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• Trying to hack a good night's sleep - Ars Technica
• 20 Visualizations to Understand Crime | FlowingData
• h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing--and will change--human beings in fundamental ways.
• Parents Pulling the Plugs on Williamsburg Trust-Funders - NYTimes.com
  Hmm, maybe it is time to move to NYC...
• Break-in at home of City Council president | ajc.com
  This city is un-fucking-believable.
• Bye Bye FeedMyTorrents, Hello ShowRSS | TorrentFreak
  The ever shifting world of digital piracy...*sigh*
• More Than Packaging: The History of Beer Cans | WebUrbanist
• Sparse file: Information from Answers.com
• ATLANTA CITY COUNCIL, THE POLICE, THE MAYOR AND A BASEBALL BAT > SundayPaper.com > The Ramage Report
  So, there’s the $8 million in tax funding the mayor and City Council blew on the Brand Atlanta Campaign. It could have preempted the police furloughs and cuts to the officers’ insurance if it hadn’t gone into the pockets of public relations people and hip hop artists.
• American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
• The Quiet Coup - The Atlantic (May 2009)
  Best piece on the economic blowout I've read yet.
• It was a good week for ... | ajc.com
  Atlanta police (and crime victims). An audit released Wednesday found that calls in south and west Atlanta put a strain on officer resources —- and some community leaders worry that response times suffer as a result. “We need officers where the crime is,” said Steven Lee, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Merchants Association.
• Atlanta tax hike proposed to end police furloughs | Fresh Loaf
  So long as the tax hike GUARANTEES and end to the furloughs I am game.
• Art Bikes With Bite | Autopia
  fucking rad!
• The Competition: Core 2 Duo And Quad S-Series - Review Tom's Hardware : Low-Power Face-Off: AMD's Athlon X2 Vs. Intel's Core 2 Duo
  The s-models are much more expensive than the regular Core 2 Quad CPUs, and they don’t necessarily save a lot of power. Idle power consumption only differs by a few watts, and we found that peak power varies by roughly 15 W on average, depending on the application.