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Entries for Wednesday, January 16, 2008

January 16, 2008

forre.st | storage

Graph of storage per dollar, based upon hard drive prices scraped hourly from NewEgg. 500Gb drives are the sweet spot currently, at $0.18/GB

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Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

“Please do not use Word Art™” Should make a set of these for code reviews. “Use spaces, not tabs”

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Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress

Hard to watch without remembering his interview scenes in Magnolia. “When you’re a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one who can really help…”

SimpleDbIntro - boto - Google Code

My SimpleDB account got enabled yesterday, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck into it. This looks like a handy Python library for accessing it (and the other Amazon Web Services)

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DCU: PC Deposit – Deposit Checks from Home

Awesome upcoming feature from my credit union: Pay in checks by scanning them on my home PC. Hooray for banking becoming less paper-driven.

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My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)

US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone’s a winner.


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I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.