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Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire:
Marc Ambinder has a copy of a letter DNC Chairman Howard Dean sent to each Democratic presidential candidate today, strongly urging “to do
your part and support the action of the Rules and Bylaws Committee” finding Florida’s advanced primary in non-compliance with delegate selection rules last weekend.

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Via MacNN | The Macintosh News Network:
Toyota on Friday released an iPod Integration Kit that works in all current Toyota and Lexus models. The kit, first announced in early May, is installed in the vehicle’s glove box: it connects Apple’s iPod directly to the car’s audio system and can recharge the iPod’s battery, according to [...]

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First Rove. Then Gonzales, Now Tony Snow resigned. Any bets on when Cheney will quit?

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Exactly two years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. While I was at the gym today, Magnolia Soul by Ozomatli came up in shuffle on my iPhone. A very appropriate song for today.

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Via MetaFilter: Hilly Kristal has died at age 75. First the club, now the man.

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Toolchain Project - The iPhone Dev Wiki
GCC and other tools for building native iPhone software
(tags: iPhone development)

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I tried to sell my old MacBook Pro on eBay. I got one bid, for my original asking price, but when I sent the invoice, the buyer sent me the following email:

i am sorry,i dont wanna buy your laptop because it is old macbookpro.i supposed to new one.

I think I made it very clear here [...]

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It was bound to happen sooner or later. There’s a virus affecting Twitter now. It shows up as a link in someone’s tweet containing Chinese characters. If you click that link, it will post a tweet containing that same link. At least 4 people I’m following have spread it.

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Competition is definitely a good thing for Mac virtualization software. I had switched to VMware because I found it to be faster than Parallels (at least on my old MacBook Pro). When Parallels released their new beta yesterday I decided to give it another chance and I was pleasantly surprised.
It now feels faster than VMware [...]

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Groupware Bad
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
(tags: software development)

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Via UNEASYsilence:

Scott McCausland was accused of and plead guilty to downloading Star Wars Episode III (Revenge of the Phantom Sith Enterprise Scotty?) and after serving five months in prison (Mind you Cocaine carrying Lohan got only hours) the court ordered that he must have monitoring software installed on his PC and that software is not [...]

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I found this Topknot, M.I.A. and Cornershop remix at Boing Boing and I’m hooked. I don’t know where it came from originally, but I’d love to hear more like that.

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My headline from yesterday was probably misleading. I only “unlocked” my iPhone so I can install third party software and my own ring tones, but here’s the real deal. George Hotz figured out how to really unlock the iPhone so it can use SIM cards other than AT&T’s, such as T-Mobile, using a hardware hack. [...]

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I finally got brave enough to install the Installer App on my iPhone so I can use third party software. The apps I installed so far are Launcher, SendSong, Lights Off, Finder, and Term vt100. I can also now connect to it via ssh.
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Hobbit’s techie-rants
Lots of Prius tech info & hacks
(tags: prius hacking)

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Engadget tells of someone receiving a Dell XPS M1330 laptop without an OS, no system BIOS and several other defects.

The $2k+ laptop looked fine at first glance, but when Pradeep popped it open and hit the power button, it immediately booted to a blank, white, flickering screen. After 10 minutes, nothing had changed, no Dell [...]

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When writing Objective C code, never forget to have your init method return self or bad things will happen, but maybe not in a debug build. I wasted over an hour on that today when my debug build worked perfectly but a release build crashed in awakeFromNib where it was initializing a series of items [...]

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Via B12 Solipsism :
The first time came one Thanksgiving when he decided to drive down to a Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank.‘Highway 5 was empty that night and I made good time and was surprised to discover that the Prius was very stable, even with major gusting winds,’ Wozniak said.

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Via Laptop Security Blog:

Education Week has published an article which indicates that Social Networking can have educational benefits. According to a survey commissioned by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), 50% of teens say they talk to their peers about schoolwork online (IM, blog or social networking sites) or via text message. A larger proportion [...]

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Cocoa Bindings Programming Topics
(tags: cocoa programming reference)

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