- Leaving Yahoo - Chad Dickerson: "I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO." (tags: blogpost etsy yahoo)
- AP News - Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web - "How unusual is it for a 71-year-old American to be unplugged?" (tags: internet mccain politics usa)
- Freighter Travel - Internet Guide to Freighter Travel - (tags: cargo freighter passenger ship transport)
- Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem - "1: The lack of a single, "the buck stops here" leader until too late in the game. 2: No separation between the technology organization and the product organization." (tags: failure management startup)
- Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com - Some amazing photos of CERN's Large Hadron Collider and associated equipment... but "I have my crowbar ready for any unforseen consequences" ... (tags: photography cern physics)
- Liminal Existence: Announcing Jabber::Simple - The Twitter Jabber bot back in 2006: "So far we're running just a single instance, and it's doing fine. Scaling will happen later, and there are a number of mechanisms for doing it elegantly." ... and where the hell is it now!!? (tags: jabber twitter bot programming)
- Eatability - La Disfida Sydney - Pizza in Haberfield (tags: pizza restauraunt food sydney)
- There's a large hole in the plane: pilot - smh.com.au - "There is a big hole in the belly of the aircraft near the right wing about three metres in diameter..." (tags: newsarticle travel qantas aeroplane accident)
- A Guide to Cheap Snacks in Manhattan's Chinatown | Serious Eats : New York - MMm, dumplings! (tags: food nyc usa chinese dumplings)
- allconsuming: The seven hour roast lamb - "This lamb is officially called Le Gigot D'Agneau De Montgeoffroy... marinate for 24 hours, turning when you remember... preheat oven to 120C ..." (tags: recipe blogpost lamb roast cooking)
Links for 06 August 2008
06 August 2008