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1.Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming (cosmosmagazine.com)
87 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008 | 23 comments
2.What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? (wsj.com)
53 points by anthonyrubin on July 26, 2008 | 76 comments
3.Google Walks Away From Digg Deal (techcrunch.com)
44 points by terpua on July 26, 2008 | 37 comments
4.Hey language snobs: don't pinch pennies (pchristensen.com)
43 points by mixmax on July 26, 2008 | 29 comments
5.Apple’s Culture of Secrecy (nytimes.com)
39 points by markbao on July 26, 2008 | 18 comments
6."Most creative people are not working in a university doing research anymore." (noulakaz.net)
35 points by theoneill on July 26, 2008 | 21 comments
7.'Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good,' - Sarah Lacy - NYTimes Review (nytimes.com)
28 points by markbao on July 26, 2008 | 17 comments
8.Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited (jeffcroft.com)
26 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
9.Amazon S3, July 2008, and Bell Systems, January 1990 (jsn13.blogspot.com)
23 points by jsn on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
10.The Silicon Valley VC Disease (scobleizer.com)
21 points by parker on July 26, 2008 | 15 comments
11. The Big Mac Index (2008 edition) (economist.com)
21 points by nickb on July 26, 2008 | 1 comment
12.Firebug Lite 1.2 Released (Opera, Safari, IE supported) (stevesouders.com)
21 points by gaika on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
13.Online, Are You Really Reading? (nytimes.com)
18 points by markbao on July 26, 2008 | 9 comments
14.Secrets of the Little Blue Box (1971) (lospadres.info)
16 points by byrneseyeview on July 26, 2008 | 4 comments
15.Stress, Neurochemistry and why Programming is Hard (slides from OSCON 2008 talk) (the-programmers-stone.com)
16 points by queensnake on July 26, 2008 | 3 comments
16.Ruby/Rails book recommendations by skill level/background (newb to haxor, Java refugee...) (mrneighborly.com)
14 points by henning on July 26, 2008 | 3 comments
17.Home warriors (economist.com)
14 points by terpua on July 26, 2008 | 8 comments
18.Why Won't Google Video Just Die? (wired.com)
14 points by procyon on July 26, 2008 | 13 comments
19.Digg is Dead (forfraksake.com)
13 points by jackelin on July 26, 2008 | 29 comments
20.My startup's secret recipe (eisokant.com)
13 points by eisokant on July 26, 2008 | 10 comments
21.Things that will Not Change in Python 3000 (python.org)
11 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008
22.Xobni and LexisNexis integrate with LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
11 points by nickb on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
23.Internet Fame: The Voyeuristic Ouroboros (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
11 points by gaika on July 26, 2008 | 1 comment
24.Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling (arstechnica.com)
10 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008
25.Python for my Grandpa (voidspace.org.uk)
10 points by parenthesis on July 26, 2008 | 1 comment
26.Matplotlib - plotting with Python (thegreenplace.net)
9 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008
27. The Economic Gist Via Craigslist (gigaom.com)
9 points by markbao on July 26, 2008 | 3 comments
28.Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... (slashdot.org)
8 points by soundsop on July 26, 2008
29.Honesty Is The Best Policy (avc.blogs.com)
8 points by terpua on July 26, 2008 | 3 comments
30.Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation (25hoursaday.com)
8 points by Anon84 on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments

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