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		<title>What We Talk about When We Talk about Bandwidth</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/best-practices/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-bandwidth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cellular carriers&#8217; competing claims as to what constitutes 4G (fourth-generation) cellular data networks got me to thinking about how speed is only one part of the story about why allegedly faster networks are being built. I&#8217;ve been writing about Wi-Fi since 2000, and that informs my thinking, because Wi-Fi has matured to a point where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zappos lost $1.6 million over-night due to pricing mistake&#8230; and honors prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deal is obviously dead now, but kudos to Zappos for honoring their mistake. Hey everyone – As many of you may know (and I’m sure a lot of you do not), 6pm.com is our sister site. 6pm.com is where brandaholics go for their guilt free daily fix of the brands they crave. Every day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Spot a handgun, the beautiful information edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, Edward Tufte featured Megan Jaegerman&#8217;s NYT graphic on spotting a hidden handgun (click through below for the whole thing). It&#8217;s not only informative, it&#8217;s also beautiful. The same page features many of Jaegerman&#8217;s other NYT graphics, each a little work of information art. Megan Jaegerman&#8217;s brilliant news graphics]]></description>
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		<title>Test your broadband speed&#8230; help the FCC keep ISPs honest</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/best-practices/test-your-broadband-speed-keep-your-isp-honest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FCC launched a consumer broadband test on their blog broadband.gov yesterday. Internet speeds in the US are often 50% to 80% lower than advertised and its vital consumers have reliable information on the actual performance of their connections. One of the two tools the FCC is using is the Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT), an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get a Credit Card Through Credit Unions and Small Banks to Save</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/offtopic/get-a-credit-card-through-credit-unions-and-small-banks-to-save/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week the credit industry was changed by new consumer protection laws. They&#8217;re hardly taking the cut in profiteering laying down, however, and it&#8217;s up to consumers to protect themselves from new money-grabbing tactics. Now that it&#8217;s harder to arbitrarily and retroactively jack up your APR—a huge source of profit for credit card companies—they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boring + Boring = Pleasant?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read that Aristotle taught his students while they walked around. It seemed to enhance learning and make the activity more enjoyable. The self-experimenter Seth Roberts has found that doing two boring things together, like walking on a treadmill and studying flash cards, results in a pleasant experience&#8230; Fact 1: For the last few weeks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bunnie Huang uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards&#8217; crappy QA</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/cool/bunnie-huang-uncovers-the-mystery-of-kingston-microsd-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bunnie Huang was in South China overseeing production on his versatile ChumbyOne device, he discovered a major quality issue with Kingston&#8217;s MicroSD cards. At first, he assumed that he&#8217;d gotten a counterfeit batch, but further investigation proved them to be legit. Kingston wasn&#8217;t willing to give Bunnie any details on its QA process, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Biggest Rip-offs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text messages &#8211; 6,500% markup Text messages are short, quick and cheap to transmit. So why are they adding so much to your wireless bill? The messages are such a tiny piece of data that they cost carriers only about one-third of a cent to deliver, according to computer scientist Srinivasan Keshav, who testified before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/offtopic/the-debtor-that-debt-collectors-hate-to-call/</link>
		<comments>http://landofthefreeish.com/offtopic/the-debtor-that-debt-collectors-hate-to-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Cunningham has made $20,000 from 18 lawsuits he&#8217;s filed against debt collectors for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). In fact, it&#8217;s something a part-time job/hobby for him. To ensnare his first FDCPA-violating collector, with voice recorder running, he called back the number they left on his answering machine, and asked: &#8220;Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/foss/why-you-should-use-opengl-and-not-directx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we&#8217;re met with stares of disbelief &#8212; why would anyone use OpenGL? DirectX is the future. When we tell graphics card representatives that we use OpenGL, the temperature of the room drops by ten degrees. This baffles us. [...]]]></description>
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