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hackworthon Farmer saves $200,000 with poo power

not surprising. i had a friend back home whose father ran a pig farm, and he was recapturing methane and using it for power back in the early 90's.

hackworthon Narwhal - hello 0.1

xulrunner is more than just javascript, it is also XUL and XPCOM, and is meant for apps with a GUI. This appears to let you run just JavaScript as if it were in a "virtual machine"-ish environment.

hackworthon The Googlebot runs Javascript

it also fills out forms on your pages to see where they lead: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-...

hackworthon Ask HN: What questions should I ask a startup before joining?

how do they plan on growing your team? do they have a management strategy? may seem mundane, but it will end up affecting your job directly, and if they don't know what they are going to do, you may end up having to deal with a lot of the fallout of disorganization.

hackworthon A Note-Taking App for Mac OS X

xpad is great, but i think it is no longer under development (which is why the author changed it from for pay to freeware).

hackworthon BaseJS: A JavaScript Framework For Mobile Safari

i wonder what dean edwards thinks about that name.