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Friday, May 24, 2013

• Android’s Market Share Is Literally A Joke
• True-Color GIF Example
• The Open Source Report Card
• Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled
• This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History

Thursday, May 23, 2013

• Microsoft teases Internet Explorer 11 WebGL support on Vine

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

• The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites
• Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie
• parseInt Radix
• Justice Department’s Overreaching on Leaks Threatens Freedom of the Press
• Another Chilling Leak Investigation
• The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

• Excerpts of Apple Executives’ Senate Committee Testimony on Tax Policy
• Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
• Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley!

Monday, May 20, 2013

• Jank Busting With Daft Punk

Sunday, May 19, 2013

• The Peculiar Politics of Karl Rove’s ‘Outrage’ Over the IRS Flap
• "Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies."

Saturday, May 18, 2013

• Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet
• New Zealand-based Vend raises $8M without turning to the Valley

Friday, May 17, 2013

• Reddit’s Ad Sales Pitch Deck
• Avoiding Unnecessary Paints
• Welcome to Google Island
• What I Wish I Had Known When I Graduated College
• All of Murray’s New Zealand Tourism posters from Flight of the Conchords

Thursday, May 16, 2013

• Who Has Your Back? 2013 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The IRS should do more, not less, scrutinizing of political groups
• The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
• Is Obama the New Nixon?
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" Howard Johnsons Children’s Menu (1968)
• Apple’s new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

• Where is Street View available?
• Google Maps guessing game GeoGuessr: Tips and cheats to beat the game.
• Cron and Crontab usage and examples
• Brainwave Cat Ears
• The H Security - Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

• Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records

Monday, May 13, 2013

• Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People
• Demand a Plan

Sunday, May 12, 2013

• The Keeling Curve | What Does 400 ppm Look Like?
• Climate-warming gas in atmosphere passes 400ppm milestone
• We’ve Hit the Carbon Level We Were Warned About. Here’s What That Means.
• London in 1927 on Vimeo
• iGrill
• "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."
• Tail wagging

Saturday, May 11, 2013

• We Just Passed the Climate’s "Grim Milestone"
• 7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Friday, May 10, 2013

• CSS Property name list
• REI 1440 Project - Celebrating every minute spent outside

Thursday, May 9, 2013

• A Guide to the Complex World of Airline Fees
• Your Money or Your Life
• Seema Jilani: My Racist Encounter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

• Is silent circle really safe?
• The Westside Workshop

Monday, May 6, 2013

• A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It’s Pretty Fantastic.
• An Introduction To Programming Type Systems
• The 150 Things the World’s Smartest People Are Afraid Of

Sunday, May 5, 2013

• How to Bake a Potato in the Microwave: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

Saturday, May 4, 2013

• Would You Give Up Eating Hamburgers to Stop Climate Change?
• Why Privacy Matters
• Sun on Privacy: ‘Get Over It’
• Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
• Google Glass developer writes an app to snap photos with just a wink
• Idiots.
• Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons

Friday, May 3, 2013

• Apple Begins Countdown to 50 Billion App Store Downloads

Thursday, May 2, 2013

• Emojicons
• 16-Year-Old Girl Arrested and Charged With a Felony For Science Project Mistake
• JavaScript’s Slightly Stricter Mode

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

• You don’t have to make yourself miserable to build a great company
• Free Culture Foundation » Blog Archive » Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users.
• McDonald’s Theory — What I Learned Building…

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

• Music in Human Evolution
• The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all
• Announcing SunSpider 1.0
• Semantic Versioning
• How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap
• UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now

Saturday, April 27, 2013

• Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
• The One Where Dell Admits It Doesn’t Know Anything About The Post-PC era
• What the world eats — a week’s worth of groceries

Friday, April 26, 2013

• Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Android
• Coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California
• Apple’s WWDC conference sells out in a record 2 minutes

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

• 9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity
• Use OSX Finder Quicklook to preview all plain text files
• Gagging on Ag-gag Laws
• The same motive for anti-US ‘terrorism’ is cited over and over
• The Barbaric Lust to Execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• A Cartoonist Responds to Boston
• This is ‘Sarah Hanson’: Startup founder confesses to idiotic plot to hoax tech press
• Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
• My First Year in the App Store

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

• Emotional Intelligence Quiz
• Five Tips for Reading Facial Expressions
• Apple’s Newest Product Introduction: Its Quarterly Earnings Report
• Pop Chart Lab — A Visual Compendium of Cameras
• Daring Fireball: Everything Else
• Grasshopper 250m Test | Ring of Fire
• Alleged ‘al-Qaeda-supported’ plot against Via train thwarted by tips from Muslims
• How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain
• Garmoshka
• Rand Paul: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Should Not Be Treated As Enemy Combatant
• The Paris Time Capsule Apartment

Monday, April 22, 2013

• Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Sunday, April 21, 2013

• Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence

Saturday, April 20, 2013

• SonVolt.net : Official Son Volt site
• How to Beat the Gun Lobby
• How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble
• Russian vs. U.S. Human Rights
• He Is Comfortable with Bush’s Inferno
• You are not Steve Jobs
• Watch what happens when you wring out a washcloth in space?
• The Brothers Tsarnaev
• CCR Condemns Miranda Exception in Boston Marathon Suspect Case
• A Toast to My Kelty Redwing 2900 Backpack
• Why Tsarnaev Should Be Read His Miranda Rights - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Friday, April 19, 2013

• On translate3d and layer creation hacks
• The Media and the ‘Dark-Skinned’ Men from Chechnya
• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

Thursday, April 18, 2013

• It’s not NRA dollars that are blocking gun control. It’s the NRA’s narrative
• FBI — Photos
• Blame where blame is due

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

• Every War On Drugs Myth Thoroughly Destroyed By A Retired Police Captain
• Battery Breakthrough Offers 30 Times More Power, Charges 1,000 Times Faster
• A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip
• csscss by zmoazeni
• A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America
• List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls
• Killer cure: why is the US creating new viruses and stockpiling the vaccines?
• Live map of SF MUNI

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

• The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

Monday, April 15, 2013

• we used to sleep twice each night
• Triage: My New Favorite Email App for iPhone

Sunday, April 14, 2013

• Helios 🚀
• The Carpool Guy Challenges Corporate Personhood
• Is Renewable Energy’s Biggest Problem Solved?
• You Lookin’ at Me? Reflections on Google Glass.

Friday, April 12, 2013

• Fisker Karma
• Saturn’s moon Prometheus: Flying saucer moon seen by Cassini spacecraft.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

• PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops
• North Korean Missile Test Delayed by Windows 8
• If Mad Men was today.
• IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant
• You Can’t Tell the Attorney General She Has an Epic Butt, But Here’s What You CAN Do

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

• Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

• Bill McKibben, How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Democrats?
• The Elephant in the Room: Militarism
• Cable: P860114-1573_MC_b
• Daft Punk Skrillex Remix: Jack Conte Brings Together Electronic Giants In Mesmerizing Video (VIDEO)

Monday, April 8, 2013

• Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google is gone?
• Stanford’s School Of Persuasion: BJ Fogg On How To Win Users And Influence Behavior
• The distraction-free iPhone (or ‘Why I’m happier since I disabled Safari’)
• The Power And Weakness That Come With Being The Default
• How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple’s OK

Sunday, April 7, 2013

• Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
• If Brittney Griner gets an NBA tryout, the world won’t end

Friday, April 5, 2013

• Apple’s iMessage encryption trips up feds’ surveillance

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

• Chrome Blink FAQ
• Freeing the Floats of the Future From the Tyranny of the Rectangle
• Sexism at the border: A personal account

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

• The Treason of the Intellectuals
• Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN

Sunday, March 31, 2013

• War risk rises sharply in Korea
• JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
• Donglegate: Why the Tech Community Hates Feminists

Friday, March 29, 2013

• Portland’s MAX LRT Map – Super Mario 3 Style
• Manipulating automatically linked text on iOS in Mobile Safari and Mail

Thursday, March 28, 2013

• Happy Cat With Three Little Tomatoes
• What’s The Point Of Promises?

