breaking. Next we talk about value stream prio...
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Design for testability - Transparent and opaque dependencies (part 8)
via VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! by malovicn on June 07, 2008
... recommend you to subscribe to Alt.NET mail list where you have daily top notch discussions about various ultra interesting subjects. One of April subjects was Are Opaque Depencies Bad? (Mockist TDD's effect on design) where you can see that some of very smart people were stating that Opaque dependencies are sometime acceptable compromise because they encapsulate complexity and the component ...
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Sandcastle Removed from Codeplex
via Port 25: Open Source Community at Microsoft by Sam Ramji on June 06, 2008
... Sandcastle from Codeplex.I apologize to the OSI on behalf of Microsoft for this mistake.We are strengthening our controls on Codeplex projects and the governance process that we use for Microsoft-led external projects to ensure that this type of error does not happen again.Our policy regarding use of the term Open Source is clear: Open Source refers to projects using OSI-approved licenses.
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More Bad Polls News for Gordon Brown
via Iain Dale's Diary by noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) on June 07, 2008
An ICM poll in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph puts Labour on 26%, only 5 points ahead of the LibDems and 16 behind the Conservatives on 42%. It's Labour's worst ever showing in an ICM poll.
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