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My name is Jimmy Burns. I’m a liar, a fake, and a fraud.

By Brij ⋅ June 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(shooting war, circa august 12, 2011)

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Shooting War
Shooting War is a serialized graphic novel about the future of war, terrorism, and journalism. The year is 2011, and Jimmy Burns, a young anti-corporate blogger has just seen his Williamsburg apartment blown to bits by yet another terrorist attack on [...]

Reading skill and reading motivation influence each other

By Brij ⋅ June 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Source: council for exceptional children
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“Robert Noyce: The Man Behind the Microchip” - Leslie…

By Brij ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Steve Jobs was greatly influenced by Bob Noyce. Reading this book in pieces. Fascinating stuff.

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Sharing recent tweets with blog readers.

By Brij ⋅ June 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MessageDance FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player

Reddit goes open source with CPAL license, probably caused major LOL in Diggnation

By Brij ⋅ June 18, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Reddit is releasing source code of it's news voting engine. Light weight voting utility was already available in the form of Pligg, Written in Python, this can at best be a launch pad for developers to get onto Google App Engine.

Reddit announcement can be interpreted in two ways. One is that they are letting developers look [...]

Why we should all be worried about Google’s growing network effect

By Brij ⋅ June 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Well, I say yes. There's more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at. Now if we don't get into it, somebody else will. Maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. Now, with the money [...]

If there was Oscar for most funny corporate press release!

By Brij ⋅ June 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Debt, Keogh plan and slot machines! Who is screwing around with capitalism?

By Brij ⋅ June 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

David Brooks amplified Barbara Dafoe's excellent analysis on emerging class conflict. It's very refreshing to see someone use 'thrift' so many times in one essay. Read full essay to understand how deep is the financial hole we are in. It's shocking to see half of the country chained to slot machines as lottery class:
The investor [...]

Testing apnews.com story blog to wordpress blog

By Brij ⋅ June 9, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Apnews.com can change citizen journalism as we know it. I am sharing this news article from iPhone using apnews.com.
Update: added pictures using browser client.
User interface optimized for publishing and sharing news stories will win.

Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WWDC. [...]