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Twitter Blog: Replies Are Now Mentions
Thanks. This makes much more sense.
(tags: twitter productmanagement)

Buy High, Sell Low (Talking Points Memo)
Please tell me why we shouldn’t just take Charles E. F. Millard, the ex-Lehman exec who made the decision to take the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s formerly safe funds into the stock market right before the economic meltdown, and hang him high.
(tags: economy bush meltdown omgwtfbbq)

German researchers score Conficker [...]

LEGO Virginia State Capitol – City of Brickmond
Part of a project to build Richmond, VA in LEGO. I like what they did to the state capitol (a Thomas Jefferson building).
(tags: jefferson lego richmond virginia)

New Orleans, On the Rise, Is Getting Its Brews Back – NYTimes.com
Abita in play, Dixie might be back there soon. If beer comes back, can the city be far behind?
(tags: neworleans beer)

ThinkGeek :: Mixtape Memory Stick
C30 – C60 – C90 Go!
(tags: geek usb mixtape)

A New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (The White House)
A coherent, articulated [...]

Social Contract Under Strain (Talking Points Memo)
Astute commentary on why the AIG bonus issue, and corporate compensation at the bailout firms in general, has generated such heat.
(tags: economy bailout aig)

Twitturgy (Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com)
Religious tweeting defined in the new NYT blog about words.
(tags: twitter language)

Subscribing to a friend’s Facebook updates via RSS
Handy little tip [...]

Sagan’s Cosmos for a New Generation of Geeks and Geeklets (Geekdad)
Hulu has Cosmos. I’m going to go back and look for that episode with the Library of Alexandria, which still haunts my dreams.
(tags: science television cosmos sagan)

Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods | threatpost
The BIOS is the battleground.
(tags: security software hardware)

Curt Schilling retires (38 pitches)
Goodnight, Mr. Schilling.
(tags: redsox)

Good Advice (The Tin Man)
On Being a Therapist is a good list of advice, including “you will never be content for very long.”
(tags: blackdog)

The Makers of Things (Rands In Repose)
A meditation on the Brooklyn Bridge and on the meaning of digging oneself out of a hole.
(tags: history economy [...]

Choice Tables – A Debate Over the Best Roman Trattoria – NYTimes.com
Useful, since I can never remember the names of any of the trattorias we tried.
(tags: cucina rome)

Online donors don’t return? (Blue State Digital)
This is the difference between designing for one transaction (i.e. “give now” button) and designing for a relationship (repeated engagement with and clear value proposition to the donor). Translate it into product management and it’s the difference between “feature to close the deal” and “coherent user experience that solves [...]

I ran across a fabulous collection of old postcards from Lancaster County today–a bygone Lancaster County. Not the real Lancaster County that my distant Mennonite ancestors settled, fleeing persecution; nor the modern Lancaster County Route 30, home of strip malls, outlet malls, and the occasional Amish farm, but something in between. Yes, this is the [...]

1950s photos of Boston | Universal Hub
On Flickr, MIT photo studies of Boston prior to urban planning. Very cool.
(tags: boston flickr)

Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden – NYTimes.com
I really, really like where this is going.
(tags: obama cucina)

Chrome Experiments – DOMTRIS
Google’s new line of experimental web apps are probably more properly called Modern Javascript [...]

Mystery on Fifth Avenue (NYTimes)
This is absolutely incredible–a scavenger hunt of hidden panels, drawers, cryptograms, and hidden poems in New York.
(tags: art design family architecture)

At Old South, retuning a prized pipe organ (Boston.com)
Getting ready for performance on the Old South organ, silenced since the crack opened up in the wall last winter. Cool video of [...]

Cuomo Offers Some Details on A.I.G. Bonuses – NYTimes.com
11 AIG executives who received “retention” bonuses of more than $1 million … are no longer at the company. Sounds less like “bonuses” and more like “looting.”
(tags: omgwtfbbq economy bailout meltdown aig)

Dylan 33 (Alex Ross)
Alex Ross gives an early review of Dylan’s latest, due out at the [...]

Opening More Control for Everyone (Facebook)
So this is kind of game changing: you can now make content available outside of your pool of friends on Facebook. Like, to all users. So if you want to read what I’m writing on Facebook, and you don’t want to friend me, I could just make my posts public [...]

IEBlog : Site Compatibility and IE8
Differences between IE7 and IE8, and nuances of compatibility mode. Nice rundown .
(tags: internetexplorer microsoft)