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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.Firebug Lite 1.2 Released (Opera, Safari, IE supported) (stevesouders.com)
21 points by gaika on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
11. The Big Mac Index (2008 edition) (economist.com)
21 points by nickb on July 26, 2008 | 1 comment
12.The Silicon Valley VC Disease (scobleizer.com)
21 points by parker on July 26, 2008 | 15 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.Home warriors (economist.com)
14 points by terpua on July 26, 2008 | 8 comments
17.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
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.Xobni and LexisNexis integrate with LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
11 points by nickb on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
22.Things that will Not Change in Python 3000 (python.org)
11 points by iamelgringo on July 26, 2008
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.Honesty Is The Best Policy (avc.blogs.com)
8 points by terpua on July 26, 2008 | 3 comments
29.Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation (25hoursaday.com)
8 points by Anon84 on July 26, 2008 | 2 comments
30.Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... (slashdot.org)
8 points by soundsop on July 26, 2008

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