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		<title>Illinois homepage usability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s XKCD is absolutely spot on. I&#8217;m happy to say that the Illinois homepage is much improved on this score. My colleagues did a usability study a year ago and learned and addressed the exact information XKCD is teasing about. If you visit the Illinois homepage, notice that everything XKCD put in the right circle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security policy seen as an economic decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of some research papers that Bruce Schneier found.]]></description>
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		<title>How to build a stadium in iPhone Simci</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bug in the iPhone version of Simcity; it&#8217;s simple but very annoying. The problem is that the &#8216;Citizens demand a stadium&#8217; news item is much more frequent than the &#8216;Here&#8217;s a stadium for you to accept&#8217; petition. What&#8217;s the difference you may ask? Well, without finding the &#8216;petition&#8217; version, you can never build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Python fast list comprehension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a one line list comprehension that stops processing the list as soon as it finds a true member, and returns false if all members are false. Keep in mind that you could also use a lamba function to check for a more complex circumstance in the list. mustBlock = next((True for rule in rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing code from an Android device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Graves has done what I&#8217;ve been dreaming of &#8211; he has configured an Android phone as a development environment. James, you are my hero for the week!]]></description>
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		<title>Freeing up space on Windows hard drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WinDirStat is freeware for Windows that creates a visualization of the largest files on your hard drives. It&#8217;s priceless for freeing up that extra gigabyte that you need to install that new game. It found that my World of Warcraft installer files were wasting 8GB of space, even though I had removed World of Warcraft, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook laughs at Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Onion has published a great article about Facebook privacy. I laughed pretty hard when I read it.]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Java on Ubuntu &#8211; Complete Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-ubuntu-linux-install-configure-jdk-jre/]]></description>
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		<title>LifeLock owner&#8217;s identity stolen 13 times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LifeLock is an interesting service, but it actually doesn&#8217;t protect that well. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of articles on the subject, but the one I just linked has the best over-all summary of the trade-offs involved with trying to offer the kind of protection that LifeLock sells.]]></description>
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		<title>Cool People: Geoffrey K. Pullum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a feat of awesome nerd-ness, Geoffrey K. Pullum wrote the Computability Theory Halting Problem described in Dr. Seuss style.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edthedev.com/2010/how-dr-seuss-would-teach-the-halting-problem/</link>
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