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Bloggedead This sensational non-story contains a recursive summation of its own value, “…the evolution of the ‘pay-per-click’ economy has put the emphasis on reader traffic and financial return, not journalism.” Come on, NYT. (via greg) 

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Twitter Local Does exactly what it says on the tin. (via trey) 

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Facelift Emphasis on “lift.” What’s the matter guys? Couldn’t figure out how to get the colors, wave or Univers working? Not cool. (via karan) 

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CSS Variables Note David Hyatt’s name on the author’s list. Could something like CSS-SSC find a native implementation in a future version of Safari? (via ppk) 

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Passionless Pre-professionals Rob with some great advice on escaping an incentivized education system with your passion intact. 

Shufflesome Play Shufflesome, seller of fine iPod shuffle stickers, recently introduced a Mint-powered sales game/experiment. When shufflesome.com’s unique daily visitors exceed the previous high, prices drop. 

Hard Times Infographics on the evolution of the information economy. Inspired by the Charles Dickens’ novel of the same name. Gorgeous. Not that we’d expect anything less from familiar face Nicholas Felton. 

Quitter A founding member of Barnacle Apps for the Betterment of Society. 

Monocle Design Notes Thorough notes on the relatively recent monocle redesign. Saved for later. (Look out, time is collapsing! A year ago now qualifies as “relatively recent.”) 

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Fix Twitter Twitter’s “weekend” caching issues are rendering the service pretty much useless but Colin has figured out a way to force refresh your cache so you can catch up. (commenter Russell recommends toggling “Protect my updates” so as not to bother anyone else.) 

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50 Ways to Help the Planet Presented by the fashionable, game playing, typographic in-joking, and responsible lads of Wire & Twine. Mmh, timely. 

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Book Burning A newish book “Colorful Illustrations 93°C” is an unauthorized reproduction of the Little Chimp Society illustration community. Website creator Darren Di Lieto is reasonably upset and reaching out the community to help put a stop to the book’s distribution. 

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