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In more medical design news, the Des Moines Register reports on how design is being used to save lives at Iowa’s Mercy Medical Center-West Lakes Hospital, following “three years of design, discussion and research…. Mercy officials spoke with staff members and patients in addition to visiting sites throughout the country as part of a planning process focusing on ‘evidence-based design.’”

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To see an auto dealership pay someone to dress up like a Transformer in order to sell Camaros is, well, kind of depressing. Then you fast-forward to 0:32 to watch the transformation and you’re like Holy Cow, how did they do that?

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I ask:

Snow Leopard Delivers:

I can only conclude that Steve Jobs personally reads my tweets.

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Making your own map imagery is now much, much easier. Tile Drawer is an Amazon EC2 (our Amazon EC2 API profile) machine image with all the software needed to create your own map tile server.

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If you’ve submitted an application to the App Store, you know that sinking feeling of not being able to test your final build. The binary that gets signed with the “App Store” distribution mechanism cannot be run on your test devices: you can’t be sure that the final bits you send to Apple are complete.

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Somehow all the world seems to move Subversion repositories into Mercurial but not the other way around.

In many ways I understand that, but I had to move my own little project stored in a local Mercurial repository onto the official infrastructure, which happens to use Subversion. That cost me first some time searching for a migration solution and then hacking one myself.

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Abstract

This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the Web Sockets protocol for two-way communication with a remote host.

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A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom (and RSS).

Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) when a topic (feed URL) they're interested in is updated.

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A UI library for displaying location based data in spherical coordinate systems using UI Kit on the iPhone.

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