These are arti­cles I found valu­able and rec­om­mend reading.

• Stephen Hawk­ing: God did not cre­ate Universe
  by Hacker News
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• Sin­ner­Schrader gewinnt Cre­ative Brand Chan­nel Com­pe­ti­tion von YouTube
  by Fis­chmarkt
  Unser YouTube-Kanal hat die Cre­ative Brand Chan­nel Com­pe­ti­tion gewon­nen. Der von YouTube aus­gerichtete Wet­tbe­werb gab deutschen Media– und Kreati­vagen­turen die Gele­gen­heit, einen eige­nen Top Brand Chan­nel zur Eigen­präsen­ta­tion zu erstellen. YouTube wollte damit die Agen­turen dazu her­aus­fordern, das kreative Poten­tial dieser Plat­tform zu erken­nen und zu nutzen. Well, done. In der Endrunde kon­nten wir uns gegen Agen­turen wie Jung von Matt, MetaDe­sign, Ogilvy und Scholz Friends durch­set­zen. Di…
• Mul­ti­vari­ate test­ing, A/B split test­ing and land­ing page opti­miza­tion soft­ware reviews | Which Multivariate?
  by www.whichmvt.com
  Note: A great overview for those who are into web­site opti­miza­tion and want to know what prod­ucts other than Google Web­si­teOp­ti­mizer and Omni­ture Test&Target are avaiable.
• Google’s Nine Year Shop­ping Spree, Illustrated
  by TechCrunch
  For those that remem­ber when Google Voice was Grand­Cen­tral … Other than miss­ing Like.com’s acqui­si­tion on August 20^th and hav­ing the Dou­bleClick grab plot­ted when Google revealed its intent to acquire in April 2007 and not when the offi­cial acqui­si­tion was announced in March of 2008, this is pretty much a com­pre­hen­sive record of the search giant’s ploy for world dom­i­na­tion, or what­ever they’re call­ing it these days. Also, for those that inevitably won’t read through all of this, yes…
• Net­flix lets its staff take as much hol­i­day as they want, when­ever they want
  by Hacker News
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• Apple knows what you want and what you need
  by Hacker News
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• Clus­ter­ing tech­niques for out­lier detection
  by Hacker News
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• Incep­tion by Pixar, The Trailer [Image Cache]
  by Giz­modo
  If you haven’t watched Incep­tion, spoil­ers alert. If you haven’t watched Up!, spoil­ers alert. For the rest of you, this Inception/Up! trailer mash-up will make you flip out. In the words of Mark Wil­son: “holy shit that trailer is amaz­ing.“ More »
• Big Bang Aban­doned In New Model of the Universe
  by Hacker News
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• iOS 4 and iPhone 3G is a match made in… what’s the oppo­site of heaven?
  by The Unof­fi­cial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Filed under: iPhone Do you have an iPhone 3G? Me, too. Have you updated it to iOS 4 yet? If the veins are pop­ping out of your neck and your skin is turn­ing green, you prob­a­bly have. If your iPhone 3G hasn’t been updated to iOS 4 yet, then do your iPhone, your­self, and your san­ity a favor: DON’T UPDATE YOUR iPHONE 3G TO iOS 4! Apple’s sup­port forums are buzzing like an angry hornet’s nest on reports that iOS 4 has all but crip­pled users’ iPhone 3Gs. By far the most-reported prob­lem is generali…
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