if this isn't bookmarked i will end up googling for another 3hrs.

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Top10SQLPerformanceTips - MySQL Forge Wiki

OMFG i want one. Don't know why they use a donkey forum system to run their website. suppose they're too busy being surrounded by awesome cameras.

--timball

RED ONE

the plum book in downloadable form.

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Plum Book: 2008 Edition

In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper—a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited.

What she witnessed four days later, once the cells had a chance to make themselves at home, was astonishing. "We could see these little areas that were beginning to beat," says Taylor, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Cardiovascular Repair. "By eight days, we could see the whole heart beating. The first time that happened, it was like ‘yes!' "

Miracle cure or ZOMBIES?

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Ghost Heart | Popular Science

In classic congressional fashion, the Senate has decided to use a crisis piece of legislation as a way to push through a massive package of other priorities forcing an inter-chamber factional battle to come to a head. The inclusion of this controversial legislation could also serve as a remedy to the current failure in the House.

Poison pill or appeasing antidote? We’ll wait and see.

read the bill

then tell everyone else to read the bill

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Sunlight Foundation » The Other Provisions in the Senate Bailout Bill

OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?

BARTLET Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

ha!

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Op-Ed Columnist - Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

The BBC is following a shipping container around the world for a year, starting on Monday in Southampton.

Declan Curry explains why such containers are so important in the modern world.

The Beeb is doing a news show about following around a shipping container. it's an ongoing series so be sure to check back for new video content as well as an interactive map of where the container is.

Unfortunately the first shipment of scotch will be headed to asia.

--timball

BBC NEWS | Special Report | The Box

Project Golf 1.8T

I love my GTI. It's just passed 120k miles... it's been perfectly great to me. It's now time to make it go fast.

--timball

VWvortex - The Volkswagen Enthusiast Website

$150 awesome project board. A lot more expensive than avrs + thingies but look at all the miscellaneous features! I sense a HOT JOB coming up!

--timball

BeagleBoard.org - hardware

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That (a) a revised edition of the brochure entitled ``How Our Laws Are Made'', under the direction of the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives in consultation with the Parliamentarian of the Senate, shall be printed as a Senate document, with suitable paper cover in the style selected by the chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing. (b) There shall be printed-- (1)(A) 250,000 copies of the brochure for the use of the House of Representatives, distributed in equal numbers to each Member; (B) 100,000 copies of the brochure for the use of the Senate, distributed in equal numbers to each Member; (C) 2,000 copies of the brochure for the use of the Joint Committee on Printing; and (D) 1,400 copies of the brochure for distribution to the depository libraries; or (2) if the total printing and production costs of copies in paragraph (1) exceed $180,000, such number of copies of the brochure as does not exceed total printing and production costs of $180,000, with distribution to be allocated in the same proportion as in paragraph (1).

Most boring owner's manual ever.

--timball

HOW OUR LAWS ARE MADE -- From the Senate Documents Online via GPO Access