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title: links for 2008-05-20
date: 2008-05-20T05:31:00Z
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timestamp: 2008-05-20T05:31:00Z
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- [May 19, 1780: Darkness at Noon Enshrouds New England](http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0519)
    
    i’d never heard about this: weird
    
    (tags: [1780](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/1780) [history](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/history) [darknessatnoon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/darknessatnoon))
- [Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2008](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/may#mon-19-music)
    
    “So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t theirs, over a network that isn’t theirs, because, well, just because.” – pretty much, yeah
    
    (tags: [riaa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/riaa) [johngruber](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/johngruber) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [industry](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/industry))
- [Subways are for sleeping, By Edmund G. Love (Harper’s Magazine)](http://harpers.org/archive/1956/03/0007088)
    
    fascinating bit of post WWII American history
    
    (tags: [city](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/city) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture) [poverty](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/poverty) [urban](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/urban) [homelessness](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/homelessness) [wwii](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wwii) [via:joe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:joe))
- [Welcome – doctype – Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/Welcome?tm=6)
    
    an MSDN for the web, by the web? ok, i’m interested
    
    (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [code](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/code) [doctype](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/doctype) [reference](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/reference) [css](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/css) [html](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/html) [javascript](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/javascript) [documentation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/documentation) [development](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/development) [dom](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dom))
- [Compy 386!](http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html)
    
    the origins of Trogdor the Burninator
    
    (tags: [trogdor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trogdor) [burninator](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/burninator) [strongbad](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/strongbad) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [cartoons](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cartoons))