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1. Denmark 1970: 99% energy from the Middle East. 2000: 0%. 100% energy independent. (nytimes.com)
59 points by ovi256 on Aug 10, 2008 | 67 comments
2. Clever method of near duplicate detection (glinden.blogspot.com)
39 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
3. Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language (ourcivilisation.com)
31 points by astrec on Aug 10, 2008 | 11 comments
4. Time to Vanquish the Mythical Man Month (assembla.com)
27 points by tst on Aug 10, 2008 | 21 comments
5. Frameworks vs. Libraries in PHP (otton.org)
26 points by pauljonas on Aug 10, 2008 | 12 comments
6. Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (freebsd.org)
25 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008 | 14 comments
7. Apple's third founder (wikipedia.org)
22 points by gaika on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
8. Entrepreneurship Advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe (getrichslowly.org)
22 points by iseff on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
9. Why didn't I start a company in my dorm room and pocket millions before I turned 30? (wordyard.com)
20 points by curtis on Aug 10, 2008 | 3 comments
10. Birth, death and shopping: The rise and fall of the shopping mall (economist.com)
18 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
11. Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans (nytimes.com)
16 points by echair on Aug 10, 2008 | 11 comments
12. The Permission Problem: Patents and Anticommons (newyorker.com)
16 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 5 comments
13. AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces (techeblog.com)
16 points by caveman82 on Aug 10, 2008 | 9 comments
14. 7 More Sites to Cut Your Startup Costs (gigaom.com)
16 points by bootload on Aug 10, 2008
15. Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense (nytimes.com)
16 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 17 comments
16. What happened to Dropbox, and why some startups are in private beta forever?
15 points by ardit33 on Aug 10, 2008 | 23 comments
17. They Used to Say Whale Oil Was Indispensable, Too (nytimes.com)
14 points by robg on Aug 10, 2008 | 8 comments
18. Popularity of Programming Languages by August 2008 (hurricanesoftwares.com)
13 points by wave on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
19. Science close to unveiling invisible man (timesonline.co.uk)
13 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
20. RIAA foiled by "innocent infringement" defense (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)
12 points by echair on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
21. The Noncompete Ruling Won’t Change Anything, Anywhere (techcrunch.com)
12 points by drm237 on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
22. Why I Cant Put Tibet in My Hotmail Address (nytimes.com)
12 points by terpua on Aug 10, 2008
23. Is Google a Media Company? (nytimes.com)
12 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 16 comments
24. Zoho Founder Offers 5 Rules for Recruiting Well (gigaom.com)
12 points by jmorin007 on Aug 10, 2008
25. A Conversation with Christos Papadimitriou (ddj.com)
11 points by jonmc12 on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
26. Dutch paving stones clean air pollution (cnet.com)
10 points by prakash on Aug 10, 2008
27. Indiahacker.com -- request for review (indiahacker.com)
9 points by scoobee99 on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments
28. The Emperor's Old Clothes - C.A.R. Hoare's Turing Award Lecture [pdf] (ucsb.edu)
8 points by nickb on Aug 10, 2008 | 1 comment
29. Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience (techcrunch.com)
8 points by makimaki on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments
30. Explosion in Toronto - Twitter is Where the News Happens (trending.us)
8 points by geuis on Aug 10, 2008 | 13 comments

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