Latest on twitter:

Cookie Monster’s Google song.

No Relation: Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational Databases

Master’s thesis from Ian Thomas Varley at the University of Austin.

Harvard paper: two-sided matching market

Basis for some of Google’s auction techniques is a Harvard paper.

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The Madison Ave Hangover: Goodbye Broadcast

shortbord:

The next step in advertising is starting in Boston with a little company called Shortbord.

markup & style research for new projectbluebook.fm

background pattern & transparency, Trina’s Starlight Lounge

typography & smart phone styles, What’s on Draft

javascript audio player, Muxtape

gist: 220908 - hubcut

graysky:

Gist to migrate gems from Github to Gemcutter.

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update rubygems output message

This is nice. I recently saw something similar I liked with the heroku gem, where it forced me to upgrade to the latest version when I tried to use it, and outputted the gem update command.

[~] sudo update_rubygems
Installing RubyGems 1.3.5
RubyGems 1.3.5 installed

=== 1.3.5 / 2009-07-21

Bug fixes:

* Fix use of prerelease gems.
* Gem.bin_path no longer escapes path with spaces. Bug #25935 and #26458.

Deprecation Notices:

* Bulk index update is no longer supported (the code currently remains, but not
  the tests)
* Gem::manage_gems was removed in 1.3.3.
* Time::today was removed in 1.3.3.

Refactoring: Ruby edition

Just bought it.