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ASP.NET Mvc Source Available

By jonezy | Published: March 21, 2008

Just posted on Scott Guthries blog this morning, you can now download the source code for Microsoft’s ASP.NET Mvc extensions. Grab it at Codeplex

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RIP – Arthur C. Clarke

By jonezy | Published: March 18, 2008

This guy is definitely the reason I love Science Fiction. 2001: A Space Odyssey is in my top 5 movies of all time. Article in the LA Times

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smell this

By jonezy | Published: September 13, 2006

News Sniffer is a site dedicated to monitoring corporate news organisations to uncover bias. I guess a lot of people don’t realize how filtered, biased and untrue a lot of the news we read and see is. Currently the site only monitor’s the bbc but according to the site they will start monitoring more sites soon.

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2006 Young Innovators Under 35

By jonezy | Published: September 8, 2006

Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. read more | digg story

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the paper beast go’s digital

By jonezy | Published: September 2, 2006

this is such a good idea, the toronto star is now offering a downloadable pdf version of an afternoon newspaper called Star P.M. It’s not as though the main paper is going to this format, i think that’s still years away but this is a really good step in the right direction if you ask me. [...]

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magic pills will make you a winner

By jonezy | Published: July 27, 2006

It seems that Lloyd Landis (who just won the tour de france) has tested positive for higher than normal levels of testosterone… a disturbing trend (if true) of shortcutting your way to the winners circle in a lot of today’s major sports. Imagine what the kids watching this stuff are thinking?

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what do you do when you don’t want any vc funding?

By jonezy | Published: July 21, 2006

you get vc funding anyways? 37signals have long touted there ability to keep it real with out the overbearing weight of venture capital investment and all the trappings that come with it. But they have just accepting a minority investment (personal investment) from Jeff Bezos reading through the comments makes me wonder sometimes why people care [...]

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vanilla 1 is officially out!

By jonezy | Published: July 11, 2006

Vanilla 1 is out for real now. I have been playing with it for many months now and really enjoy using it. I don’t have a particular need for it myself but someone else may! You can also keep up with what’s going on in the vanilla and lussumo world be checking out the [...]

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