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title: links for 2007-12-07
date: 2007-12-07T05:24:30Z
modified: 2007-12-07T05:24:30Z
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categories:
  - Links
timestamp: 2007-12-07T05:24:30Z
tags:
  - Links
---

- [Kitty Wigs! The Wigs](http://kittywigs.com/wigindex.html)
    
    two words: high. larious.
    
    (tags: [cats](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cats) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [pets](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pets) [random](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/random) [wigs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wigs) [via:bree](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:bree))
- [NPR : Romney Hopes to Reassure Voters Over His Faith](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16962517&ft=1&f=1001)
    
    “The effort to establish an anti-religion in America, the anti-religion of secularism, has got to come to an end…We are a nation under God. And we do place our trust in Him.” – so much for the separation of church and state
    
    (tags: [religion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/religion) [politics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/politics) [mittromney](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mittromney) [faith](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/faith) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture) [america](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/america))
- [Linksys WRT54G3G-AT 3G HSDPA Router Sierra AirCard 875 ONLY \[RT-AT-LS\_B\] – $249.99 : 3Gstore.com, Verizon & Sprint EVDO Modems, Antennas, Amplifiers, Routers](http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=85&products_id=516&zenid=92ca9df7681e2c0ccbfc5be3e4d9514e)
    
    this would be very handy back in Maine
    
    (tags: [linksys](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linksys) [wifi](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wifi) [3g](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/3g) [router](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/router) [sierra](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sierra) [hsdpa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hsdpa))
- [Nokia N810 Internet Tablet – woohoo!](http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/gadgets/nokia-n810-internet-tablet-woohoo.asp)
    
    the GPS makes this compelling, but 4 hours of battery life just isn’t enough to justify the cost
    
    (tags: [nokia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nokia) [n810](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/n810) [gps](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gps) [mobile](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mobile) [ajax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ajax) [flash](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/flash) [skype](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/skype) [gizmo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gizmo) [video](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/video))
- [ROR Services | Scaling on Demand – Atlantic Dominion Solutions](http://www.techcfl.com/ruby-scaling-ondemand?gclid=CLnIpcLuk5ACFQ2nGgodnm6s_Q)
    
    Rails + EC2. interesting.
    
    (tags: [rubyonrails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rubyonrails) [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/amazon) [ec2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ec2))
- [The Great Ruby Shootout | Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming](http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/12/03/the-great-ruby-shootout/)
    
    interesting metrics on Ruby performance. looks like 1.9 is a welcome update, speedwise.
    
    (tags: [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [benchmarks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/benchmarks) [jruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jruby) [performance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/performance) [programming](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programming) [ruby1.9](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby1.9) [via:tim](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:tim))
- [ongoing · R and P](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/12/05/Ruby-and-Python)
    
    “It occurs to me that there might be a pattern here: Python for utilities and infrastructure, Ruby for applications. Early days yet, but it’s not completely implausible.” – not entirely sold on this, as Python’s behind some great apps, but interesting
    
    (tags: [python](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/python) [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [timbray](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/timbray) [infrastructure](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/infrastructure) [applications](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/applications) [programminglanguages](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/programminglanguages))