Chipping the web – five and nine
September 6th, 2007 4:02:38 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Recursion: Red Hat has a collaboration portal for open source developers named 108. Their explanation for the name tells you to choose your own meaning from the Wikipedia page for the number 108. I choose the one that refers back to Red Hat’s 108 site.
Side effects may include strip poker.
… or perhaps political rhetoric (via Gary Tripp).
Tech news, Yegge-style.
Paul Graham: “It may not matter all that much where you go to college.”
Rogers on APML: “To get my attention, click my monkey.”
The REST of Rails.
Tish presents an entertaining list of 10 reasons why she’s single.
Carolyn Manning went (for maybe a month?) to live on the streets, just to see what it was like.
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VIC-20, now that’s old school. My first home computer was a C64, like most geeks in my generation.
Robert Hruzek used to work for Homeland Security?
Thanks for the link-love, Arjan!
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Amazingly enough, it’s true! I was part of the logistical support team for the training force. We dispensed hotel rooms, city maps, dinner coupons, and other fun stuff. Hey, it paid the bills for about 6 months!
I was going to make some sarcastic comment along the lines of your insinuating question, but then I thought “hey maybe we’d be better off with more people there who have a sense of humor?”
Thanks for the link love, Chip!
My pleasure, Tish!
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