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1.		Greece defaults (reuters.com)
		500 points by MaysonL on July 21, 2011 \| 145 comments
2.		A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life (arstechnica.com)
		467 points by diogenescynic on July 21, 2011 \| 101 comments
3.		Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI (pastebin.com)
		459 points by p4bl0 on July 21, 2011 \| 241 comments
4.		How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates (toutapp.com)
		326 points by revorad on July 21, 2011 \| 47 comments
5.		US debt visualized (wtfnoway.com)
		240 points by nuromancer on July 21, 2011 \| 87 comments
6.		Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No. (techcrunch.com)
		233 points by csmajorfive on July 21, 2011 \| 113 comments
7.		Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay (gigaom.com)
		200 points by nextparadigms on July 21, 2011 \| 46 comments
8.		Fridge is Joining Google+ Team (frid.ge)
		173 points by joetyson on July 21, 2011 \| 67 comments
9.		Learn JavaScript (stackoverflow.com)
		166 points by lichengcai on July 21, 2011 \| 29 comments
10.		Which Fish: With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat? (whichfish.org)
		161 points by Zarkonnen on July 21, 2011 \| 93 comments
11.		A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down (physics.stackexchange.com)
		152 points by ochekurishvili on July 21, 2011 \| 80 comments
12.		Should scientific articles be available free online? (slate.com)
		141 points by zoowar on July 21, 2011 \| 60 comments
13.		Compiling Clojure to javascript pt 1 (fogus.me)
		133 points by nickik on July 21, 2011 \| 11 comments
14.		Computable Document Format (wolfram.com)
		129 points by franze on July 21, 2011 \| 79 comments
15.		Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes (developer.apple.com)
		114 points by cpr on July 21, 2011 \| 25 comments
		nathanb on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI "it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts" This is quite the hypocritical statement coming from the FBI. As far as I can tell, the only difference between Anonymous, Lulzsec, and the FBI is that the FBI act by executive fiat. I don't support Internet vigilanteism, but I also don't support the concept of the FBI as an untouchable force who are no longer held accountable by the public they are theoretically serving. At this point, I'm not sure which one I find more scary.
17.		Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple displays (plus.google.com)
		108 points by idan on July 21, 2011 \| 59 comments
18.		Linux recieves video gift from Microsoft for its 20th birthday (h-online.com)
		107 points by aditiyaa1 on July 21, 2011 \| 65 comments
		kwantam on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" d... Unfortunately, there is nothing that will prevent Cisco from doing this again in the future. They didn't get the result they wanted, but in all likelihood they aren't going to see any further rebuke for this ridiculous perversion of justice. At the end of the day, someone at Cisco made the decision to try and completely ruin this guy's life. My sense of justice tells me that person should face criminal liability for his actions. My sense of cynicism tells me he'll get promoted instead.
		tmorton on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: US debt visualized This is exactly the wrong sort of visualization. It provides no information other than "big number is big, lol." The US debt is a big number. So big that people have a hard time wrapping their head around it. They need a point of comparison. So what's a good point of comparison for the US debt? Hmm... we could use the federal budget, or GDP, or the world GDP, or the debt of other large nations. Or we could break it down per capita, and compare it to other per-capita things, like income or tax burden. Or... I know! We can convert the thing to hundred dollar bills, and put it next to the statue of liberty! That's a meaningful comparison!
21.		Harvard and class (theparisreview.org)
		85 points by davi on July 21, 2011 \| 14 comments
22.		People who work from home are more satisfied with their jobs (gigaom.com)
		84 points by jimsteinhart on July 21, 2011 \| 53 comments
23.		Preventing form re-submission with HTTP 303 redirects (jonthornton.com)
		76 points by heyjonboy on July 21, 2011 \| 27 comments
24.		Even a URL tells a story (reillybrennan.com)
		75 points by arepb on July 21, 2011 \| 43 comments
		techiferous on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Why I Hate Frameworks Framework: it calls you. Library: you call it.
26.		Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key Product Guys Are Out (techcrunch.com)
		75 points by Jsarokin on July 21, 2011 \| 30 comments
27.		Pneumatic logic board made entirely from wood doubles as desk/organ (kagenschaefer.com)
		73 points by paulgerhardt on July 21, 2011 \| 4 comments
28.		Larry Page's First 100 Days as Google CEO: Focus, Focus, Focus (theatlantic.com)
		70 points by grellas on July 21, 2011 \| 7 comments
		sambeau on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Why I Hate Frameworks This comment totally missed the point: `A good framework is nothing more than your toolbox filled with a good selection of tools. Some tools are very general purpose (standard claw hammer) while others are very specialized (roofing hammer). Having them all available and knowing when to use them is half the battle.` No, sir. That is a good library.
30.		A Roadmap for Rich Scientific Data Structures in Python (wesmckinney.com)
		70 points by wesm on July 21, 2011 \| 12 comments
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