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If you thought Startup Weekend was a hackathon, you'd be about half right. According to a recent report, the event's focus has shifted from executing clever tech tricks to solving problems in a community.

It's an exercise in practical entrepreneurship rather than pure coding.

With the new year right around the corner, it's worth thinking about where you can get the biggest bang for your buck--quite literally.

In a lot of organizations, budgeting is a funny exercise that requires you to "use it or lose it" at the end of the year while also having surprisingly detailed plans for next year's money.

Packt: "Ask just about any beginning modeler (and many experienced ones) and they'll tell you that the ear is a challenge!

There are so many turns and folds in the human ear that it poses a modeling nightmare. But, that being said, it is also an excellent exercise in clean modeling."

Book burning, at least in modern democracies, is supposed to be something of the past. Indeed, with books taking to devices like the Kindle, burning would seem an unlikely, if possible, exercise.

That may or may not be quite so, however, depending on how you read last week's news.

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