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Finding books with the Burro

I learned about BookBurro last month at a GreaseMonkey session at the Great Lakes Software Symposium, and if anything can make the value of GreaseMonkey real, this is it. GreaseMonkey’s idea is fiendishly simple, to let you attach some of your own JavaScript to a web page. There are tons of useful GreaseMonkey scripts out […]

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Trail Fever at campaign time

As the mid-term elections this year were heating up, I came across Michael Lewis‘ book Trail Fever and started reading it. In it he is traveling the presidential campaign circuit of 1996, from the Republican primaries on through, describing campaign processes from the inside (or as close to it as a journalist gets). The effect […]

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Office space at Pixar

Ned Batchelder has a link to a story on a tour of Pixar. As he says, it’s quite amazing. These are not your father’s (or your) cubicles. I get the sense that the people who work there would love what they do no matter where they had to work, but that having surroundings like that […]

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