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Survey: "Is Osama bin Laden alive?" Jon Udell reviews Delta's new passenger info system. Ken Bereskin: "Big news on the Sherlock 3 front." AP: "Felipe Alou was hired Wednesday to manage the National League champion San Francisco Giants, returning to the team he played for in the 1950s and '60s." Meg: "Now I know two secret entrances to the Louvre!" On this day four years ago, a little-known second-fiddle dipshit website in NYC went public, starting a boom whose echoes created mega-billionaires and ruined the economy and culture of the Bay Area. Ted Leonsis is back in the saddle at AOL. Deborah Branscum is back in the saddle too. "This cranky broad needs a name, a face, and some meaningful information about the individuals in a company before she exposes her computer to the potential hazards of new software. Pretty words about passion and expression just don't do the trick." Lawrence Lessig reports that NY's Metropolitan Opera is shutting down fan sites, much as the NY Mets were shutting down their fan sites earlier this year. Mark Pilgrim reports that the optimizations that UserLand and other aggregator developers deployed in the last few weeks have saved him substantially on bandwidth. "On a normal day when I updated repeatedly throughout the day, your support for conditional GET reduced my aggregator-related traffic by almost 40%." His stats page tracks the savings. |
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