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

• ‘A Needed Response’ Might Be The Simplest, Best Reaction To Steubenville Rape Case
• CSS Star Wars Crawling Titles
• Furbee - My Js1k Spring ‘13 entry

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

• IE11 to disguise itself as WebKit (and not Firefox!)

Monday, March 25, 2013

• Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss
• The Day That TV News Died

Sunday, March 24, 2013

• Meet the scientific accident that could change the world
• Being right doesn’t matter

Saturday, March 23, 2013

• A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control

Friday, March 22, 2013

• Tear-able Cloth
• Apple ID password reset exploit reportedly in the wild
• Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq
• Pentagon Papers lawyer on Obama, secrecy and press freedoms: ‘worse than Nixon’
• Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
• Titles are Toxic

Thursday, March 21, 2013

• Tern
• Self-Reliance
• Two reasons climate change is not like other environmental problems
• Michelle Shocked Controversy Continues: The Damning Audio Transcript
• Want to Be Happier? Stop Doing These 10 Things Right Now
• Trojan.Yontoo.1 leads among new adware Trojans for Mac

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

• Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns, headed for Apple
• Android niceties
• sokolovstas/SublimeWebInspector

Monday, March 18, 2013

• Mac OS X Lion CSS3 by Alessio Atzeni
• The Cost Of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years Of Regret
• WTF Mobile Web

Sunday, March 17, 2013

• Apple stays on the defensive with new iPhone promotional campaign

Saturday, March 16, 2013

• What’s the difference between Currying and Partial Application?
• Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

Thursday, March 14, 2013

• Obama should lift secrecy on drones
• Obama’s secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion
• First Impressions of Samsung Galaxy S4

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

• Apple’s Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy’s eve
• In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung
• Hipster Ipsum | Artisanal filler text for your site or project.
• Touch And Mouse: Together Again For The First Time
• How to lose weight (in the browser)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

• Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History
• The Threat of an Imperial Presidency
• If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?
• Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change
• MegaGear Bluetooth Keyboard Case For Apple iPhone 5
• NUU MiniKey for iPhone 5
• CSS 3D Cube
• Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
• Timepiece rounded | An Opentype Font displaying Time as an analogue Clock

Monday, March 11, 2013

• Edita’s Casting

Sunday, March 10, 2013

• The Start-Up Trap
• The Pragmatics of TDD
• Who’s a Nerdy Girl?
• People of South by Southwest — Please, Free Grumpy Cat
• The Drone Question Obama Hasn’t Answered

Saturday, March 9, 2013

• Seattle dive bar becomes first to ban Google Glass

Friday, March 8, 2013

• Home | Random Hacks of Kindness
• New iPad 3rd Generation, iPod Touch items in Refurbished Outlet store on eBay!
• Matt Groening’s Artwork for Apple
• .: FLASH VS HTML :.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

• NASA detects buried flood channels on Mars

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

• Honesty and the Human Body

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

• The Top 10 Photography Lighting Facts You Should Know
• How WebKit Works
• ECMA-262-3 in detail. Chapter 5. Functions.
• Headless Functional Testing with Selenium and PhantomJS
• Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion

Monday, March 4, 2013

• Because Of Steve Jobs’s First Public iPhone Call, Starbucks Still Gets Orders For 4,000 Lattes
• Climate change flow chart: How to win any global warming argument.
• Cloudy With a Chance of Dragons: NYT’s "Game of Thrones" Ad Takes Over The News
• On Facebook, Sharing Can Come at a Cost

Sunday, March 3, 2013

• The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
• U.S. Passenger Rail Ridership
• This is why Obama can’t make a deal with Republicans
• Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

Saturday, March 2, 2013

• How Search Works

Friday, March 1, 2013

• Fight the Keystone XL Pipeline
• Light Table
• You’d Need 76 Work Days to Read All Your Privacy Policies Each Year
• Why do cars have brakes?
• Secrets of Awesome JavaScript API Design

Thursday, February 28, 2013

• HUBOT
• Kontext: A context-shift transition inspired by iOS

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

• The 4 Seasons of Seattle Weather
• Wicked Lasers | Blue, Red, Green Laser Pointers
• Upside-Down-Ternet
• DOJ admits Aaron’s prosecution was political

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

• Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds
• The Sequester Debacle: Who Takes the Fall?
• We are All Bradley Manning: 1000 Days in Jail without a Conviction
• A compatibility table showing the available default system fonts across different mobile platforms
• HTML’s new template tag: standardizing client-side templating
• I Shot Him | Changing Hearts, Minds, and Habits.
• This Is Responsive | Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design

Monday, February 25, 2013

• "[T]he very nature of the presidency of the United States at its core has become the vehicle for permanently unlawful behavior."
• Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists?
• Every Last Drop – An Interactive Website about Water Saving

Sunday, February 24, 2013

• Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil
• The Hidden History of Water Torture
• Waterboarding Historically Controversial
• Now Six - Not One - Hanford Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste

Saturday, February 23, 2013

• The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
• Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote

Friday, February 22, 2013

• Supersonic ping-pong-ball gun leaves cartoonish ball-shaped hole in hapless paddles
• Behold the 900-MPH Supersonic Ping-Pong Bazooka
• Profiling Long Paint Times with DevTools’ Continuous Painting Mode
• Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
• Git merge vs. rebase
• Nataly Dawn, On the road, out of debt

Thursday, February 21, 2013

• Gap year couple’s blog
• Aaron Swartz’s FBI File
• Solving Performance for 2D & 3D Web Apps: Finally!
• 7 Reasons Why the ‘Authentic’ Travel Experience Is a Myth

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

• Transitions & Animations

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

• The New Know Nothing Party and the High Price of Willful Ignorance
• Very Serious People
• Drones over there, total surveillance over here
• Report ties cyberattacks on U.S. computers to Chinese military
• All web pages ‘are 19 clicks away’
• Chanel Première
• Jiouhe Consultancy Official Site

Sunday, February 17, 2013

• Chickpea / quinoa burger

Saturday, February 16, 2013

• The true power of regular expressions
• How to Overcome Setbacks
• Introducing Boxen

Thursday, February 14, 2013

• ECMAScript 6 and Default Argument don’t code today what you can’t debug tomorrow
• How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year
• Inclusivity Is Not A Double Standard: Why Forbes is Wrong about Women in Tech

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

• Hedges v. Obama
• Washington’s War-Makers Aren’t “in a Bubble,” They’re in a Bunker
• WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
• About Blackle - Energy Saving Search
• Squishy Toggle Buttons
• Opera switching to WebKit: thoughts and guesses
• Devs respond to Opera WebKit switch
• Ken’s Street Fighter II with animated sprites
• Opera switches to WebKit
• Kick Ass - Destroy the web

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
• Touré: America May Have Committed War Crimes Via Drone—but Keep Up Strikes Anyway
• To Obama: Close the Deal with Iran
• The Hubris of the Drones
• A Bunch of GOP Men Still Don’t Think Women Need Protection Against Domestic Violence But Thankfully They’re Outnumbered
• How I Learned To Stop Being Homesick and Love Portland
• Smooth Scroll to Top Using CSS3 Animations!
• When a Super Bowl Promotion Goes Right
• Basic Canvas Animation Using JavaScript
• The Greatest tool for sorting CSS properties in specific order
• Testacular - Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript
• Introducing the New HTML5 <main> Element
• Duet, Avocado, Between: Apps promise to help keep your relationship alive.
• Windows of New York | A weekly illustrated atlas

Monday, February 11, 2013

• Will the Keystone XL Pipeline Go Down?
• "[A] release of just sixty GE salmon into a wild population of 60,000 would lead to the extinction of the wild population in less than 40 fish generations."
• DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks
• San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Is About To Become The World’s Largest Light Sculpture
• DevTools: Visually Re-engineering CSS For Faster Paint Times
• Get Sharp - sharpen your photography skills
• The Apple iWatch
• Make Your Own Tilt Lens!
• Pioneer Square Tech Map: Where are tech companies hanging their shingles?

