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Jamie found an excellent story about the trouble with social graphs. The author discusses the proliferation of social networking websites, the annoying problems this creates, and proposes an open solution to much of the problem. Essentially he is talking about an API for all those relationship systems not under the control of any single commercial entity, coupled with a shared login system. Had things like this been popularized a half a decade ago, we'd be looking at a different internet.

fenderdb writes "Brad Fitzgerald of LiveJournal fame has written a utility and a quick article on how all hard drives from the consumer level to the highest level 'enterprise' grade SCSI and SATA drives do not obey the fsync() function. Manufacturers are blatantly sacrificing integrity in favor of scoring higher on 'pure speed' performance benchmarking."

We received the following: "Brad Fitzpatrick runs the freevote website with the help of a a few friends. It's simply a website where you can create a voting booth and take a poll about any subject you're interested in. Recently, some Canadian news sources have been creating quite a stir about his site, talking about how it violates hate crime legislation. Why? Because irresponsible people, specifically a group of canadian high schoolers in this case, have been logging onto his site and supposedly have been creating 'hateful' voting questions." Interesting definition of "hateful".