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Big News from Rome

Something cool for all you history nerds out there…
Rome has revealed what its leading archeologist says is “one of the greatest discoveries ever made”, a lost shrine dedicated to the ancient city’s mythical founders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/…

This issue really got on my nerves this week-
Feedburner’s FeedFlare is a service that goes at the end of each blog post and it makes it very easier to readers to do some simple things with the link, like email it, digg it, and so on. One of the more popular features here was [...]

Pogue Sets Things Straight

http://www.nytimes.com/…
In last week’s Times column*, I wrote about a breakthrough new cellphone from Cubic Telecom that’s designed for people who call internationally, either from the U.S. or while traveling abroad.

This review got an awful lot of people excited.
There’s only one problem: those were the wrong rates. The Cubic phone still saves you money, but not [...]

http://www.bugblogger.com/2007/08/getting-beta-al.html
If you have the time and some pretty serious skills this could be a great chance. I’m definitely going to look into it…

Some things I am very interested in right now and proof that other people care about them too…

Amazon EC2 and S3
- related article discussing using EC2/S3 for “real applications”
Hosting 2.0- rethinking web hosting
- related article goes over some of the real problems with Media Temple’s Grid (it’s worth noting that while the Grid did go [...]

http://twitter.com/TwitterLit
TwitterLit is not your typical Twitter feed. Rather than telling the readers where you are having lunch or how your Macbook is doing, every post quotes the first sentence of a novel.
It’s a pretty cool idea actually, though I have not really been impressed with the reading selection.
Oh, and finally someone is making some money [...]

Al Gore’s Office Rocks

This photo of Al Gore in his office is making the rounds this weekend and I just stumbled on it. It was originally posted in an otherwise unexciting photo gallery at Time.com.
Wow, he looks like he’s been pretty busy. I can empathize with the clutter, but what really caught my eye was the triple monitor [...]

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