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	<description>It would be a good idea.</description>
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		<title>Read this book: Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne</title>
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Read this book. All of you. It&#8217;s the most accessible and enlightening expression of a personal philosophy I&#8217;ve ever read, and good words to live by. The more people who read this book, the nicer place we&#8217;ll all live in. A wonder on two wheels. I like D Byrne even more now.
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		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2010/01/08/read-this-book-bicycle-diaries-by-david-byrne/</link>
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		<title>Defining a good education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science has been working with the Federal government for the last six months, which has been an education in itself. I ran across the following quote recently which I think is worth sharing. There&#8217;s a lot of talk in DC about a &#8220;high quality education&#8221; but often those comments are ill-informed as to what a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/12/07/defining-a-good-education/</link>
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		<title>Speakeasy to Close Unless New Owner Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Speakeasy in El Cerrito is now facing the same fate as the now closed Parkway. From Kyle and Catherine:

    "As many of you know, Speakeasy Theaters has been experiencing extreme financial difficulty since opening the Cerrito Theater..."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/05/14/speakeasy-to-close-unless-new-owner-found/</link>
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		<title>Reloading Classes in Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Sometimes you just read a blog post that&#8217;s so good, there&#8217;s no need to clarify it or anything. I just suggest that you read Witold Rugowski&#8217;s post on how to force classes to reload in development in Rails. At the very least you&#8217;ll learn something about how Rails works:
Reloading plug-ins in development mode
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		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/05/08/reloading-classes-in-rails/</link>
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		<title>Fixing Ruby Rake on Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I found a nice article recently which lets you remove the batch files from Ruby when running on Windows, so you don&#8217;t get those annoying, redundant cmd messages &#8220;Terminate Batch Job (y/n)&#8221; whenever you press ctrl-c within Ruby. My version (1.8.6) exits cleanly now &#8211; thanks Ruby Rambler!
http://rubyrambler.blogspot.com/2007/10/terminate-batch-job-yn-y.html
My specific steps for fixing Rake are:

rename &#8220;rake.bat&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/03/25/fixing-ruby-rake-on-windows-disable-terminate-batch-job-yn-message/</link>
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		<title>Continuous Testing and Testing Single Methods in Ruby on Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Testing in Rails is crucial to effective development. Many people have opted for rspec over Test::Unit for this, but I find that Test::Unit meets all my needs. It&#8217;s simple and reliable, which is all I want in a test framework.
I do want two pretty simple features for Rails tests though. I want to manually run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/03/25/continuous-testing-and-testing-single-methods-in-ruby-on-rails/</link>
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		<title>Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Science is simply the process of approximating observed complexity.
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		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/03/06/science/</link>
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		<title>China: The New Sleeping Giant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
These data just in from Netcraft, Chinese site qq.com goes from 3 sites to the third largest webserver provider in a month simply by enabling blogging for its users. Bigger than Goggle&#8217;s blogger, bigger than Microsoft&#8217;s Live Spaces and bigger than MySpace. In a month.



Developer
January 2009
Percent
February 2009
Percent
Change


Apache
96,947,298
52.26%
104,796,820
48.59%
-3.67


Microsoft
61,038,371
32.91%
62,935,449
29.18%
-3.72


qq.com
3
0.00%
20,021,763
9.28%
9.28


Google
9,868,819
5.32%
8,157,546
3.78%
-1.54


nginx
3,462,551
1.87%
3,447,596
1.60%
-0.27



Source: Netcraft Web Survey Survery Feb 2009

This is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2009/02/24/china-the-new-sleeping-giant/</link>
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		<title>Real time Bart schedules for your cell phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Science knocked out a little Bart train application a couple of nights ago for your pleasure. Bart, for those foreigners, is the inter-city train system which services San Francisco and the surrounding areas.
The application provides you with real time arrival data for any station in the Bart system. It returns data in a format suitable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/12/18/real-time-bart-schedules-for-your-cell-phone/</link>
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		<title>MapQuest&#8217;s New API: MQ loses its mind?</title>
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Readers may be familiar with this site&#8217;s GeoX application, which integrates Yahoo, Google, and until the end of January, MapQuest. At that time, MapQuest is switching over to an alternative API system and decommissioning their old api. This seems to be getting a lot of good blog press, but Science is skeptical by nature. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/12/17/mapquests-new-api-mq-loses-its-mind/</link>
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