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1.The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired (salon.com)
230 points by michael_dorfman on Dec 27, 2010 | 110 comments
2.RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 (electronista.com)
220 points by evo_9 on Dec 27, 2010 | 77 comments
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5.How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking (stackoverflow.com)
154 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2010 | 52 comments
6.Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
154 points by bensummers on Dec 27, 2010 | 45 comments
7.On Depression & Getting Help (robdelaney.tumblr.com)
148 points by revorad on Dec 27, 2010 | 74 comments
8.How not to design a landing page: Tazo Tea (tazo.com)
116 points by mjfern on Dec 27, 2010 | 62 comments
9.YC W2011 Social Music Startup Seeking Co-founder
on Dec 27, 2010
10.Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie games (venturebeat.com)
102 points by shawndumas on Dec 27, 2010 | 28 comments
11.Dumb and gets things done (johndcook.com)
103 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2010 | 24 comments
12.Meld - a great visual diff and merge tool for linux (sourceforge.net)
96 points by tagnu_ on Dec 27, 2010 | 40 comments
13.Google's Marissa Mayer: Girls Can Be Geeks, Too (newsweek.com)
95 points by joshfraser on Dec 27, 2010 | 44 comments
14.Emotional Rescue (daringfireball.net)
92 points by cwilson on Dec 27, 2010 | 99 comments
15.Facebook Engineering Puzzles (facebook.com)
89 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Dec 27, 2010 | 49 comments
16.Vim plugin makes Ruby blocks into text objects (vimcasts.org)
83 points by subelsky on Dec 27, 2010 | 14 comments
17.James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation (brainpickings.org)
82 points by moondowner on Dec 27, 2010 | 24 comments
18.I don't dwell on the past (gabrielweinberg.com)
80 points by phsr on Dec 27, 2010 | 14 comments
19.The A.I. Revolution Is On (wired.com)
75 points by loboman on Dec 27, 2010 | 25 comments
20.2011: The Year Android Explodes (techcrunch.com)
75 points by dave1619 on Dec 27, 2010 | 49 comments
21.Anyone use AOLServer recently? (aolserver.github.com)
73 points by pelle on Dec 27, 2010 | 39 comments
22.Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications (addyosmani.com)
72 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 27, 2010 | 13 comments

Also of note though not specifically enumerated in this article, if you read the linked biography http://govsecinfo.com/events/govsec-2011/Speakers/Speaker%20... of Mark Rasch, who Salon says facilitated this whole thing, you'll notice his title is, "Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Consulting, Computer Science Corporation".

Computer Science Corporation aka, "CSC" is a major government contractor for IT services. What better way to sell more overpriced crap to the government than to foment a climate of panic around the Wikileaks issue. A problem that CSC no doubt has the perfect multi million dollar enterprise "solution" for.

In other words Mark Rasch has a likely significant and surely direct financial interest in making news coverage about Manning as sensationalistic as humanly possible.

24.Scott Adams: Tax the Comfortable (dilbert.com)
71 points by cwan on Dec 27, 2010 | 136 comments
25.Do a startup or travel around the world? (paraschopra.com)
67 points by paraschopra on Dec 27, 2010 | 62 comments
26.Chaos Computer Club Congress starts today. Livestreams. (iphoneblog.de)
66 points by imaginator on Dec 27, 2010 | 18 comments
27.Haskell and the "foul stench of cargo cult mathematics" (symbo1ics.com)
65 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2010 | 51 comments

I have an alternate solution: grow a backbone. Do not put up with childish/ignorant behavior. If your immediate superior harasses you for doing the job you are being paid for you need to go over their head.

I've had to deal with this while doodling/sketching ideas on a whiteboard. Not being firm with people does you no favors and makes them think their initial assessment was correct.

29.Apple is not a luxury brand (yafla.com)
65 points by shawndumas on Dec 27, 2010 | 46 comments
30."In Haskell we think for quite a long time before starting typing" (haskell.org)
64 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2010 | 31 comments

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