Sunday, February 10, 2013

• CSS 3D Clouds

Friday, February 8, 2013

• Javascript PC Emulator
• Using background clip for text with CSS fallback
• I Am Better Than Your Kids
• the_coding_love();
• Five things you can do to make HTML5 perform better
• Redskins name deemed ‘racial slur’ at Smithsonian
• The base64 encoder has a fixed point.
• CS2: Data Structures and Algorithms
• Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?
• Effect of responsive design on an e-commerce site

Thursday, February 7, 2013

• Progressive Reduction
• Ditching responsive design
• nzakas/computer-science-in-javascript

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

• Microsoft and Symantec Take Down Bamital Botnet That Hijacks Online Searches
• Interactive SVG using CSS and JavaScript
• Find Your Way to Oz
• CALIFORNIA REVENUE AND TAXATION CODE … Seriously, the center of the tech universe has a tax website that looks like it hasn’t changed since 1995?

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

• Stylus
• MaKey MaKey - An Invention Kit for Everyone
• Make a simple cloud in CSS3

Monday, February 4, 2013

• What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger by Frances Moore Lappé
• Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage
• Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
• Meet the New Stack, Same as the Old Stack

Sunday, February 3, 2013

• StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State

Saturday, February 2, 2013

• Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?
• Here be cables: An old-school map of undersea internet pipes

Friday, February 1, 2013

• What’s so great about JavaScript Promises?
• CodePen: Build, Explore, and Teach the Web, Instantly.
• stroll.js - CSS3 Scroll Effects

Thursday, January 31, 2013

• Invisible or Inspired?
• modern.IE: Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE | Microsoft
• Antonin Scalia: The Constitution is ‘dead’
• NASA: Asteroid to make record close pass of Earth
• How to Break Into a Mac (And Prevent It from Happening to You)

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

• Network Link Conditioner in Lion
• Slowy app | Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter
• Polyglot.js by airbnb
• spikebrehm/nested-view · GitHub
• Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server - Airbnb Engineering

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

• E-inkey Keyboard Concept by Maxim Mezentsev & Aleksander Suhih
• One line browser notepad

Monday, January 28, 2013

• Is Obama about to blow his climate credentials?
• White Power to the Rescue
• Nearly 60% of all iOS devices ever sold are running iOS 6
• Programmer Interrupted
• Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax
• Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
• The Serif Readability Myth

Sunday, January 27, 2013

• Stupid languages
• Gartner: Apple turns over inventory every five days
• Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins

Saturday, January 26, 2013

• The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

Friday, January 25, 2013

• Obama to the Left?
• Footprint Calculator
• Food: The growing problem
• Control the Complexity of Your JavaScript Functions with JSHint
• Apple - Supplier Responsibility
• Sharp Suits
• Let’s travel to Tibet with Keven Osborne | Tibet | Let’s Travel Somewhere
• Let’s Travel Somewhere
• /reFiddle+/
• Apple earnings report: Don’t let its stock slump fool you—the company is stronger than ever.
• Sick systems: How to keep someone with you forever
• Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 1 – Anti-patterns and their fixes
• Should You "Use Strict" in Your Production JavaScript?
• deanm/omggif

Thursday, January 24, 2013

• An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health | Coursera
• Gadling
• The Best Travel Stories on the Internet - Travel Writing - World Hum
• Customers - Happy Cog | Design in the browser with web fonts and real content
• Half a Million DVDs of Data Stored in Gram of DNA
• A punch-card pinup girl may be the world’s first computer art, and the first computer porn
• Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution
• The iPhone 5 forecast: a predictable 73 degrees and sunny
• Woz Says Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie Scene Never Happened
• Sugar glider
• inTacto’s 2012 greeting card!
• What it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
• UN to examine UK and US drone strikes

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

• First Apple Commercial 1977 by High Technology, Inc
• Snowbird Home
• Single Element Pure CSS3 Double Fold Ribbon
• Never say no to Panda!
• 15 Years of Apple’s Homepage
• Dawn of the Planet of the iPad-Wielding Apes
• Commenters, We Want You Back

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

• Git in Color
• &lt;iframe sandbox&gt;
• Web Developer’s Guide to Prerendering in Chrome
• The Next War?
• Obama inaugurates renewed energy on climate change
• President Obama, consider this your "Need-To-Do" List
• Powerful Words Call for Powerful Action
• Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers
• New York is now a better place to start your tech company than San Francisco

Monday, January 21, 2013

• What Would King Say of the Obama Era?
• MLK’s vehement condemnations of US militarism are more relevant than ever
• We Already Have a Way to Cut Gun Deaths
• The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
• Obama embraces progressive agenda in second inaugural address
• Former Microsoft executive says CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
• Analysis: Apple earnings need to overcome technical malaise
• Climate Change Given Prominence in Obama’s Address
• Obama II: Older, wiser, stronger

Saturday, January 19, 2013

• The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case
• Aaron Was a Criminal and So Are You
• Imo’s St Louis pizza recipe

Friday, January 18, 2013

• iOS app revenue analysis: paid apps on the decline
• The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design
• Pixar meets Marvel
• How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search
• O visa
• Fox News Hosts Lose It, Crack Up Over the Ridiculous Stuff They’re Supposed to Say About Obama
• Does Facebook Praise Kill Self-Control?
• Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself
• What If the World’s Soil Runs Out?
• We’re Energy Workers and We Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline
• Study Shows Impact of Keystone XL Pipeline More Disastrous Than Previously Thought
• "Oddly, under current law, Congress and the courts are involved when presidents eavesdrop on Americans, detain them or harshly interrogate them — but not when they kill them."
• Dear President Obama, please stop being so reasonable
• 5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action
• Newly Discovered ‘Plastic Island’ Shows Global Epidemic Worsening
• Sway of N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say
• Real Life Mario Kart - System Overview
• Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad
• See a Real-Life Mario Kart Race Complete With RFID Bananas, Power-Ups
• The Bad News: As Suspected, Rental Rates Have Increased Dramatically Over the Past Year
• San Francisco can become a world capital. First it needs to get over itself
• 25 Things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
• If carpenters were hired like programmers.
• Genetic privacy can be compromised online
• The DAM Show | Making the world safe for your photos » Blog Archive » Instagram Terms – Still Terrible

Thursday, January 17, 2013

• Browser Awareness Day
• BBC News - US employee ‘outsourced job to China’
• Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation
• The truth about structuring an HTML5 page
• Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity
• Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles
• Official Google Blog: Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web
• Earth-like alien planet found
• The harsh truth about HTML5′s structural semantics (part 3)
• The harsh truth about HTML5′s structural semantics (part 2)
• The harsh truth about HTML5′s structural semantics (part 1)
• Demo: CSS drop-shadows without images
• What No One Told You About Z-Index

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

• Messenger no.2 - in brown waxed canvas
• MailChimp Annual Report
• Obama to announce most expansive gun-control agenda in generations
• Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to reflect the realities of computing and networks in 2013. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

• The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
• A Novel Approach to Visualizing and Navigating Ontologies
• WhiteHouse/petitions · GitHub
• Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People | The White House
• I’m Rep Zoe Lofgren & I’m introducing "Aaron’s Law" to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
• Mobile Sign Up Forms Must Die
• The Truth About Semicolons in JavaScript
• How to tackle the climate, health and food crises, all at the same time
• Black carbon causes twice as much global warming than previously thought
• Rebranding the Killing Machine: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Selling Extra Judicial Killings

Monday, January 14, 2013

• The Myth of Human Progress
• America, the Violent: Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons Is Not Enough
• Prosecutor as bully
• Form Follows Function
• Check Out the iPotty, Premiered at CES 2013

Sunday, January 13, 2013

• The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz
• RIP, Aaron Swartz
• Unhinged "Load Your Damn Mags and Get Ready to Fight" Guy May Have Gone Just A Wee Bit Too Far
• Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index
• We’re Heading Into the Rapids All Wrong
• The Boy Who Cried Facebook Phone

Saturday, January 12, 2013

• "So Many People Died" The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014
• Social Issues Are Economic Issues, Exhibit 1,463: Michigan’s Dual Agenda Slams Low-Income Women
• How do I find out what shell I’m using?
• This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For

Friday, January 11, 2013

• Fun With jQuery Deferred
• Understanding JQuery.Deferred and Promise
• jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have
• Why Stealing a $1 Trillion Coin Isn’t Worth the Price of a Getaway Van
• Wikivoyage – Free travel information around the globe
• Wikipedia Takes On Travel Industry With Wikivoyage
• Canadian Tax Collectors Solve Mystery of Open Source Government
• Make tests read like a book
• Historical trends in the usage of JavaScript libraries, January 2013
• Why are Bob Woodward’s WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning?

