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“I’m not sure… that ‘Home Page’… is the modern word for that” - Brian Del Vecchio at dinner last night

Dan Nova from Highland Capital Partners talks briefly about StyleFeeder in this podcasted interview with Business Week.

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Chumby Devices Handed Out at Foo

Generativity, indeed.

When applications crash on OS X, you get a little dialog box asking you if you would like to send the crash details to Apple. Presumably, they actually use this data to continuously improve their products by providing ~realtime bug reports to their dev teams.

What would be really useful, though, is if Apple would respond to me via email telling me if there’s something that I can do to prevent these crashes from occurring, such as applying an update, changing some setting somewhere, etc.

As you can imagine, this would be pretty useful. But since this interaction resembles something like to an actual conversation, I am not optimistic that it will happen soon.

Daily Kos: What a Difference a Day Makes
Either someone was very, very busy overnight in levee restructuring or we’re once again being subjected to gut-feeling, faith-based happy talk.

Radio FIP is now streaming stereo MP3 streams instead of their flakey Ogg stream.

Will we have closures in Java 1.7? - O’Reilly ONJava Blog

I really hope that we do have closures in Java 1.7… there are some constructs for parallel programming that I’ve been noodling around with that would require closures in the language.

American Apparel - Press Center - Electronic Press

Interview with the founder of American Apparel.

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