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  1. ... "Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Device". Sounds kind of creepy.
  2. Adding orgs to the Nat. Data Catalog and found "Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise" misspelled as ... (continued)
  3. ugly URL #2831: senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm
  4. Look at how this URL is constructed: http://bit.ly/vAYpX
  5. Lots of comments coming in on how Adobe is bad for Open Gov't Data: http://bit.ly/4w2deU . (via @cjoh)
  6. Hoping that MongoMapper accepts my patch to fix == : http://bit.ly/2QJptl
  7. RNC launches Code for America: http://bit.ly/wb1cv - Umm: http://codeforamerica.org (via @LuigiMontanez)
  8. nokogiri is rubying too hard: def at path, ns = document.root ? document.root.namespaces : {} search(path, ns).first end
  9. @mdirolf thanks for the linkage to rest-sinatra on the #mongodb http://bit.ly/5gSjU
  10. Just pushed rest-sinatra - makes it easy to write RESTful actions with Sinatra and MongoMapper: http://github.com/djsun/rest-sinatra
  11. @solarfeeds FYI, I work for the Sunlight Foundation, which is about government transparency, not solar energy.
  12. Chairman McCaskill seeks suggestions re: new federal gov't contracting database: http://mccaskill.senate.gov/issues/soco/suggestions.cfm/
  13. Today's random Ruby find: WeakRef - adds support for weak references. I've not used it myself.
  14. RT @LuigiMontanez:We need to drastically increase the number of Ruby civic hackers: http://sunlightlabs.com/people/
  15. RT @avelino:The new @sunlightlabs site (by @jamesturk and @felskia) is now live, for you developer/design types: http://sunlightlabs.com
  16. Jump on the bandwagon and ditch all your relational databases as soon as possible, no matter what. Don't think. Ra Ra Ra. (end sarcasm)
  17. Seriously? Hold down 6 and 4 to boot Snow Leopard's kernel in 64-mode? http://www.maclife.com/print/4789
  18. @LuigiMontanez Good luck on your presentation at the #rubyhoedown
  19. The Sunlight Foundation will be at @socialmatchbox tonight, encouraging the startup community to take advantage of gov't data.
  20. Sunlight is going to attend Social Matchbox on this Thursday. Hopefully we can meet innovators interested in working with government data.