Thursday, January 10, 2013

• Welcome To Congress. Now Start Calling Strangers To Ask For Money.
• Apple Still Casts a Long Shadow Over CES
• How (not) to trigger a layout in WebKit

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

• Barack Obama ‘seriously considering’ hosting climate summit
• President Obama: Start the Climate Conversation Now
• Hank Greenberg Should Be Shot into Space For Suing the Government over the AIG Bailout
• Will Chuck Hagel’s Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?
• Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
• Concern over RG3’s health shows how transcendent the rookie already is
• Tenterhook
• Wanted: Mars Colonists to Explore Red Planet. (There’s hope!)
• Airbrake: The error app.
• JS Joshing - JavaScript Musings
• 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone
• CSS `all` property
• An Open Letter to RG III
• Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview
• marcolago/flowtime.js
• Shadow DOM 101
• Scrolling Performance
• Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

• RG3 reportedly suffers torn LCL; surgeon says return for next season ‘not the norm’
• What’s in a name? The Redskins’ bad karma
• ACLU on Brennan appointment to CIA
• John Brennan’s extremism and dishonesty rewarded with CIA Director nomination
• Katrina vanden Heuvel: A climate change apocalypse
• California man says he can drive in carpool lane with corporation papers
• An Open Letter to Obama: Take Lead on Climate Change
• Obama Appoints Dr. Drone to Head CIA
• Secrets and Lies of the Bailout
• New director John Brennan must kill the CIA’s drone assassination policy
• ‘‘We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public," Liz Hanna, climate scientist
• Elizabeth Warren Response To AIG Suit
• 2012 Hottest Year On Record…By Far

Monday, January 7, 2013

• Working with files in JavaScript, Part 1: The Basics
• Pilot Plant in the Works for Carbon Dioxide Cleansing
• Carbon War Room
• Google’s Eric Schmidt arrives in North Korea. This is the “internet” he’ll find there
• Pro-Israel Lobby, AIPAC, Sitting Out Hagel Fight
• Disney’s Creepy New Surveillance Tool
• Be Ready To Mint That Coin
• Tandent
• Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin!
• At Least 17 Billion Earth-Size Alien Planets Inhabit Milky Way
• White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings

Sunday, January 6, 2013

• NRA’s Vision: A Nation Packing Heat
• Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
• Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama’s pick for US treasury secretary
• Take Back YWCA Vermont
• Unprecedented world carbon emissions cuts needed by 2050
• Time Is Not on Our Side
• Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
• Will Shell’s Rig Grounding Thwart Its Arctic Oil Plans? (let’s hope so!)
• 9 Stories That Will Change Your World in 2013
• In 2013, Our Fight Against GMO Food Continues
• Dear Bill Kristol: More People Than You Thought Are Vulgar, Disgusting and Far-Left
• Chuck Hagel and liberals: what are the priorities?
• What the Attacks on Hagel Tell Us

Friday, January 4, 2013

• I Do Not Support the Troops
• The Case Against Kerry
• Conquering the fear of the stupid question
• How To Make Big Decisions Quickly
• CreativeApplications.Net | Apps That Inspire…
• Regexper

Thursday, January 3, 2013

• CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now
• Answer to "What does it mean when a girl smiles at you every time she sees you?"
• Is David Lynch secretly bringing back Twin Peaks?
• Changeset 138632 – WebKit
• Bernie Sanders, the man I wrote in for POTUSA, was selected by The Nation as 2012’s "Most Valuable Progressive"
• First ‘Alien Earth’ Will Be Found in 2013
• JSCover - JavaScript code coverage
• High-Performance, Garbage-Collector-Friendly Code
• "I would like to look at the recent stuff coming out of Apple with the same optimism as James Hague." ~Daniel Lyons
• My Take on Unit Testing Private Methods
• How to unit test private methods in BDD / TDD?
• Writing Testable JavaScript
• IE VPC Images Now with WGA (cue sad trombone)
• The Unarchiver
• How To Run IE on Your Mac with Virtualbox

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

• afterscriptexecute Event
• Philips Hue Connected Bulb - Starter Pack
• Don’t forget about Lynch
• Who paid for the Log Cabin Republicans’ anti-Hagel NYT ad?
• Sanity in a culture of mass murder

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

• Rethinkin’ Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation
• Reality’s Revenge: Will 2013 Be the Year Climate Change Deniers Get Hoisted on Their Own Petard?
• Compare the 1912 Elections with the 2012 Elections
• Perspective on the Deal
• How To Deal With Vendor Prefixes
• Hey Extraverts: Enough is Enough

Monday, December 31, 2012

• Ten of My Favorite Things about 2012
• Obama Quietly Signs Abusive Spy Bill He Once Vowed to Eliminate
• Shell Oil Rig Adrift in Alaskan Arctic
• Putting it in drive: What’s next for Idle No More
• Story of the Year: It’s Global Warming, Stupid
• Silencers: The NRA’s latest big lie
• F.A.A. Rules Make Electronic Devices on Planes Hazardous

Sunday, December 30, 2012

• Wounded Knee 122 Years Later
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
• Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years, Rejects All Privacy Amendments

Saturday, December 29, 2012

• Thanks, Mom, for Not Telling the World I Pulled a Knife on You

Thursday, December 27, 2012

• Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

• YouTube Sensation Earns NFL Tryout
• There Is No Santa Claus and Bill Clinton Was Not an Economic Savior
• This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 - And Beyond

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

• The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
• NRA and gun violence: The National Rifle Association has been successful as an interest group because there are no single issue voters challenging it.
• Smartphones, tablets make us think about technology like the Amish do.
• When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it

Monday, December 24, 2012

• The Nenets of Siberia ensure the annual reindeer migration
• Dive into Flexbox
• Sandy Hook: compassion, not anger, is the best response to the Newtown massacre
• Chris Hedges: The Final Battle
• Idle No More: Women rising to lead when it’s needed most
• A Holiday Letter from John Boehner
• Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success
• Page Weight Matters
• As Chief Spence starves, Canadians awaken from idleness and remember their roots

Sunday, December 23, 2012

• Gun lobby defends call for armed guards at schools against "withering criticism"
• dcovery
• Zero Dark Thirty’s Wrong and Dangerous Conclusion

Saturday, December 22, 2012

• Going Down Biting
• Bosses Can Fire Hot Workers For Being ‘Irresistible’: All-Male Court. Ridiculous.
• The NRA’s insane idea about more guns in schools
• Five myths about gun control
• WebKit Image Wipes
• Where debt came from.
• The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder
• Do Armed Civilians Stop Mass Shooters? Actually, No.
• NRA Blames Violent Video Games for Newtown, But Partnered With Company That Makes Them

Friday, December 21, 2012

• Hipsters On Food Stamps, Part 2
• Hipsters On Food Stamps, Part 1
• Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
• Fun with CSS3 orientation media queries
• PICTURE TO ASCII CONVERT - PICASCII
• The Christmas Experiments - Affectionate Snowman
• The JavaScript arguments object…and beyond

