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August 2008
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Wikipedia Indicated Palin Early
Washington Post looks into edits on on Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia page in the hours before John McCain picked her to be the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. The edits showed that she would be picked, as the editors were also working on John McCain’s page.
Nascar News and Some Opinions
There has been a lot of Nascar news breaking this week, and I have lots of thoughts, so I want to hit some of the highlights quickly.
Everyone knew that Joey Logano was going to take over the Joe Gibb’s Racing #20 Toyota that Tony Stewart is leaving at this season’s end. But, it is [...]
How Google Helped Win the US a Gold Medal
After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to several different formats, one of which I was able to launch with Google Earth. I was then able to trace the entire course from the comfort of my home half a world away and find a similar route to train on back in [...]
Six Reasons to Love Football
6 reasons we love football – Macon.com. This awesome article by Joe Kovac describes the 6 reasons to love football (especially college football) – tradition, schedule, theater, characters, passion, and party. Hopefully my classmates out here at KU will read this and understand my excitement over college football a little more.
Homemade Version of Score Board Video
In honor of 9 days til kickoff:
UK Prime Minister’s Site Uses WordPress
Three days ago, the new website of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was unveiled. The WordPress Publisher Blog spread the exciting news that the new site is powered by the open source software WordPress.
I’ve been drafting a post about open source software being used in big ways, in an effort to dispell the [...]
Catch the Shortwave
My favorite new web browsing utility is called Shortwave and was created by Shaun Inman.
The idea and implementation is really simple. You use Smart Keywords to search in Firefox and other browsers that you use, but how do you keep all the searches you do in sync? What if you want to use keyword searches [...]
Georgia Bulldogs Make Cover of SI
Georgia Bulldogs make the cover of Sports Illustrated.
How Not to Implement Pay Cuts
How not to implement pay cuts.
Open Source Usability
How to improve usability in free software. Usability can be a major problem with volunteer and open source projects, and Matt Thomas gives a list of problems and suggested solutions.