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There are going to be a ton of places you can find election results, for your local races try the local news sites.  For the Federal races here are a few good places to check for news:

NPR - Nice interactive map and list that includes poll closing times
CNN - CNN’s Election Results Page
Pollster.com - Election [...]

Here be ye Piratey online booty fer International Talk Like a Pirate Day:

Ye Official Site
Get yer Pirate name
Arrr Lern ye some Pirate phrases an Pirate jokes an th’like
English to Pirate TranslatoRRRrrrrrrr
Set yer spyglass on some fellow buccaneers on flickARRRRRRRR
See where the scurvey dogs at Google add Pirate translation t’avoid walkin’ the plank!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  I’ll be updatin’ [...]

Happy Programmer Day everyone!  To learn more about Programmer day check out ProgrammerDay.info!  I started the site last year to promote the day and I’m hoping that it’ll be even more popular this year, maybe we’ll even get a wikipedia article that will stay up instead of getting deleted!
If you’re coming here from the Programmer [...]

Toluu’s tags, totally tremendous!  Today’s timesink: tagging Toluu totality!  Ok, enough of that, this really is great news.
Caleb Elston, Toluu’s founder, tells us that tagging was the most requested feature for Toluu.  I’m very impressed with the implementation as tagging really permeates the site now, it’s feels like a true integration, not a hacked together [...]

In an attempt to drive me mad, Google has been posting adsense ads for both Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and for Pedometers to my site. This juxtaposition of doughy temptation and a capitalistic encouragement of my weight loss attempts is the height of evil! Google knows that it can appeal to either side of [...]

In my very own “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment last week I published an article “KillerStartups Killed?” and used various analytic services to show KillerStartups current status versus competitors like Crunchbase.  Obviously, the title implies that KillerStartups had been surpassed and the Google Trends data seemed to back up the assumption.  The article was then picked [...]

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If you haven’t read the KnightKnetwork for long (or ever before) you may not know that I’m a programmer. I work primarily in a heavily macroed assembler that NO ONE else in the world still uses (or I doubt they do anyway).
I’m a big fan of The Pragmatic Programmer: From [...]