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1.		Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (google.com)
		50 points by nickb on Nov 28, 2007 \| 32 comments
2.		[London/NYC] Songkick looking for a music loving hacker.
		on Nov 28, 2007
3.		Stunt Pilot - our first flash game (rocksolidarcade.com)
		32 points by reitzensteinm on Nov 28, 2007 \| 44 comments
4.		The Wufoo Form Gallery (wufoo.com)
		28 points by brett on Nov 28, 2007 \| 12 comments
		pg on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal It is amazing to me that on the day Google announces they're going into the power business, the top story is an xkcd cartoon. Electric power is really fundamental. Change how it's generated, and you change a lot. And Google could make a real difference. They have brains and money and a willingness to do new things. And (equally important) they can be their own beta user. I grew up in this world; my father designed nuclear reactors. Hidebound doesn't begin to describe the power business. It's not (just) a conspiracy by a few big, classically evil companies. There is a whole culture of inertia. It is very exciting to think of Google doing a cannonball into that particular swimmming pool. This announcement also shows how startlingly ambitious Google's plans are. Could you imagine Microsoft or Oracle, even at the peak of their founders' energy, doing something like this?
6.		Overweight? Standing May Be Solution (abcnews.go.com)
		24 points by gibsonf1 on Nov 28, 2007 \| 19 comments
7.		Google releases 'My Location' for cellphones (w/ google maps) (venturebeat.com)
		23 points by johnrob on Nov 28, 2007 \| 15 comments
		kf on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: xkcd - Network xkcd continues to impress me with its immense cleverness. I saw Randall Monroe speak at CMU a couple weeks ago. First, I was surprised that he was 23. I assumed he was older. I also assumed that the deep romanticism of some of xkcd's comics meant that he was in a serious relationship of some kind -- he isn't, and implied that he always has trouble with girls.
9.		Cybersquatter email
		18 points by andres on Nov 28, 2007 \| 41 comments
10.		Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered (thinkvitamin.com)
		17 points by luccastera on Nov 28, 2007 \| 9 comments
		kf on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal It was a pretty good xkcd cartoon, you've gotta admit.
12.		YouTube for Computer Science researchers (videolectures.net)
		16 points by gourneau on Nov 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
13.		Any suggestions on good places to find freelance developers?
		15 points by nickadams on Nov 28, 2007 \| 28 comments
14.		Scribd is Seeking a System Administrator
		15 points by trip on Nov 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
15.		What the Google Intranet Looks Like (blogoscoped.com)
		13 points by marklubi on Nov 28, 2007
		chaostheory on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: eToro Makes Forex Trade Child's Play I don't think it's stupid (maybe it is if you only thought of it as a finance trading tool) - but like TechCrunch pointed out it's pretty much online gambling in disguise, but legal even in the US (at least that's my guess)
17.		Reminder: Leah Culver talking at Justin.TV tomorrow (justin.tv)
		13 points by abstractbill on Nov 28, 2007 \| 11 comments
		edw519 on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Cybersquatter email They provide no value to anyone and hold intellectual property hostage for nothing other than their own personal gain. What you call "enterprising" I call "pigs feeding at the trough". Maybe they should find a way to provide value to someone else instead of domain squatting. Now, THERE'S your waste of energy.
		eusman on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: www.hackerne.ws -- My New Year's gift to YC Hacker... if you did a simple "dig www.hackerne.ws CNAME" you would see there is a record for news.ycombinator.com thus I don't steal anything. there is no even server hosting the domain. nslookup could give you a hint
20.		Disney To Make Up To 20 Startup Acquisitions In Next 24 Months (techcrunch.com)
		11 points by transburgh on Nov 28, 2007 \| 2 comments
21.		Holy Shmoly, GHC Haskell 6.8 smokes Python and Ruby away! And you can parallelise it for free (unsw.edu.au)
		10 points by nickb on Nov 28, 2007 \| 8 comments
		koolmoe on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: xkcd - Network "I also assumed that the deep romanticism of some of xkcd's comics meant that he was in a serious relationship of some kind" Funny, I assumed the opposite. A lot of his comics about relationships resonate with the self image I had before I married.
		corentin on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Cybersquatter email Well, they provide protection against other domain squatters! :) "It's a nice domain name you have there; it would be bad if something happened to it..."
24.		Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "What America does best is..." (wired.com)
		10 points by byrneseyeview on Nov 28, 2007 \| 6 comments
25.		There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere (readwriteweb.com)
		10 points by shayan on Nov 28, 2007 \| 7 comments
26.		Is CondeNet's Web Approach Paying Off? (wsj.com)
		9 points by bootload on Nov 28, 2007
		mwerty on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Stunt Pilot - our first flash game How is the time bonus calculated? I keep getting whole number multiples. Edit: Wanted to add that I like it. Good job. It could be more addictive though: eg: I never ever want to restart from level 1.
28.		Google Maps now has Terrain view (maps.google.com)
		9 points by nickb on Nov 28, 2007 \| 7 comments
		edw519 on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Cybersquatter email all your base belong to octopart.cn
		andres on Nov 28, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Cybersquatter email octopart.cn and octopart.com.cn were registered on 3/10/07. we launched on 3/05/07.
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