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Topic: Technology |
5:21 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2008 |
Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language. Jump in and share your software engineering expertise! No registration or account required.
Always wanted something like this. Quite good. Stack Overflow |
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Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript |
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Topic: Technology |
5:17 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2008 |
Bluff is a JavaScript port of the Gruff graphing library for Ruby. It is designed to support all the features of Gruff with minimal dependencies; the only third-party scripts you need to run it are a copy of JS.Class (about 2kb gzipped) and a copy of Google’s ExCanvas to support canvas in Internet Explorer. Both these scripts are supplied with the Bluff download. Bluff itself is around 8kb gzipped. To draw a graph, you create a new Bluff graph object using the id of a canvas element on the page, set some options, add the data and labels, then tell the graph to draw. A basic example:
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bigPicture: START Atlanta helps to launch new technology businesses - the bigWebApps blog |
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Topic: Business |
3:04 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2008 |
Companies that participate in START Atlanta will have to network online and attend various offline events to interact with each other and investors. The companies will have access to online resources, peer knowledge, and tools to help them succeed. Investors will have the ability to invest in small amounts with collaborative results, and the ability to research and track their investments' milestones. Alan Pinstein, another START Atlanta co-founder added "For any community, you get what you put into it. The goal of this non-profit is to grow and foster the local startup community. We want to show that you can hit home runs in Atlanta if you have an idea, a team, funding and a supportive community." START Atlanta will begin with a kickoff event the weekend of September 19th to gauge the needs from both entrepreneurs and investors. START Atlanta is anticipating around 45-50 people at the event made up of entrepreneurs, lawyers, developers, designers, investors, and anyone else interested in the success and growth of the Atlanta Startup Community. Please refer to www.startatlanta.org for information, schedules and registration details.
bigPicture: START Atlanta helps to launch new technology businesses - the bigWebApps blog |
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Georgia Brain Train Group - A Commuter Rail, passenger train, Atlanta rail, college connector rail |
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Topic: Health and Wellness |
2:52 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2008 |
Thanks for visiting the Georgia Brain Train website. This site will be an organizing point on the web to help educate those interested in the exciting developments in commuter rail for the Northeast Metro Atlanta area. We urge you to click the link on our site to read about recent public opinion surveys on passenger rail. Our goal as an organization is to educate the public about the benefits of passenger rail in the northeastern metro suburbs. The proposal to connect Athens through Oconee, Barrow, Gwinnett and DeKalb Counties to Midtown and Downtown Atlanta is gaining momentum and people need to understand the positive impact it will have on our overall region.
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Wines » Bohemian Highway Merlot 2004 |
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Topic: Home and Garden |
6:48 pm EDT, Sep 13, 2008 |
Bohemian Highway Merlot 2004 feature a funky label with pop art palm trees, stars, and waves breaking on a beach. That’s appropriate, because it’s the kind of wine that would seem to go well with a beach party that lasts long into the evening. Its nose has ripe berry, smoke, and spice, and these carry into the flavor as well. Raspberry and cherry notes predominate, with some smoky oak notes in the finish. The tannins are very soft, and the wine borders on sweetness. This is a wine that will be accessible to many - even those who lean toward sweeter beverages shouldn’t crinkle up their noses at this Merlot. With Bohemian Highway Merlot’s combination of accessibility and low price, it is a good choice for parties populated more by wine gulpers rather than wine tasters.
This is my favorite wine. I drink it daily. It is $6 a bottle. Wines » Bohemian Highway Merlot 2004 |
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A Small Orange Web Design - Elegant, Effective Websites |
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Topic: Business |
4:14 pm EDT, Sep 13, 2008 |
Why choose A Small Orange? There are plenty of other web design firms, so why should you go with us? Mastering the art of web design involves worrying about the details. For example, does the website have clear navigation and structure? Does it load quickly for those with slow connections? Does it meet web standards and is it optimized for search engines such as Google? Is it accessible across various browsers, operating systems, and computers? Those questions might seem a bit overwhelming. After all, you have bigger things to worry about than whether or not your site looks good in Safari on Apple machines. Let us take care of the details. We'll use our expertise to build you a website that exhibits both substance and style... and is sure to make your visitors (a.k.a. potential customers) stick around.
Haven't used these guys, but am thinking about it and I do recommend them as they are local to the ATL and their portfolio is diverse and impressive. A Small Orange Web Design - Elegant, Effective Websites |
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Startup Gossip - Your Source for Local Startup Gossip |
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Topic: Technology |
8:40 pm EDT, Sep 12, 2008 |
About Startup Gossip The goal of Startup Gossip is to collect all news, information, and gossip relating to the startups in a city. Right now we just cover Atlanta, but eventually we aim to cover all major cities worldwide where interesting and important startup activity is occuring.
Sanjay (SUN-jay) Parekh, a successful Atlanta entrepreneur started this site, which is kind of an Alpha just yet, but has mucho promise. Startup Gossip - Your Source for Local Startup Gossip |
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CNN's Electoral Map: Who's ahead - CNN.com |
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Topic: Current Events |
7:48 am EDT, Sep 12, 2008 |
Electoral map that shows who is ahead where, by how much as well as total delegates for each candidate based on that info. CNN's Electoral Map: Who's ahead - CNN.com |
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Palin And The Bush Doctrine |
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Topic: Current Events |
2:37 am EDT, Sep 12, 2008 |
For that reason, one of the most striking things about Palin's response, to me, was this: in answering Gibson's question, she seemed to think that she was accepting the Bush Doctrine, but what she actually said just restated the old doctrine of preemption. When, as Palin said, "there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people", the claim that we have the right to preempt that strike does not require the Bush Doctrine; it just requires the old, and much more widely accepted, doctrine of preemption. That is: in what Palin says here, she's not actually supporting the Bush Doctrine at all. She's just saying what generations of American Presidents and candidates have said: that when a country is actually about to attack us, we don't have to wait for them to actually land a blow before we can strike back. The good news, I guess, is that when she's forced to make up an answer out of whole cloth, she goes with preemption, not prevention. She doesn't deny that she accepts the Bush Doctrine; she just doesn't say one way or the other. The bad news is that this makes it pretty clear that the problem isn't just that she doesn't know what the name "Bush Doctrine" refers to. She doesn't seem to know that there was a debate about preventive vs. preemptive war, in which the Bush administration came down decisively on the side of prevention. And that's a pretty important thing to be unaware of.null
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