1) Montastic: ..We are proud to release this free website monitoring service to the world..It is built with Ajax and Ruby on Rails..

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2) moo MiniCards: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/09/moo_minicards.html - These little beauties are ideal for sharing details of your flickr photostream, sets, groups and contact details when you’re offline. They’re only little, but its what you do with them that counts.

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3) crazyegg is super o super: it’s all done with Rails. WOW

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4) 500 kV switch opening:

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5) UK Children Cause Earthquake in Giant Jump: Early estimates suggested 75,000 tons of energy had been released during the minute of jumping.

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6) Economist.com : Big is Beautiful again: Suddenly, scale matters in the high-tech world. This story looks at the new vogue for big firms. Bosses of big high-tech companies have every reason to turn to prayer these days. One after another they are announcing dismal results. In spite of the bad news, big is starting to look beautiful again in the computer industry. Witness SAP, a large German software firm. Only a year ago, it was considered a has- been. Now the pendulum is swinging back. On July 19th, it announced second-quarter net profits 24% up on the same quarter last year. Customers, saturated with reports of dot-com deaths, are turning back to established companies such as SAP, as well as to Oracle and IBM. "I call this 'the return of gravity'," says Hasso Plattner, SAP’s chief executive.

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7) map&guide route service: very very useful service !

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8) The Register: DesktopX - killer eye candy or the great Windows desktop liberator?: Jim : I've been a Stardock customer since, oh, 1995? Day 1, anyway. I bought their first product and probably the majority of the products they've ever released. Object Desktop (ControlCenter in particular) totally rocks. It's been on every PC desktop (OS/2 or Windows) I've used (home and work) regularly since I first saw it.

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9) CNN.com - Facial-recognition tech has people pegged - July 17, 2001: Forget ID badges, passwords, and access cards. Pretty soon, to get in and out of your office you might start using something you can't forget or misplace: your face. Once the stuff of science fiction, facial recognition technology has started to appear in real-life buildings and public places. Setups consist of cameras that capture images of people who pose or simply walk by, and software that matches those pictures with those stored in a database. Electronic readers can be affixed to entryways, keyboards, laptops, and mobile phones.

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10) Run On Sentence: Pie Menus are a naturally efficient user interface technique: directional selection of pie slice shaped targets. The cursor starts out in the center of the pie, so all targets are large, nearby, and in different directions. Fitts' Law explains the advantages of pie menus, relating fast selection speed and low error rate to large target size and small distance. Pie menus are easy for novice users, who just follow the directions, and efficient for experienced users, who can quickly "mouse ahead" once they know the way.

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11) w3future.com - article - higher order programming: Higher Order Programming is the ability to use functions as values. So you can pass functions as arguments to other functions and functions can be the return value of other functions. This style of programming is mostly used in functional programming, but it can also be very useful in 'regular' object oriented programming. A good example of this is the Ruby Scripting Language, which combines all the advantages of pure object oriented programming and higher order programming. Sadly, Ruby is not supported by any browser, so it cannot be used for websites. We are lucky however that Javascript is available in every browser, and that Javascript is so flexible that it can be extended to make higher order programming a helpful tool in scripting webpages.

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12) About Fog Creek Software: We have one priority at Fog Creek Software: building the company where the best programmers in the world want to work.

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