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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/09/world/europe/20091109-berlinwallthennow.html"&gt;The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - A Division Through Time&lt;/a&gt; Capitalism 1, Communism 0&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.formpasch.com/formpasch_design/PUYL.html"&gt;PUYL air pump and bike light&lt;/a&gt; I love design that serves two useful purposes and incorporates Faraday&amp;#39;s law of induction.&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;Bread after&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Interface consistency is one of those things that, if done correctly, should go unnoticed. I&amp;#39;ve slowly been working on a new interface for a side project and thought it&amp;#39;d be a treat to share my approach.&lt;/p&gt;












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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/what-the-dog-saw-gladwell-review"&gt;What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;quot;Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. Not the kind you&amp;#39;ll find in this book, anyway. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/itay_talgam_lead_like_the_great_conductors.html"&gt;Lead like the great conductors&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;quot;If you love something, give it away.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;Chili!&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Cooks lid off for another 20&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Simmer for an hour&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Start the mirepoix&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Chop the veggies&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;Brown the meat&lt;/p&gt;






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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php"&gt;Building Web Reputation Systems&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1931100,00.html"&gt;Author Malcolm Gladwell on New Book &amp;#39;What the Dog Saw&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt; If you had a single piece of advice to offer young journalists, what would it be? 

&amp;gt;The issue is not writing. It&amp;#39;s what you write about. One of my favorite columnists is Jonathan Weil, who writes for Bloomberg. He broke the Enron story, and he broke it because he&amp;#39;s one of the very few mainstream journalists in America who really knows how to read a balance sheet. That means Jonathan Weil will always have a job, and will always be read, and will always have something interesting to say. He&amp;#39;s unique. Most accountants don&amp;#39;t write articles, and most journalists don&amp;#39;t know anything about accounting. Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master&amp;#39;s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that&amp;#39;s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativesear.ch/"&gt;Creative Search&lt;/a&gt; I kinda like the columned out content types for creative/exploration activities. Doesn&amp;#39;t really compete with the easily scannable Google SERP for everyday use.&lt;/p&gt;




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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/traviscline/mutter/"&gt;Mutter&lt;/a&gt; Runs arbitratry commands upon detection of file modifications. It&amp;#39;s nice to see Travis gracing us with some code :)&lt;/p&gt;




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