- 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