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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Sleep
Who can argue with an extra hour?
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Christopher King and colleagues from the University of Chicago has found a relationship between sleep quantity (hours spent asleep) and calcium build up — or calcification — in the arteries that supply the heart muscle [...]
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That Which We Let Meltdown
Red Hat shakes off economic meltdown:
In the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ended November 30, which had the global economic meltdown smack dab in the middle of it, Red Hat reported software subscription sales of $135.5m, up 17 per cent, with training and services sales of $29.9m, up 52.1 per cent.
Open Source is *in* and [...]
Posted in News
The Difference
Some interesting questions have been raised in response to news of the news industry.
* Slashdot asks: Are Newspapers Doomed?
* The New Yorker details the many mistakes of the newspaper industry.
The New Yorker asserts that the consumer changed while the newspapers did not. I agree with this in certain respects. Consumers have embraced technology and [...]
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What App Store Effect?