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Archives for December 2005
links for 2005-12-22
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A nice tutorial on using DocBook to produce cross-media documentation.
links for 2005-12-16
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How to make cool stuff.
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A cheaper online alternative to the Container Store.
It’s Really a Cool Zone
What does Sperling’s Best Places to Live have to say about my city?
Reston is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place located in western Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 56,407.
A strain of Ebola called Ebola Reston was named after the community, after monkeys imported from the Philippines that were in the community were found to have the virus.
In case you’re not familiar with Reston, I would have you know that we do not, in fact, have free-roaming monkeys swinging from the trees in our backyards.
They were lab animals.
Sheesh. One lousy Ebola outbreak and your city will never live it down.
links for 2005-12-12
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Ugly but potentially life-saving.
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Need to dress like Robert E. Lee? This is your place. Amazing they can make this stuff at this price-point.
But Can I Get a Clam for a Neopet?
Wired offers some possible insight into why Neopets is so damn creepy:
Dohring brought two things to the company: expertise in market research and a deep commitment to the principles of Scientology. After college, he spent four years in Toledo working for the church in “counseling and communications.” In the writings of Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard, Dohring discovered a business model that would later become the foundation of the Neopets operation. “He created a management technology that’s very powerful,” Dohring says. Hubbard’s companies follow a system of departmental organization called the Org Board, which he claimed was a refinement of one used by “an old Galactic civilization” that lasted 80 trillion years.
I bet that kind of management structure really helps with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
links for 2005-12-07
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This is too cool. I might need one, in an ironic hipster way.
links for 2005-12-06
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A whole art exhibit dedicated to artistic depictions of the banjo. Plunk!
links for 2005-12-05
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One really good online deal every day.
