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RossDM

  1. Wealthy people have more trees. From this we may infer that elves are rich // Urban trees reveal income inequality bit.ly/Le6Qa7
  2. Begun, the map wars have. macrumors.com/2012/06/01/goo…
  3. Maybe in twenty years we’ll think of Google primarily as a vision company bit.ly/JR23Nx
  4. Favorite new phrase of the day: "time bandit." E.g. "that time bandit keeps on emailing me lengthy, convoluted email chains."
  5. How many HTTP requests does it take to load a single button? // Why Facebook’s “Like” button is so slow bit.ly/LcrJnJ
  6. F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference | TechCrunch tcrn.ch/JxPcmM
  7. This video sums up my feelings about the current IE9 TV advertisements // bit.ly/Jof6V5 #youtube
  8. @jmproffitt holy moly! Linda is famous!
  9. @danshipper true...also, FB and all forms of social interaction as well. The 'Like" button really influences folks' posting habits
  10. @danshipper which is why World of Warcraft and its ilk do so well. You can be somebody! Get loot and show it off!
  11. @smashingmag I use alt-R to restart Firefox using this plugin github.com/erikvold/resta… #smshortcut
  12. "It was always our intention to facilitate entrepreneurialism [...] we just didn't expect it to work so well." cnet.co/JGMUMW #aol
  13. Another Anchorage hackathon event. Looking forward to seeing results. June 15-17 // bit.ly/KqfDJD /via @AEDC
  14. Co-worker brought home some Obama matches from China. Yes, they make matches. Quotes not entirely factual. twitter.com/RossDM/status/…
  15. The captions on the pictures are classic // Stolen iPhone Adventures on.fb.me/KKBeOs
  16. .@msuster post about cultivating the right kind of chip on your shoulder bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/05/17/wha… #entrepreneurship #biz
  17. One day we'll just have instruments that consist of a single button to satisfy our instant gratification needs // kickstarter.com/projects/incid…
  18. Redis changelog: "Redis ASCII art logo added at startup. This is where our major efforts went in the latest months." bit.ly/KFXYOC