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Jason is a 24 year old guy from London, England, UK.
Likes 652 pages, 14 videos, 69 photos11 fans
Member since Oct 20, 2006

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Cuckoo collectors summer ritual
Liked it Mar 29, 2:55pm 1 review bizarre, clocks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7320561.stm
"Roman Piekarski, 55, joint owner of the Cuckooland museum in Tabley, near Knutsford, is spending the weekend changing every one of his 600 clocks." Ouch!
Theocacao: Writing Modern Copy for Product Pages
No opinion Mar 20, 7:41pm 1 review writing
http://theocacao.com/document.page/562
Interesting article about writing copy for your products.
Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code
Liked it Mar 14, 5:48pm 3 reviews computers, programming, css, javascript, performance
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-we-improved-performance-o...
Useful tips for improving performance.

"20% of the time is spent loading the document HTML, the other 80% is spent downloading CSS and JS files."
http://vortrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/magic-eye.gif
Liked it Mar 14, 5:51am 26 reviews humor, magic-eye
http://vortrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/magic-eye.gif
This is the best thing EVER!
How Did A-Rod Get So Good? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Liked it Mar 13, 9:28am 1 review sports, practice
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/how-did-a-rod-get-so-good/
Your level of natural talent notwithstanding, excellence is accomplished mainly through the tenets of deliberate practice, which are roughly:

1. Focus on technique as opposed to outcome.
2. Set specific goals.
3. Get good, prompt feedback, and use it.
Jason Davies: Stream of Consciousness
Liked it Mar 10, 6:50pm 1 review computers, programming, maths, toy, markov
http://www.jasondavies.com/markov/
Demo of using Markov chains to generate nonsense text from any input. Sometimes it actually makes sense, in a weird kind of way...
Home - Shoetube
Liked it Mar 9, 7:54pm 3 reviews shopping, shoes
http://www.shoetube.tv/
Novel take on Youtube: Shoetube!
fbfriends
Liked it Mar 4, 9:14pm 1 review stats, facebook
http://www.jasondavies.com/fbfriends/
Handy utility for ranking your facebook friends based on various statistics.
djWarehouse - Trac
Liked it Mar 4, 3:35am 1 review programming, internet, e-commerce, django
http://djwarehouse.org/
Useful Django-based e-commerce shopping cart.
django-photologue - Google Code
Liked it Feb 28, 5:04pm 1 review computers, django
http://code.google.com/p/django-photologue/
Useful Django photo management application.
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