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E.B. White: &8220;There are roughly three New Yorks.&8221; - May 24, 2008

&8220;There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each ...
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/24/eb-white-there-are-roughly-three-new-yorks/

Ignite Boston 3 - Next week - May 23, 2008

Ohhh, nice looking line up, packed with old friends, old colleagues, and good folks all around. Enough to make you miss Boston.
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/23/ignite-boston-3-next-week/

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU - May 21, 2008

Amazing time lapse photography.
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/21/muto-a-wall-painted-animation-by-blu/

Better Javadoc results using &8220;SearchMonkey&8221; - May 21, 2008

The docs on I found on Yahoo&8217;s SearchMonkey were all arcane XSLT, and strange feed formats ne&8217;er before seen on the Web. But this example from Sam shows how easy it can be - a couple of regexes, and a couple of lines of PHP.
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/21/better-javadoc-results-using-searchmonkey/

Flickr tag: &8220;soshirkyithurts&8221; - May 7, 2008

Best tag ever
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/07/sh-2/

Ninetynine-Ninetynine: &8220;The more details are provided, the less likely people are to doubt the larger context.&8221; - May 3, 2008

Useful (if evil) general communication tool, now science backed.
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/03/ninetynine-ninetynine-the-more-details-are-provided-the...

All salmon fishing banned on West Coast - May 2, 2008

&8220;So few salmon returned last fall that the fishery council was required under its management plan to halt fishing throughout the salmon habitat, which is all along the California and Oregon coasts.&8221;
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/02/all-salmon-fishing-banned-on-west-coast/

Code.Flickr: Videos in the API - May 2, 2008

Finally got around to posting on working with video in the API. (been sitting in the &8220;really should be edited a bit&8221; queue for weeks now)
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/01/codeflickr-videos-in-the-api/

Twitter: Jobs - May 1, 2008

Operations Engineer experience with JVM-based application stacks, Systems Engineer code using primarily Java, Ruby, CC++ and Scala. I blame theraflu
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/05/01/twitter-jobs/

Internet News: Flickr Taking Privacy Just Casually Enough - May 1, 2008

Susan Kuchinskas has a nice write up of my talk on Friday that manages to hit most of my quotable moments (and leaves out the few that really shouldn&8217;t make it to print). Slides coming soon.
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/04/30/internet-news-flickr-taking-privacy-just-casually-enoug...