Thursday, December 20, 2012

• 8 Deficit Reducers That Are More Ethical—And More Effective—Than the ‘Chained CPI’
• When I first heard the name “Safari”
• Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!): Asynchronous Programming Patterns in JavaScript
• Nice explanation of JavaScript promises in the README
• I’m logged in to all the things!!
• 7.3 Timers — HTML Standard
• Beware of Half Pixels in CSS
• 9 People to Remove From Your Inner Circle
• What Would You Tell the 25 Year-Old You?
• Viral photos 2012: most shared images of the year
• Mobile Orchestra
• Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left
• A Tale of Animation Performance
• Squeezing Boobs Can Stop Breast Cancer (woo hoo!)
• British Problems
• The Rolling Jubilee Mails its First Debt Forgiveness Letters

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

• Kindle Fire HD: Much Better Than Original Kindle Fire
• Fiscal Cliff: Let’s Call Their Bluff
• Death to all guns
• Gun Lobby Speaks: We Need More Guns, Especially in Schools
• Former NFL QB Jon Kitna finds ‘gold mine’ at his troubled old high school
• 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time - SI.com
• Performance Calendar » 2012
• Israeli settlements leave U.S. odd man out at U.N. Security Council
• How do we read code?
• End of World Means Most Amazing Home Page Ever, Says Google
• H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows
• Portfolio: Nick Allen
• 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
• Brython

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

• Apple Now Tracking Working Hours for Over One Million Supply Chain Employees
• This Is Not America’s Deal
• Let Them Eat Bullets: The Corporate Gun Tyrants
• The Soft-Core Terrorism of Florida’s Gun Worship
• The Only Antidote to More Newtowns
• What if Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived–and Died?
• Newtown residents say "enough is enough" after tragedy
• Even without Congress, Obama could act to restrict guns
• CSS Animations with only one keyframe
• How JavaScript Timers Work (kind of and without the level of detail I was interested in when I Googled the topic)
• "[W]e respect that your photos are your photos. Period." Instagram
• Why Freak Out About Instagram Privacy?
• Coal to challenge oil’s dominance by 2017, says IEA. Awesome, says I.
• List of Apple codenames
• HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to Interoperability Testing and Performance
• Fred Phelps’ son condemns Westboro’s plan to picket Newtown funerals
• Westboro Baptist Church to picket Sandy Hook funerals: 4 ways to respond
• Moving beyond window.onload()
• Remix Support - Rootstrikers
• Stop Whining About Your Personal Data on Instagram You Little Whiny Baby (wherein doucherocket, Sam Biddle, totally misses the point and insults casual photographers everywhere)
• Westboro Baptist Meets Its Match: Thousands Sign Retaliatory Petitions

Monday, December 17, 2012

• I don’t want to talk about gun control
• How ALEC Thwarts Honest Debate About Gun Violence
• Professional Disc Golf Association Disc Golf Course Directory
• Something is Wrong With My iPad: I Still Hate My Life.
• NRA member Sen. Manchin says Newtown shooting should open assault weapons debate
• "Take That Nigger Off The TV, We Wanna Watch Football!": Idiots Respond To NBC Pre-Empting Sunday Night Football
• Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress.
• DOJ Lawyers: Drone Targets Receive ‘Due Process’ But We Won’t Say How
• The Anarchist Soccer Mom: Thinking the Unthinkable

Sunday, December 16, 2012

• Massacre Muzzles Pro-Gun Lawmakers

Saturday, December 15, 2012

• Newtown shootings: if not now, when is the time to talk about gun control?
• Why We Let the School Shootings Continue
• The 2nd Amendment does condone random slaughter
• Mental Health Reform as Important as Gun Reform
• The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Has the Blood of Connecticut Students On His Hands
• ‘None Dead’ in China: Sensible Laws vs. Maniacal Attacks
• Hilary Clinton and Obama’s Dismal Record on the Environment
• Some Better Targets for the People Who Hate Government
• When terrorists attacked, we gutted the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments. When gunmen attack, the 2nd remains inviolable.
• Police Kill Gunman Who Wounded 3 at Ala. Hospital (The copycats have begun….)
• American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On
• Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
• What science says about gun control and violent crime: Statistics don’t convince people. People convince people.
• The Gospel of Wealth Fails the Inequity Test in Primates

Friday, December 14, 2012

• Science doubters say world is warming
• Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!
• Ghostery
• CodeKit — THE Mac App For Web Developers
• Lorem Ipsum - All the facts
• The Media is an Accomplice in Public Shootings: A Call for a "Stephen King" Law
• To Get a Commitment, Make a Commitment
• Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense in the Next Decade?
• The revealingly substance-free fight over Susan Rice
• The Web We Lost
• UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package

Thursday, December 13, 2012

• The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
• US court rules Apple’s iPhone infringes on three patents held by Sony and Nokia owned MobileMedia
• These Ideas Will Have You Rethinking Your Tactics in the War for Talent
• Google Maps App for iPhone Goes in the Right Direction
• "Google Maps for iOS is the best-designed maps app on any platform"
• MAILBOX
• Do we need box-shadow or border-radius prefixes anymore?
• Why We Torture
• Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Isn’t Harmless
• The ARPANET Dialogues » Blog Archive » Vol. IV
• Fragmented world: what two years of traffic data teaches you about mobile

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

• Existing Loan Payoff Calculator
• Google Maps for iOS Now Live in App Store
• Lost on Apple Maps? Samsung has an app for that
• Asynchronous Control Flow with Promises
• Callbacks considered a smell
• Virtual Water - Discover how much WATER we EAT everyday
• The Skinny on IE’s Update Policy
• Mozilla Plans H.264 Video for Desktop Firefox
• I wrote a response to Jack Stuef’s BuzzFeed article about me - The Oatmeal
• In ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ she’s the hero; in real life, CIA agent’s career is more complicated
• Retina revolution
• HTML5 video for retina displays

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

• Cow juice producers to smear soy and almond milk as "imitation milk"
• First Dave Brubeck, now Ravi Shankar. Music lost 2 legends this week. R.I.P.
• Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards
• How to use the CSS3 transition property
• Two Things about Conditionals in JavaScript
• Instagram Turns Evil, And It’s All Our Fault
• 4 Ways to Leap the “Fiscal Cliff” to a Better U.S.A.

Monday, December 10, 2012

• This Time, Trust Anonymous WMD Claims–They’ve Got ‘Specific Intelligence’
• The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it

Sunday, December 9, 2012

• Why the Supreme Court Will Affirm Same-Sex Marriage
• Study: Fox News Viewers Have an IQ 20 Points Below US Average

Saturday, December 8, 2012

• We’re Not Broke
• For Pete’s Sake, What’s Happened to Our Democracy?
• Spontaneity or Robopathy?
• A Letter To Chevron’s CEO: Your Business Is Creating A Climate ‘Incompatible With An Organized Global Community’
• Amy Goodman: A Carbon Tsunami in Doha
• Having ‘Skin in the Game’
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Maori stones hold magnetic clues
• The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds

Friday, December 7, 2012

• UP by Jawbone | Know yourself. Live better.
• What Color Means to Blind People
• Huddle/PhantomCSS
• JavaScript Performance Analysis: Sampling, Tracing, and Timing don’t code today what you can’t debug tomorrow
• Grunt.js Workflow
• Callbacks considered a smell
• Arrays in JavaScript
• Randomizing Javascript Arrays
• Code smells in CSS
• Running scripts in WebKit
• &lt;script&gt; - HTML | MDN
• WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test

Thursday, December 6, 2012

• Swashbuckling with swashes & other ligatures
• HTML and CSS Advent 2012 by Digitpaint
• Improving web performance with Apache and .htaccess
• Knight Rider, Focal Point Demo
• BBC News - Dave Brubeck: Take Five jazz pianist dies
• "The dude abides and says ‘take it inside!’" … Smokers celebrate as Wash. legalizes marijuana
• Apple to Invest in Manufacturing Macs in U.S., Cook Says

