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Small is the new big. Big used to matter. Big meant economies of scale. (You never hear about “economies of tiny” do you?) People, usually guys, often ex-Marines, wanted to be CEO of a big company. The Fortune 500 is where people went to make… a fortune. There was a good reason for this. Value… Continue reading Small is the new big

Macintosh to Intel?. John Gruber of the Daring Fireball has, as usual, the best analysis of the latest super-heated Apple-to-Intel rumors. He wrote about this about a week ago when the rumor was more rumorish than it is currently. It might be at bona-fide leak stage now.This O'Reilly Radar post on the topic has some… Continue reading Macintosh to Intel?

A 30,15, or 5 minute read (you choose!). What a neat little inventory over here. What can you add to the list?   [Jason Womack]

Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security. Recently there have been a bunch of news articles about how lousy counterterrorism security is in the United States, how billions of dollars have been wasted on security since 9/11, and how much of what was purchased doesn't work as advertised. . . . There are a lot of morals… Continue reading Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security

Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'. A few months back Mike Harris wrote us up a great article on Remind, a very cool and flexible little UNIX app for tracking date-based events. If you enjoy Remind and are using Tiger (OS X 10.4), checkout Nick Vargish’s Remind Widget. Gives you all the power of Remind in… Continue reading Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'

Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion. Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework, and it supports ASP, ColdFusion, Io, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby backends. Steve Smith of Ordered List has posted an update to the ColdFusion code to support POST variables (in addition to the already support… Continue reading Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion

Adam Bosworth Reconsiders Ajax. Adam Bosworth responds to his son's post on Ajax Mistakes. Adam was one of the key people behind Internet Explorer. My son (Alex Bosworth) posted a popular post a week ago on the pitfalls of Ajax applications but he left out some of the features still missing from Ajax applications: First,… Continue reading Adam Bosworth Reconsiders Ajax

Confessions of a Pixel Perfectionist. Icon master Josh Williams reveals the software tools used at Firewheel Design. Welcome back, Yellowlane. Visit site [SimpleBits]

Adviser says governor faked stance on abortion. Governor Mitt Romney's top political strategist has told a prominent conservative magazine that his client has been ''faking” his support of abortion rights in Massachusetts. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Euro facing meltdown as Italy considers backing out. EUROPE'S political crisis spread to the euro yesterday after Italy publicly discussed abandoning the single currency and reverting to the lira. [The Scotsman]