Here are some recent links I've found interesting:

• Freddie, Fannie Failure Could Be World `Catastrophe,' Yu Says - "China's $376 billion of long-term U.S. agency debt is mostly in Fannie and Freddie assets" lulz! better hope when congress bails fannie/freddie out they don't make the stock worthless!
  
• Dumber is Faster with Large Data Sets (and Disk Seeks) (by Jeremy Zawodny) i found most of these things to be true when i was working on tabulas
• Design Cop-out #2: Breadcrumbs i've had mixed feelings about breadcrumbs, too.
  
• Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : PHP Library for Amazon EC2
• YouTube - Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water i love it when companies respond to internet memes
• YouTube - Japanese Soccer with Binoculars  oldie, but goodie
• Why A Four-Day Work Week Doesn't Work - Forbes.com - "Ressler argues that as long as employees get their work done it doesn't matter how long it takes or where they do it." forget 40/hours a week ... 32 hours a week in-office is good - if you really care about your job, you'll do whatever extra work you need to do anyways
• http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html - awesome! break down whether it's "soda", "pop", or "coke"  pop vs. soda vs. coke (i say coke)
• PHP Sessions - Files vs Database Based | MySQL Performance Blog  pete recently added support for memcached session in deki
• #5196 (Support "minor edits" in Atom) - WordPress Trac - Trac - cognitive burden is bad ... glad to see some defense for it. something to consider if "minor edit" ever pops up again in a deki discussion.
  
• 10 Reasons It Would Rule to Date a Unicorn  hilarious meme
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » Japan’s Futuristic Underground Flood Tunnel. pictures are stunning

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I really enjoy Dexter Freebish: