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This is re-posted from the News Apps Blog. Last week, we launched a new application for the RedEye - the Chicago homicide tracker. The web site makes it simple and interesting to browse homicide crime data for the city. RedEye reporter Tracy Swartz has been compiling the homicides since Jan. 1, ...

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While working on News Mixer and another django project, I've refactored all the facebook connect code Brian Boyer and I wrote into a separate application. I've opened a google code page for it. I figured if it's useful to me, it would be useful to others. It's a simple thing really. ...

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Tonight the group leaves for Delhi after traveling through the towns and cities of Madhaya Pradesh. It was great country, friendly people, and only a small bit of the hustle and crush of Mumbai. We saw buddhist and hindu caves, hills carved into forts and magnificent palaces. We stayed in some beautiful places, ...

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A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a neat little reading applet called spreeder.com. You copy and paste text into the applet, and then it would flash each word at you one-by-one. The idea being that it forces you to read faster, teaches you speed read or whatever. To be honest ...

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The Sun-Times published the names, salaries and positions of 145,000 Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago employees on their website this weekend. The names and salaries are online in the form of a simple searchable database. The reporter published a couple articles with analysis of the massive database. One article talked ...

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