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"Even as the storm broke over the acrimonious war of words between Shashi Tharoor and Lalit Modi over the shareholders in the Kochi IPL franchise, an intricate international web of ownership of other IPL teams emerged, spreading from Nigeria to Mauritius to India."

"Copy with Style command copies text selection as RTF so when the code is pasted into Keynote, it looks exactly the same as it looked in TextMate, including font style, size and colors. Code can be then modified in Keynote, while the style is preserved."

"This is a proposed draft of the Don't Be a Dick license for open source projects. The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible scope for reuse and modification of creative work, restricted only by the requirement that one is not a dick about it."

Check out the amazing comment on Tom Armitage's photo. Makes the sometimes throwaway process of putting photos online seem really, really worthwhile.

"Delhi has always become a home to people who arrived from elsewhere, enriched the city, adding flavours and culinary traditions to what we call our own. Our third anniversary issue tracks down some of those communities to see what’s cooking today."

The regional cooking in India is so strong, and Delhi is so huge, you can get great authentic food from all around the country there. I'm not so sure the city is so good at serving up international food, though – I tried the The All-American Diner in the India Habitat Centre, grabbing a quick bite before heading into a Carnatic music recital, and was massively, some might say predictably, underwhelmed.

"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requires the creation of “a website on the Internet to be named Recovery.gov, to foster greater accountability and transparency in the use of funds made available in this Act.” Recovery.gov went live on February 17, 2009, the day President Obama signed the Act into law.

The site's primary mandate is to give taxpayers the user-friendly tools to track Recovery funds
– how and where they are spent. These tools — in the form of charts, graphs, and maps, which the site continues to enhance and refine — offer both telescopic and microscopic views of Recovery projects across the country, from the national overview down to specific zip codes.

The site also provides an online way for reporting any suspected fraud, waste or abuse related to Recovery funding and projects."

"As you may know, highlighting a word or passage on the Times website calls up a question mark that users can click for a definition and other reference material. (Though the feature was recently improved, it remains a mild annoyance for myself and many others who nervously click and highlight text on webpages.) Anyway, it turns out the Times tracks usage of that feature, and yesterday, deputy news editor Philip Corbett, who oversees the Times style manual, offered reporters a fascinating glimpse into the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com in 2009."

Soundcloud + DrownedinSound.com x Tumblr = this audio-only blog

"The herding of a party leader is quite a performance, with way more strategic planning lavished upon it than, say, post-invasion Iraq. Still, you can't deny the walkabouts are invaluable in the opportunities they provide for off-the-cuff staged interaction with heavily screened people."

Over 80 presentations from SXSW (why bother even going? oh yes…the schmooze and the booze and the BBQ, of course)

Great introduction to Processing, using the simplest possible dataset – a series of random numbers requested by Jer form his followers one day on Twitter. He manages to tease out some surprising patterns with a variety of simple visualization techniques.

The number of "infographics" I've seen this week: 3,274

100 Pixar characters, drawn to relative size.

Not really about Rock Stars, more about just keeping good developers happy. A few good ideas here, some more obvious than others. E.g. "Allow ample time for proper development and, if that’s not possible due to arbitrary deadlines, allow developers to circle back after the fact to clean up. Great developers loath writing shitty code; at least give them the opportunity to revisit quickly/poorly written code. They’ve got a reputation to uphold you know!"

"…twitter’s API currently places some artificial constraints on transmission speed. Twitter currently allows API clients to only post up to 150 messages per hour. This practically limits this mechanism to a maximum speed of 0.019kbps. But do not despair! Serious users of twitter may apply for an elevated rate limit of 20,000 requests per hour, which increases throughput to a comparatively blazing 2.51kbps. A bigger problem is that this mechanism might be used for illegal file sharing. And indeed, since it only takes a mere 60,000 or so tweets (or about 17 days) to upload an MP3, it would be pretty hard to resist that temptation. I can only appeal to user’s moral judgment to ensure tweetftp is only used for the right reasons."

Why Whython?

* Less Whitespace, More Enterprise
* It’s not a real language without braces and semi colons
* Whitespace delimited is like so restrictive, man!
* Python sucks for code golf
* Finally, a Python for everyone who can’t decide between tab and space

etc. etc. LOL.

Khoi Vinh on the business and economics of selling Wordpress themes.

"Spotted 50 miles off – lumbering knickerless over the horizon – comes Ms Lindsay Lohan, whom you might recall was BBC3's somewhat leftfield pick to explain the issue of child trafficking in India to its audience."

"Ads, widgets, and analytics are a major cause for slow web sites. P3PC is a project focused on analyzing the performance of 3rd party content. The goal is to find the key wins to evangelize to make 3rd party content faster."