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</description><title>Grokked</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @grokked)</generator><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Google Maps Navigation released for Android 1.6…but only in the US….so near and yet so...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Google Maps Navigation released for Android 1.6…but only in the US….so near and yet so far…#%!#^&amp;…..&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/255292893</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/255292893</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:47:20 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>What is Pivot?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.getpivot.com/"&gt;What is Pivot?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;No one can tell you what pivot is…you have to watch the video.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/249461095</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/249461095</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:48:32 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Video</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4P785j15Tzk&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4P785j15Tzk&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/249434121</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/249434121</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:34 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Flat, Part 2</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8280"&gt;Getting Flat, Part 2&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Pretty cool article and I didn’t get to read it until today.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/248268119</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/248268119</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:41 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'</title><description>&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8339647.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Send this to all your happy friends.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/248033193</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/248033193</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:00 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>When gmail came out everyone wanted to be invited in, with Google Wave, I suspect the people already...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;When gmail came out everyone wanted to be invited in, with Google Wave, I suspect the people already inside have to do the inviting.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/241378151</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/241378151</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:08:44 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>The Paradox of Choice and the Dangers of Perfection * Get Rich Slowly</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/10/22/the-paradox-of-choice-and-the-dangers-of-perfection/"&gt;The Paradox of Choice and the Dangers of Perfection * Get Rich Slowly&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;How will she die? Shark? Or death by monkey? Choose!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/238864409</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/238864409</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:09:47 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Mon Dieu! Apple Store Coming to the Louvre | Design &amp; Innovation | Fast Company</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/mon-dieu-apple-store-coming-louvre?partner=homepage_newsletter"&gt;Mon Dieu! Apple Store Coming to the Louvre | Design &amp; Innovation | Fast Company&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;The sad looking Microsoft Cafe link on that page is priceless.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/238855486</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/238855486</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:58:48 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>The Secret of Eating Chicken Wings - Neatorama</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/07/the-secret-of-eating-chicken-wings/"&gt;The Secret of Eating Chicken Wings - Neatorama&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Watching this made me really hungry….damn.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/237868035</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/237868035</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:07 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html"&gt;Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/236744947</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/236744947</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:46:40 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lost Decade | Print Article | Newsweek.com</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/220145/output/print"&gt;The Lost Decade | Print Article | Newsweek.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Business people leading tech company == FAIL!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/230574110</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/230574110</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:17:58 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"This viewpoint has a distinct influence from Heinlein, who said both that A society that gets rid of..."</title><description>“This viewpoint has a distinct influence from Heinlein, who said both that A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill (a viewpoint I touched upon in my other blog last week, The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark) and I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3601" target="_blank"&gt;7 Lessons for Software Developers from Heinlein | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/228511770</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/228511770</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:14:49 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Video</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:254168" width="400" height="333" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" flashvars="autoPlay=false&amp;dist=www.ripten.com&amp;orig=" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227793661</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227793661</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:12 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen - life - 29 October 2009 - New Scientist</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18077-fellatio-keeps-male-fruit-bats-keen.html"&gt;Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen - life - 29 October 2009 - New Scientist&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227714511</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227714511</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:39:45 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>iStand (via hargtimothy)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksbdsutFrp1qz4vfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;iStand (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/10551961@N00" target="_blank"&gt;hargtimothy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227705457</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/227705457</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:24:29 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>6-year-old girl’s notes to family live on after her - TODAY: Book news</title><description>&lt;a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33505351/ns/today-today_books/?gt1=43001"&gt;6-year-old girl’s notes to family live on after her - TODAY: Book news&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/226708343</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/226708343</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:07 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"In these situations, past experience may not help, says Christopher. “What is needed most is..."</title><description>“In these situations, past experience may not help, says Christopher. “What is needed most is insane determination to see something through when failure is a more likely result than success.””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427312.700-dream-job-3-lead-programmer-for-a-dotcom-startup.html" target="_blank"&gt;Dream job 3: Lead programmer for a dot-com start-up - 25 October 2009 - New Scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/223704182</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/223704182</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:11 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund - NYTimes.com</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/education/24baby.html?_r=3&amp;hp"&gt;No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund - NYTimes.com&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/223567762</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/223567762</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:05:35 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"The best part of it is the box with “You put in other details”. I would point out that engineers get..."</title><description>“The best part of it is the box with “You put in other details”. I would point out that engineers get these sort of requests all the time. Oh, they’re more professionally written and not so crudely drawn, but just about every engineer has had a run-in with a boss or client who mistook a desire for an idea and then asked the engineer to close the gap between the two.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=5601" target="_blank"&gt;Twenty Sided  » Blog Archive   » You Put in Other Details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/219758576</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/219758576</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:07:40 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>RT @lucianop: “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;RT @&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/lucianop" target="_blank"&gt;lucianop&lt;/a&gt;: “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” ~Jean Cocteau #quote&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/218185364</link><guid>http://grokked.tumblr.com/post/218185364</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:53:16 +0800</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