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

• Hyphenation works!
• The ultimate “target retina screens” media query
• Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench
• Adam Brault echoes many of my own sentiments in this piece about taking an "introvertcation" from Twitter
• Latency in Mobile Networks – The Missing Link

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

• Jolla’s Sailfish Rises From MeeGo’s Ashes As Company Signs First Carrier Deal With DNA
• MX2…Games pleasing to your feeling
• Being Prepared To Contribute
• Murder Suspect John McAfee: I’m Innocent

Monday, December 3, 2012

• CodeMirror
• What They Didn’t Tell You About ES5′s Array Extras
• Dumb Ways To Die
• The Pope’s tweets are infelatio! Stupid autocorrect….
• Here comes the first real alternative to iPhone and Android

Sunday, December 2, 2012

• 9 uses for cURL worth knowing
• My favorite regex of all time: [ -~]
• How JavaScript promises work.
• Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat
• For United States and China, Mutually Assured Inaction at UN Climate Summit
• Carbon credits row could derail UN climate talks, says Brazil
• Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds a second
• Apple Gains On Samsung In U.S. Mobile Phone Market Share, Lands Second Overall For The First Time
• The real joy of the Powerball Facebook fake

Saturday, December 1, 2012

• Prop 37: Your right to know.
• Organic: Food Justice for the 99%
• this is the Hand Drawn Map Association
• Hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder.
• Typing replaces handwriting: Philip Hensher’s The Missing Ink, reviewed.
• Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America
• Merican Made
• Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook
• Barack Obama Is Turning The Oval Office Into A Man Cave
• That’s So Random: The Evolution Of An Odd Word
• ‘Tipping Point’: Obama Lawyer Talks About Ending ‘Endless’ US War

Friday, November 30, 2012

• The UN vote to recognise Palestine legitimises a racist status quo
• Class Wars of 2012
• Reining in Obama and His Drones
• Climate Experts To World: Act Boldly Now, or Pay Severely Later
• This Bike Is Cardboard. Also Entirely Recycled, Water and Fireproof, and Dirt Cheap.
• Running May Be Harmful to Your Heart
• Should You Use Inline-Blocks As A Substitute For Floats?
• Sixth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards - #bbd12
• Toque o’ the Morning
• In Defense of Descendant Selectors and ID Elements – Jeffrey Zeldman
• Self-Filling Water Bottle Mimics Desert Beetle’s Wings
• Breakpoint Actions in JavaScript
• Computer science in JavaScript: Quicksort
• Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality
• Worse Than the Problem: Clean-up Makes 2010 Spill 52x More Toxic
• Foldify
• Build with Chrome
• Fracking Our Food Supply
• Climate change is happening now – a carbon price must follow
• A Grim Warning from Science
• 5 reasons I’m opting out of the TSA’s scanners (and you should, too)
• The TSA as we know it is dead - here’s why
• An Open Letter to Non-Natives in Headdresses

Thursday, November 29, 2012

• Hex-to-CMYK Color Converter
• The Pac-Man Moon: Mimas Goes Wocka-Wocka-Wocka
• Mercury Home to Ice, Messenger Spacecraft Findings Suggest
• Making 100,000 Stars
• Beercamp 2012
• Digital Creativity Guidebook

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

• Microsoft Surface vs. the iPad gen 4: The HTML5 Scorecard
• IE10 CSS Hacks
• A 170-Foot Trampoline Installed in a Russian Forest
• One div - The single element HTML/CSS icon database
• Red meat consumption doubles risk of colon cancer, says study; is it time to go vegetarian yet?
• GM is bringing Apple iPhone’s ‘Siri’ to the car
• Respond to change with Object.observe
• How Does Watch.js Work?
• House GOP Committee Chairs Will All Be White Men In Next Congress

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• Marketing & Mobile + Web Development Agency | Red Leaf Interactive
• SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS to Snow Leopard
• The Official SheepShaver Home Page
• Power Mac G4 Mac OS ROM 1.8.1: Document and Software
• Apple fires manager of Maps team
• Golden Earring
• DIY HTML-Driven Photobooth
• What is the Execution Context & Stack in JavaScript?
• Hyphenation works!
• Constructors considered mildly confusing
• How to Annoy a Millennial
• Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.

Monday, November 26, 2012

• Stand Still for the Apocalypse
• Time is running out: the Doha climate talks must put an end to excuses
• To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead by Sarah van Gelder
• Florida GOP Admission: Voter Fraud ‘Just a Marketing Ploy’
• JS101: __proto__
• Monty Hall Problem
• Javascript Promises
• Act Like a New Employee Every Day
• Efficiently Rendering CSS
• Learning from Twitter
• Using requestAnimationFrame to Optimize Dragging Events
• requestAnimationFrame API: now with sub-millisecond precision
• Let’s make the web Jank-free!
• Montage - HTML5 framework
• jeffwatkins/coherent
• Gianduia (software framework)
• Fiscal cliff: Will they jump?
• BBC News - Minecraft to aid UN regeneration projects

Sunday, November 25, 2012

• Surging Seas: Sea level rise analysis by Climate Central
• What Could Disappear
• Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines
• Fearing Loss to Romney, Obama Officials Pushed to Codify Rules for ‘Kill List’
• hpHosts Online
• Leaner, Meaner, Faster Animations with requestAnimationFrame
• Greenhouse gas volumes reached new high in 2011: survey
• Gaming Made Me: Fallout 2

Saturday, November 24, 2012

• Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mitt
• Can’t find a job? Move overseas.
• Netflix Is Bluffing And It Will Be Their Downfall
• US Leadership, Global Solidarity Keys to Averting Climate Disaster: Experts
• Iran accuses U.S. Navy of ‘illegal and provocative acts’
• Karl Rove: "Ohio is mine, I tell you, all mine!"
• A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
• Instant Rimshot using HTML5 and CSS3
• Getting serious about SVG
• Native CSS feature detection via the @supports rule
• 5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed
• Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
• Beards of Silicon Valley: A Field Guide to Tech Facial Hair
• Prosecution of Anonymous activists highlights war for Internet control

Friday, November 23, 2012

• Apple Has Decided We Can’t Track Killer Drones With Our iPhones
• An American Moral Crisis: Gizmodo Talks Drones with Dennis Kucinich
• Behold, Some of the First Apple Computer Photos Ever
• Father Daughter Cherpumple
• Three climate contrarians vie to lead House Science Committee
• South Pacific Sandy Island ‘proven not to exist’
• How to create a private npm.js repository

Thursday, November 22, 2012

• In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

• Geeks and privilege
• The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance
• Airport Security Is Killing Us
• NPR.org &raquo; Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
• Cherpumple | Charles Phoenix
• Hauntingly Beautiful, Wildly Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
• Apple and Twitter
• The Onion’s Guide To Hosting A Perfect Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

• Difference Between Berry and Fruit
• How to Detect DOM Changes in CSS
• Create Quality Print Versions of Web Pages With CSS3 Filters
• Stop Using Constructor Functions in JavaScript
• Oprah Tweets Her Love For Microsoft Surface Using An iPad
• Influential GOP group releases, pulls shockingly sensible copyright memo
• Q: "How much does an app cost?" A: "About as much as a car."
• BBC News - Greenhouse gases hit record high

Monday, November 19, 2012

• Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
• Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users
• Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged
• NY Times Columnist: Death To "Hipsters" (And Irony)
• House Republicans: Copyright Law Destroys Markets; It’s Time For Real Reform
• hostess and britruby

Sunday, November 18, 2012

• Einstein’s Brain Holds Secrets Of His Extreme Intelligence
• They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
• Twitter is pivoting
• &raquo; Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay

Saturday, November 17, 2012

• Skateistan, or Making Taliban Heads Explode
• Damn right, George Bush should face criminal proceedings for waterboarding
• Obama administration must account to Congress for targeted assassinations
• With Election Won, Climate Campaigners Fear Obama Reversal on Keystone
• When the Nerds Go Marching In
• What happens when a Twitter client hits the token limit

