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  1. Scientific Denialism (NYT Book Review): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Sanghavi-t.html?ref=books #science
  2. Fly by Wire (NYT Book review): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Haberman-t.html?ref=books
  3. Nicholas Baker on Ken Auletta's Google Book (NYT book review): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Baker-t.html?_r=1&ref=books
  4. The island of rejected iPhone apps (Gizmodo): http://bit.ly/5PaRbq
  5. Microsoft buries Windows Server performance issue under the behest of Intel, according to H (Slashdot): http://bit.ly/8kmC77
  6. Pystar is crazy in every way (Gizmodo) http://bit.ly/6nN6lv
  7. On Tweckling (Chronicle): http://bit.ly/6tQgSU (RT @fferret)
  8. In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite (TechCrunch): http://bit.ly/7s9wBg
  9. The Long tail: 77 % of Facebook fan pages have <1K fans (Facebook): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/28/facebook-fan-pages-77-percent/
  10. Airline magazines still profitable (Gawker): http://gawker.com/5413966/read-your-in+flight-magazine-and-save-journalism
  11. Why backchannelling at a funeral is a bad idea: http://bit.ly/8rxUfE (RT @zephoria by @RobCottingham)
  12. Called to cancel my Vonage phone, but they offered 1/2 price for 1 year. At ~$15 a month, I could probably find some use for the service.
  13. OpenSolaris or FreeBSD? (Slashdot): http://bit.ly/7Z5csG
  14. Having skipped Vista entirely, I found the Windows 7 install an unexpected breeze: No driver installs, no routine configs. In 64-bit even!
  15. appreciated that it is still possible to assemble a desktop computer from components using pretty much only a Phillips Screwdriver.
  16. Course evaluation question for a database design course: "This course encouraged me to develop a more global or intercultural perspective."
  17. A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss (Gawker) : http://bit.ly/4B91Mg
  18. Amazon lays out the differences between RDS and SimpleDB http://bit.ly/85ZCMr (RT @David_67)
  19. More Verizon: Mobile data plans require a 2 year contract (& purchase of AirCard/USB modem) while phone data plans can be changed M2M
  20. Hmm, no audio recording software for Android either..