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Snippets » April 2006

• YouTube spends 1 million a month on bandwidth, raised 11.5 million in VC money → you do the math #
• tracking location via routing updates → the same as cell tower location updates, but on a slightly less granular scale. Uses BGP #
• is there something worse than reading the Da Vinci Code? → Titab says, yes, yes there is. #
• is your son (or cousin or second cousin or relation) a computer hacker? → ZOMG H4X! #
• the ultimate commenting experience → applies to pretty much everything I do, I guess #
• Motorola patents a new “therapeutic” phone → Beats gerbils any day of the week, I’m sure. #
• the balance of risk → wearing protective gear in a contact sport just means you’ll be less controlled with your actions. Or so the article argues. #
• automattic ceo interview → raising a family in San Francisco is expensive - so much so that one multi million buyout wasn’t enough to finance this guy. Umm. Ok #
• why use a second monitor → 20-30% improvement in productivity? code in one window, debug output in another? All of the above? Yep. all of the above #
• what makes a professional programmer? → obvious, but worth repeating #
• stop the presses! hawt chicks screw up male thought processes → in other news, ze sky: it is a fetching blue colour #
• baby got back → why does this stuff always seem to originate in the UK? #
• nekkid German bum → Does the name Angela Merkel ring a bell? #
• when is a city not a city? → When the population drops below 50,000. Any wittier headlines with a limerick? #
• the state of the blogosphere → wake me up when they figure out the splogs, the blogs about to die through neglect and then remove those numbers #
• firefox grows up → mohawk styleee #
• I read teh ValleyWag and I am teh proud → so suck it, San Jose #
• 60% of IM users prefer MSN → Oh dear heavens. Make it stop, please make it stop. #
• Smuggling in escape instructions via prunes → are the writers of Prison Break reading this? I hope so #
• The first 100 days of Guy Kawasaki’s blog → ” There are three kinds of bloggers: human newsbots (is this an oxymoron?), ranters, and essayists. “ #
• Argentina. And steaks. → South America. It’s on my list. And I just got another reason to visit. #
• sex? No thanks. We’re English cricketers → Nice’N'Naughty shirts are unlikely to bowl any maiden over #
• sex in a MRI tube → occasionally something useful comes out of it, but that’s not why we’re doing it #
• you can’t make this stuff up: kiss an unrelated person for more than 5 minutes and go to jail → “excuse me, officer. I was engaged in a passionate liplock with my … sister” expected to be a common excuse #
• geek talk: what not to do → been guilty of this more often than I can count. #
• from the department of duh facts: cohabiting is good for the guy, not so good for the lady → discusses only the dietary effects; and evades other obvious pluses such as SoD #
• OkCupid does politics → which side of the spectrum are you in? #
• new and improved ways of stalking → folks, it is the future and it is here today: distributed stalking is upon us. Also see this entry. By god, I love Valleywag. #
• “A donkey is like a housewife … In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents’ home, you’ll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master” → A Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds dispenses some politically incorrect life advice. #
• rotten fish creates a brouhaha → in a shocking jab at French sensibilities, champagne and cheese were also attacked by the indignant Swedes #
• RSSPECT - yet another automatic RSS feed creator → might use this for the sooper sikrit project instead of FeedCreator #

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