Friday, November 16, 2012

• Rapiscan accused of faking privacy tests for airport scanners
• To Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets
• Keyboard Buddy iPhone 4 Case - The best of both worlds. An ultra slim, slide out, bluetooth, backlit keyboard for the iPhone 4.
• Jank Busting for Better Rendering Performance
• In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
• JavaScript Machines: IBM PC Model 5150
• I am Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project – AMA : IAmA

Thursday, November 15, 2012

• Monday Night | Issue 11 (2012)
• Rolling Jubilee
• You Can’t Say That!
• Republicans After "Gifts" Comment: Get Off The Stage, Mitt
• Obama’s kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza
• Is BP Getting Away with Murder?
• Air Force Blog Assessment
• License - APSL
• Apple - Antenna Design and Test Labs
• Reeder for Mac
• How Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
• Fracking Chemical Database - SkyTruth Drilling Alerts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

• 350.org
• According to Apple, New iPad Is as Thin as a Pencil Lead
• 100,000 Stars
• Case-study: JAM with Chrome - How we made the audio rock
• The Fight to Save the Planet from the Fossil Fuel Industry Heats Up with Divestment Campaign
• U.S. right up there with China and Russia as worst offenders against personal privacy
• FBI’s abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
• Obama needs to face climate change, reject Keystone pipeline
• What Percent of Food Comes from California?
• Alabama idiot, er…secessionist says working people must unite to save America
• Wannabe Secessionists, Please Go For It
• Wall Street Uses the Third Way to Lead its Assault on Social Security
• The Trojan Horse in the Debt Debate
• Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 - Apple Store (U.S.)
• Squier by Fender® USB Stratocaster Guitar - Apple Store (U.S.)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

• General svn usage guidlines.
• Rekapi - A keyframe animation library for JavaScript
• Stylie. A graphical CSS animation tool.
• Walk or Bus?
• Room 389 Oakland, CA - Cocktail Lounge and Café
• order olloclip iPhone macro lens, wide angle lens, fisheye lens, lens attachment
• The Responsinator
• 26 New & Awesome Resources For Designers & Developers
• Let the post-Sandy election gloating continue!
• The Sins Of General David Petraeus
• JAM with Chrome
• Digital Bits – Everyday objects recreated in HTML and CSS
• Javascript Territory - Jster Javascript Catalog

Monday, November 12, 2012

• Why Occupy’s plan to cancel consumer debts is money well spent
• Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy up Debt to Abolish It
• How to Get Yourself to the Edge of the Fiscal Abyss and Not Jump
• Let’s Not Make a Deal
• The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie
• Vt. US Sen. Sanders against Social Security cuts
• Bailout "Of the People, By the People" Exposes Bankers’ Greed
• Revert to a Previous Version in Subversion
• How to Interview a Designer
• Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
• HTTP persistent connection
• BACS: A Collaborative Facebook Poem
• How To: SSH Aliases
• Sorry, Republicans, a Latino George Bush won’t cut it
• Obama’s Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin’
• Liberal schadenfreude: Obama’s win brings out too mean gloating on social media.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

• A Short Lesson in Perspective
• Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown

Saturday, November 10, 2012

• Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
• The People’s Bailout
• Washington State suspends star receiver Marquess Wilson
• Washington State star Marquess Wilson says he has quit team, citing abuse from coaches
• Minify Javascript Online / Online JavaScript Packer
• Beach Blanket Babylon: America’s Longest Running Musical Revue
• Did Big Money really lose this election? Hardly.
• Using FormData Objects
• Behind Petraeus’s Resignation
• Spacewar! - Original 1962 code on PDP-1 emulator
• Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election

Friday, November 9, 2012

• Old People Versus Babies, In One Graph
• GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner’s tutorial
• green chile kitchen : chile pies
• Face detection for cats
• Red Bull Flugtag. Where self-taught pilots meet homemade flying machines.
• Apple’s icon garden in QTVR
• Fear the Grizzly — Film Productions
• CSS px is an Angular Measurement
• Why Ems?
• Sea Level Rise Accelerating For US East Coast
• Math hurts.
• Teaching Programming To A Highly Motivated Beginner
• Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

Thursday, November 8, 2012

• Challenging the ‘disposition matrix’ and its ever-expanding kill list
• Obama and progressives: what will liberals do with their big election victory?
• Did Monsanto Trick California Voters?
• Time for Higher Education to Take a Stand on Climate
• Five things to Watch for in Obama’s Second Term
• Voters Didn’t Ask for Bi-Partisanship, They Demanded Good Policies
• Climate change, not the national debt, is the legacy we should care about
• CNN claims Iran shot at a US drone, revealing the news networks’ mindset
• Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership Because Ads Are “One Of The Reasons Digg Failed”
• Filling Gaps in Medical Aid for People Affected by Hurricane Sandy | Doctors Without Borders
• developer.press | Your brand new one-stop-digital-bookshop!
• CasperJS, a navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS
• Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js
• A-personal-VPN-won’t-save-you-from-the internet
• Obama spent part of Election Day playing hoops with Scottie Pippen

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

• Animation: A New Mobile UX Design Material
• The Waller Creek Conservancy Design Competition Final Four
• Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed
• There’s ALWAYS room for innovation
• Romney’s concession speech was not gracious

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

• We the People, and the New American Civil War
• Presidential Election Map 2012
• Woman who drove past school bus must wear ‘idiot’ sign, judge rules
• The Magic Charger, Batteries for Magic Mouse, Inductive Charging Technology, Mouse Battery Replacement, Apple Wireless Mouse, Mobee Magic Charger, Mouse Install

Monday, November 5, 2012

• “Where’s the eucalyptus at?”
• On being a senior engineer
• British have invaded 90% of the world’s countries

Sunday, November 4, 2012

• Romney Fans Yell "USA!" Really Loud In the Apparent Belief They Can Thus Make Climate Change Go Away
• If Sandy doesn’t destroy Obama’s climate cowardice, what will?
• Prop 37 and Corporate Lies in the Post Truth Era
• America’s Dismal Choice
• U.S. Elections and Foreign Observers
• Broken US System Needs Watching: International Election Observers Could Face Arrest
• The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang
• The Urge to Bomb Iran
• The 10 guiding principles of Romneyism
• Pacific Pinball
• City Museum of St Louis
• 7 Things to Tell Your Friends About GMOs
• ERROR: Whitelist Rejection in PhoneGap
• PhoneGap Gotcha : ERROR whitelist rejection
• "More Mitt" — A Bad Lip Reading Soundbite
• Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

Saturday, November 3, 2012

• Say Farewell: Apple’s Skeumorphism Hall of Shame
• For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased
• The Cove Movie
• Escape from Callback Hell
• Nexus 10 Reviews Hit the Web as Fourth-Generation iPad Sales Begin
• It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote
• Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Sandy? Yep.
• Northern Cities Vowel Shift: How Americans in the Great Lakes region are revolutionizing English.

