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kebernet: @dalmaer That is almost as surprising as Ken Mehlman coming out. :P

CharlieCollins: RT @crazybob: I didn't submit a talk this year, but count me out of JavaOne, too, in solidarity with @google and @wpugh.

CharlieCollins: @eneveu I have @dhanji's book, yeah, it's great. I'll check out the links this weekend whilst preparing. Thanks!

CharlieCollins: @kebernet Woot! Congrats uncle Rob!

You do wash your hands when you're done, don't you?

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kebernet: @CastorTroy666 Fresh hot liver! Clean American liver WTT!

kebernet: @bonniegrrl But it really isn't. It is a battle of an 8bit flaming sword vs a WoW flaming sword.

kebernet: And yes, from now on we refer to him as "Connor Wylie of the clan Wylie."

kebernet: @ToddCostella Responsibility! Ha! I get to be a bad influence!

kebernet: Im an uncle! http://flic.kr/p/8vJ3xS

CharlieCollins: Ha! Check out the NoSQL one http://bit.ly/cqOpHH

CharlieCollins: @michaelg Same for me, I was asked about speaking at http://andevcon.com/, would be cool, but I'm not in that hood like you ;).

CharlieCollins: Anybody that has any Guava/Guice/GIN tips or links or insight, please pass along. I'm doing a talk about these libraries on Tues.

When blueberries first show up at the market, it feels like sacrilege to bake with them — ditto with raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. Mother Nature made them perfect! Why drown them in batter, wilt them with heat and then leave them out to dry? What brutes we’d be! But there’s a day in August — I think it might have been yesterday* — when something shifts. The high for the day is in the 60s, you run out to the market and what is this? Did you wish you’d brought your cardigan? How strange! And all of a sudden the prospect of a berry baked into something warm and cozy, that you might eat with your first hot coffee of the season, seems very right.

And it is around this time every year that I try to find the best blueberry muffin. I’ve made them with buttermilk and yogurt and cream cheese too, with streusel and dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon-sugar; I’ve tucked them into corn muffins and bran muffins too, back to one I got from Cook’s Illustrated eons ago (introduced to me by the lovely Elise), but that’s different from the recipes in the two Cook’s Illustrated cookbooks that I own and also at least three of the five other blueberry muffin recipes on their site (the last two are hidden behind a pay wall put between people already pay and people paying more than people who are paying, not that I’m venting or anything, ahem). It has a high dome and a thick batter that’s really more of a dough (a classically brilliant technique of CI’s to keep berries from sinking) and every time, they’re as pretty as a picture.

... Read the rest of perfect blueberry muffins on smittenkitchen.com

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CharlieCollins: http://michaelianblack.tumblr.com/post/996254263/last-night-i-kind-of-lost-my-shit

CharlieCollins: RT @michaelg: New layout editor in ADT looks promising. #android

You may not of known this, but Gigabyte, manufacturer of essentially anything you put inside a computer, also makes handsets. What you also don’t know is that Gigabyte lost anywhere from $9.3 to $12.5 million from its handset business in 2009.  You don’t need a Masters in finance to know that’s not good.

In an effort to turn things around (and realizing the potential) Gigabyte will be changing gears, shifting away from own-brand GSmart (Windows Mobile powered) sales to ODM, with Android as an additional operating system.

Of course, the possibility of a Gigabyte-manufactured phone making it to the US is pretty slim, it’d be interesting to see what they can develop and hopefully bring to the US.

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Gigabyte ditches Windows Mobile, switches to Android

Is America losing its edge? This was the rather depressing subject of this year’s Aspen Forum, the annual event put on by the DC-based Technology Policy Institute. Attracting speakers as illustrious as former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Verizon EVP of Public Policy Tom Tauke, Intuit CEO Brad Smith, the author the National Broadband Plan Blair Levin and Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman, the event focused on the public policy side of technology, addressing the political challenges of making American technology companies more competitive in the 21st century global economy.

It’s perhaps appropriate that the event was held at Aspen’s St Regis hotel up in the breathlessly high altitude of the Rockies. For all the broad public policy challenges facing the technology industry, the persistent issue in many of the discussions here – what Verizon’s Tom Tauke described as the “elephant in the room” – is the unresolved Network Neutrality issue. As Tom Sugrue of TMobile remarked, the network neutrality issue is “sucking the energy out of all the other issues. Sugrue is correct. This issue – defined by the often byzantine and seemingly endless public debate between the carriers, the FCC, Congress, technology companies and the pro network neutrality lobby – is threatening to derail the longer term challenges to American edge in the global technology marketplace.

At Aspen, I interviewed a number of leading policy makers, entrepreneurs and senior figures in the telecom industry to discuss technology policy, American competitiveness, broadband policy, and, of course, network neutrality. Most of these conversations were frank and, at times, depressing. If America is indeed losing its edge, it’s clear that policy makers aren’t exactly sure how to reestablish this competitiveness in a 21st century global economic environment entirely foreign to that of the 20th century.

Blair Levin, the author of the National Broadband Plan, on the future of broadband in the US.

Scott Wallsten, Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, on why we can get Network Neutrality sorted out.

Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock, on how Silicon Valley can help DC resolve the Network Neutrality wars.

Tom Tauke, EVP of Public Policy at Verizon on the background of the Google-Verizon agreement. This video was recorded in a location with a loud background noise. We apologize for the poor audio quality, but believe the content is worth watching.

Blair Levin, Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute, on how Woody Allen has the best explanation for the Network Neutrality impasse

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The good news: Tired of overcrowded cities? A pristine and uninhabited tropical island is still available.

The bad news: It’s filled with snakes.

Atlas Obscura has more on the intriguing Snake Island of Brazil:

Off the shore of Brazil, almost due south of the heart of São Paulo, is a Ilha de Queimada Grande. The island is untouched by human developers, and for very good reason. Researchers estimate that on the island live between one and five snakes per square meter. The snakes live on the many migratory birds (enough to keep the snake density remarkably high) that use the island as a resting point.

That figure might not be so terrible if the snakes were, say, 2 inches long and nonvenomous. The snakes on Queimada Grande, however, are a unique species of pit viper, the golden lancehead. The lancehead genus of snakes is responsible for 90% of Brazilian snakebite-related fatalities. The golden lanceheads that occupy Snake Island grow to well over half a meter long, and they possess a powerful fast-acting poison that melts the flesh around their bites. Golden lanceheads are so dangerous that, with the exception of some scientific outfits, the Brazilian Navy has expressly forbidden anyone from landing on the island.

http://atlasobscura.com/place/snake-island-ilha-de-queimada-grande

jnaujok writes "The Ninth Circuit court has declared that attaching a GPS tracker to your car, as it sits in your driveway, or by extension on a public street, and then using it to monitor every one of your movements, is totally legal, and can be performed by the police without needing a warrant. So, if you live in the Western United States, big brother has arrived."

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