Stats, Public Domain, Sewers, and Garbage
by Nat Torkington
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| 3 July 2009
- OECD Factbook -- Flash-built impressive data explorer from OECD. Go to Indicators > Load and, in the words of Ben Goldacre, "prepare for nerdgasm". (via bengoldacre on Twitter)
- James Boyle is on Twitter -- author of the book The Public Domain.
- Sewers and Startups (Pete Warden) -- designing to last, reminds me of Saul Griffith's heirloom design riff. When I joined Apple back in 2003, the central build farm for all projects had both PowerPC and x86 Darwin boxes, and our code had to compile on both. Steve was playing a long game, years before the Intel switch he was obviously planning for it, (though I only caught the significance in retrospect).
- Open Data Makes Garbage Collection Sexier, Easier, and Cheaper -- pragmatic use for open government data. For more on the author of this post, see Hello World for Open Data by Tim Bray.
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Falafulu Fisi [ 5 July 2009 03:56 AM]
Unrelated post Nat but, Let Freedom Reign! Happy July 4th! to the US of A.
All humans should salute the US founding fathers.