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TechCrunch Is Now “In A Relationship” With Facebook Connect 
Mark Hendrickson via TechCrunch on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Facebook Connect is beginning to materialize and we’re on the ground floor: TechCrunch readers can now use their Facebook accounts to sign in before leaving comments.
Doing so yields several benefits. Most immediately, y
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Retracing Your Footsteps Leads to Your Next Big Leap
(unknown author) via Twenty Set on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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this was very brave
People keep asking what my next post will be. Ever since I quit Brazen Careerist back in October, I’ve thought about writing an eye-opening, uncensored version of everything I learned while I was there (an option that gets more appealing every day as they drag post-breakup paperwork into December). But here’s w
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Google's austerity campaign [Perks]
Owen Thomas via Valleywag on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The best place to work in America is becoming like every other big corporation. Google, at its heart an overgrown advertising agency, is most famous for its lavish perks. Now those are disappearing. The billions gushing in from Google's search monopoly don
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Cheap Oil
By Tom Kuntz via Ideas on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Philanthropy | Never mind ExxonMobil's image-burnishing ads during the Olympics; when it comes to charity, Big Oil Is a "big cheapskate," a consultant says. "Annual donations by the Big Three oil companies as measured by a percent of pretax net income ... are consistently below half the national average." [
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Connect to Tropophilia
Jarred via Tropophilia on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
As part of the redesign of the blog, we’re going to be testing out Google Friend Connect. Use the gadget over there in the right side bar to become a member of Tropophilia, allowing you to connect with us and other readers.
In the future, we
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You Wouldn’t Get This From Any Other Guy
Jarred via Tropophilia on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Dear Blog,
Hi. I know you’re not happy with me. I know I’ve been ignoring you, putting my job and bike riding and everything else before you. Between moving and the election and work and… no… no you’re right. No more excuses. I’m either in or I’m out. I’m in, Blog. I choose you. I choose us.
To show you how commited I am to you, I went out and worke
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Colbert Calls for iTunes Flashmob to Take Top Album Spot
Lonnie Lazar via Cult of Mac on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
On Monday night’s Colbert Report, the most feared television journalist in America let it be known he was none too happy that his Christmas Special Soundtrack was 15 spots down fr
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Bit.ly Offers In-Gmail URL Shortening Gadget [Featured Gmail Gadget]
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
URL-shortening service Bit.ly now offers a Gmail gadget that helps you make sure the long web site addresses you send out via email don't get wrapped and become unclickable. To install the Bit.ly gadget—which just adds a Bit.ly URL shortener module to Gmail's sidebar—yo
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CNN Is Disgusting
Jim Newell via Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Good question, CNN. It looks like Republican Santa will let that little boy discover the answer firsthand. We do not care to watch the filthy video. [CNN, thank you tipster "Adam G."]
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A timeline of food
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The Food Timeline shows which foods were invented when. Ok, not invented, exactly, but first eaten. A tasting menu:
Pretzels, 5th century AD.
Pork and beans, 1475.
Foie gras, 1st century AD.
Croissants, 1686.
Chop suey, 1896.
Popcorn, 3600 BC.
Swedish meatballs, 1754.
(via s
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GradeFund Offers a Different Way to Pay for College: Good Grades
Adam Ostrow via Mashable! on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Paying for college is expensive. GradeFund, a startup founded by a couple of brothers from Harvard and Princeton, has an interesting new approach to covering at least some of the costs: rewarding students monetarily for making good grades.
GradeFund isn’t
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LINK: Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets)
Matt via Signal vs. Noise on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets)
“If they were very smart, the CEOs would drive unreleased, next-generation cars that get 100 MPG. They’d stop in a half-dozen towns along the way and invite a newspaper editorial board writer to ride shotgun for a dozen miles
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Introducing Google.org Geo Challenge Grants
farzanak via Official Google Africa Blog on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
En FrançaisAt Google.org, we have met and worked with many amazing organizations over the past few years, and we keep hearing how eager people are to use online mapping tools such as Google Earth and Google Maps to tell their stories. There are tons of great mapping ideas out there, and we think
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A national broadband strategy -- now
Google Public Policy Blog via Google Public Policy Blog on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselWhile folks in D.C. have been talking for years about the need for a comprehensive U.S. policy on broadband, there are promising signs that a new coalition announced today may be able to help bring that aspiration closer to fruition.
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Warmthvertising
Frank Pasquale via madisonian.net on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Now here is some marketing change I can believe in:
In a national advertising first, Stove Top Stuffing is warming up Chicagoans this December by heating 10 bus shelters throughout the Windy City’s high-traffic commuter and shopping areas to help busy consumers keep cozy throughout the hustle and bustle of
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Join the Discussion: Former Sen. Daschle responds on health care
(unknown author) via Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Tr on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
More than 3,500 reader comments later, we’re excited to report on the success of our recent community discussion on health care, the first open conversation of its kind on Change.gov.
Members of our Health care Transition team, including former Senator Tom Daschle, were eager to dig in to the comments and find out more about the issues and concerns that drove the community conversation
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● Personal light cones
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
When I was born 35.2 years ago, a light cone started expanding away from Earth out into the rest of the universe (Minkowski space-temporally speaking, of course). Thanks to updates from Matt Webb's fancy RSS tool, I know that my personal light cone is about to envelop
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How Dan Kaminsky Saved the (Online) World
(unknown author) via mental_floss Blog on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
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I'm currently reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon which totally fits this story, kinda like deja vu.
Dan Kaminsky is a supergeek in Seattle. He’s a computer security expert, using the typical superpowers of network packet analysis, free WiFi from Starbucks, and a job at Microsoft. But last January, Kaminsky’s Spidey Sense tingled: he had
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