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If you are a linux nerd like myself you may find gitstat interesting. From the site:
gitstat is an Open Source, web-based git statistics interface. You may browse up-to-date statistics information, search and overview changeset(patch) status and monitor the git tree.
Going here you can see the latest stats for the linux kernel. Pretty cool, much [...]

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Looks like an epic battle:

…. no this is not me.

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Apparently Transformers did well enough (I didn’t see it) that the movie industry is doing another classic giant robot movie … Voltron. I have to say that this is great news, as a child I loved Voltron and had the action figures and etc. Here is the Variety article. The IMDB  and Wikipedia pages too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8

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[via CyclingNews]:
Tailwind Sports has announced the end of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team today, confirming rumours that cropped up when the team failed to announce a new sponsor after winning the Tour de France. The team was given notice that the Discovery Channel would not renew its sponsorship back in February, leading to [...]

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Lately I have been screwing around with XMPP (Jabber) and Ruby. It’s pretty slick what you can to fairly easily. The XMPP4R library makes things cake. Also, Jive’s opensource Openfire XMPP chat server is easy to get up and going. Anywho, here’s a quick example of how to connect and login to a chat server [...]

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