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Monthly Archive for: ‘January, 2009’

from the “no, really?” files: Study reveals ‘shocking’ kebabs

From BBC News: Doner kebabs sold in the UK contain “shocking” levels of salt, fat and calories, a survey has concluded. … The average doner they tested contained almost 1,000 calories – half a woman’s recommended daily intake. Geoffrey Theobald, of Lacors, said: “The level of saturated fat and salt in some is a serious cause for concern.” He added …

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dead tree newspapers – what we’ll miss when they are gone

Seth Godin asked the question: Years and years after some pundits began predicting the end of newspapers, the newspapers themselves are finally realizing that it’s over. Huge debt, high costs, declining subscription rates, plummeting ad base–will the last one out please turn off the lights. On their way out, though, we’re hearing a lot of, “you’ll miss us when we’re …

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dont forget….

Street art project in Berlin – on Flickr. Just a reminder that 99.9% of what you see in advertising, is seriously photoshoped. Hat tip to Jim@ParkbenchProject.

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a fist full of dollars – the story of a kiva loan

Leonie and I have been lending thru Kiva for a number of a years now, and one of their “kiva fellows” (volenteers) has released a video showing what happens from the person lending the money (in this case, his co-workers at Credit Suisse in Canary Wharf, just up the road from us), right thru to the person receiving and paying …

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the end of wall street

End of Wall Street – three part short documentary about what happened, and where to go from here, from the WSJ. Well worth the 30 mins to watch. Hat tip to Dave5 for the link.

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iphone development 101

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I’ve spent the afternoon going over some of the tutorials in the iPhone SDK Development beta-book. So far, so good. I can now see what all the fuss is about – compared to Win32, Cocoa is way richer and way nicer to develop in. Compared to the .NET framework, it’s a close run thing, tho I think the overall design …

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