Friday, November 2, 2012

• Kickstarter – Meet the team

Thursday, November 1, 2012

• An Unexpected Briefing #airnzhobbit
• Embracing and Communicating Uncertainty
• UAW Files Charges Against Romney on His Auto Bail-out Profiteering
• Liberty to Lie
• Hey Google, Your Nexus 7 Marketing Images Look Like Crap
• Michael Bloomberg Endorses Obama: ‘He Can Fulfill Hope Inspired 4 Years Ago’
• A simple explanation of “new” in Javascript.
• We Need Apple And Google To Work Together Again
• Cubicles versus offices
• Getting over ourselves

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

• Yes, Romney’s a Liar, but This Is Getting Ridiculous
• Romney Campaign Staged Donations At Storm Relief Event
• Why Dubai? Five Reasons to Love This City
• CSS FilterLab
• Apple Shake-Up Signals Tim Cook Era
• Harold Arlen
• Online JavaScript beautifier
• Catalyst
• So, You Want to be a Front-End Engineer
• The Horrible Future of Social

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

• Senior VP of iOS Scott Forstall is out at Apple: why, and what it means.
• Forstall Out; Ive Up
• Yes, Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy
• Can climate change gatecrash the race for the White House?
• Name storms after oil companies — they’re the ones most responsible for climate change
• Sorting the Real Sandy Photos From the Fakes
• Wind Map
• From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout
• Regime Change
• The Family Vision Center
• Epic Russian
• How Apple’s iPhone 5 website works
• The interesting javascript window object
• Last week in WebKit: Resolution media queries and timeouts for XHR
• Object Hierarchy and Inheritance in JavaScript
• Microsoft Surface Music "Giveaway"

Monday, October 29, 2012

• Early Mixins, Late Mixins
• Cupertino : Apple Campus 2
• Movement in interaction design
• No On 32: Stop Special Exemptions
• Proposition 32 | Official Voter Information Guide

Sunday, October 28, 2012

• Just Label It: Let the People Decide
• You Can Vote, but Can You Vote for Democracy?
• LYFE Kitchen | Love Your Food Everyday
• Weather Forces Romney to Shift Lying to Other States
• Telling Truths about Israel/Palestine
• And now, a word from Mr. Mourdock’s god
• US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates
• Q: Has Global Warming Caused A Quantum Jump In Extreme Weather? A: Mother Nature is just getting warmed up!
• Did Climate Change Help Create ‘Frankenstorm’?
• Underwater Dogs
• Why I’m Returning My Microsoft Surface RT

Saturday, October 27, 2012

• Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias
• "The best solution to the problem of people trying to attack our troops in other people’s countries is to get our troops out of other people’s countries where people are likely to attack them."
• Suppression Surges as Election Nears
• It Might Save Obama This Year, but the Electoral College Must Go!
• Candidates flee East Coast as Frankenstorm takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change
• Ronald McDonald violates restraining order after entering McDonald’s restaurant

Friday, October 26, 2012

• emergency compliment : A steady supply of Emergency Compliments to be used at times of great insecurity.
• Chop – Post code, write notes and share feedback
• UN to investigate civilian deaths from US drone strikes
• On Being A Senior Engineer
• Here’s Some Working Code to Sort One Million 8-Digit Numbers in 1MB of RAM
• Travis Shrugged: The creepy, dangerous ideology behind Silicon Valley’s Cult of Disruption

Thursday, October 25, 2012

• What Font is
• The pros and cons of living with your significant other - The Oatmeal
• How to suck at your religion - The Oatmeal
• Shadow DOM
• A Simple Parallax Scrolling Technique
• The Future of Markdown
• IE10 Snap Mode and Responsive Design
• Chris Cooley, on the road back to work
• Apartheid Without Shame or Guilt: We’re Racists, So Nu?
• Two [Straight] Women Kiss In Front Of Anti-Gay Protests In Marseille, France
• The Marseille Kiss…
• God Distances Self From Christian Right | The Onion
• Richard Mourdock’s Rape Comment - The Colbert Report
• Drone of silence: the national-security policy that Obama and Romney won’t debate
• James Bond: Cars, catchphrases and kisses
• CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3
• Worship me, for I am Apple.
• Objectivity Does Not Mean Neutrality: The Danger of False Equivalency in the Media
• An Open Letter to Ann Coulter | The World of Special Olympics
• Handcuffing Democracy: Jill Stein Sues Presidential Debate Commission
• Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
• As election nears, efforts intensify to misinform, pressure voters
• FACEBOOK: I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

• Who Are You Really Voting For?
• Self-updating scripts
• Ajax with images
• Sizing with CSS3’s vw and vh units
• Base What? A Practical Introduction to Base Encoding
• Why Tim Cook’s Apple is a better company than the one Steve Jobs left behind.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

• Value Bubbles for Range Inputs
• To accept or to decline: mapping life’s little dilemmas using IBIS
• Moral Algebra: Franklin’s Letter to Priestly
• Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From TheVille And Bingo Teams In Its Austin Office
• 10 Weird and Mysterious Places on Earth
• "Computer ‘web’ to change billions of lives (yeah right)
• Friction stir welding
• If housepets were Libertarians.
• Apple has ‘iPad Mini Smart Covers’ ready to go for the…iPad Mini
• Apple Special Event October 2012
• ‘iPad Mini’ Media Event Also Streaming via Apple’s Website
• Apple TV owners will get a live stream of Apple Event
• Apple Confirms it Will Stream ‘iPad Mini’ Event Via Apple TV

Monday, October 22, 2012

• Sam Amidon
• Now you can Ace that Interview Like a Samurai and Land Your Dream Job
• California Theatre
• August was the 330th consecutive month in which temperatures worldwide topped the 20th-century average."
• CSS 3D Dropdown Concept
• John Ludlow is a bully.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

• Chris Hedges: McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul - Chris Hedges’ Columns

Saturday, October 20, 2012

• Does JavaScript need classes?

Friday, October 19, 2012

• On War and Peace, George McGovern Will Die Vindicated

Thursday, October 18, 2012

• Binders Full of Women, and Two Women Bound
• Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama
• Do the Math - Because We > Fossil Fuels.
• The Boom - Coloud Headphones
• PFold: Paper-Like Unfolding Effect
• 3D Thumbnail Hover Effects
• We Work at Vend

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

• Noam Chomsky, "The Most Dangerous Moment," 50 Years Later
• Likely meteor seen, heard in Bay Area
• MoMA | Century of the Child
• Apple Acquires HTML5 Web Firm Particle

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

• iPhone 5 in WebGL
• For all the details on Mitt Romney’s 5 trillion dollar tax plan visit ROMNEYTAXPLAN.COM
• FORMULOR*
• Textbook Publisher Pearson Takes Down 1.5 Million Teacher And Student Blogs With A Single DMCA Notice
• Silicon Valley Pioneer Brett Bullington Is In Intensive Care After Biking Accident

Monday, October 15, 2012

• Strong words from 2006 Me. Pretty funny!
• Charity president unhappy about Paul Ryan soup kitchen ‘photo op’
• Ryan Fake-Washes Pan at Empty Soup Kitchen and Fake-Talks to the Poors to Show He Cares and Get His Picture Taken to Prove It
• Google Maps for iOS in Alpha Testing, Partial Screenshots and Details
• Data URI Encoder
• Watch Saturday Night Live: Tech Talk: iPhone 5
• MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!
• The iPhone is a miracle. - By Farhad Manjoo
• The iPhone is boring. - By Farhad Manjoo
• The Macalope Weekly: It’s a living
• Proposed Browser Support for Retina-Ready Images
• Apple doesn’t care how much HTML Facebook uses in its app
• Safari 6 and Chrome 21 add image-set to support retina images
• Chrome Browser Now Supports Apple’s Retina Display
• Apple’s Brilliant Boondoggle: MacBook Pro Retina Display

Sunday, October 14, 2012

• Ceilings and Floors
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | New Zealand Post Coins

Friday, October 12, 2012

• USADA report reveals Lance Armstrong as the greatest fraud in American sports
• Apple agrees on licensing terms for use of iconic Swiss clock design
• Harmony of Dreams Come True
• Performance Tips for JavaScript in V8

Thursday, October 11, 2012

• Firefox 3D John Hancock Center
• Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
• Firefox 16 crashes and burns

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• Go for the Jugular
• Why America needs White History Month
• JavaScript Made Everyone Crazy
• It Lives! | Charles Phoenix
• Groups: New England Tar Sands Pipeline Plotted ‘Behind Closed Doors’
• Null and typeof
• SassMe | A Tool for Visualizing SASS Color Functions
• The State of JavaScript
• Contre Jour - Behind The Scenes

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

• How to Make Slicing Suck Less: Tips and Tricks for Slicing a PSD
• [Early Pioneer Life]
• Woodwork
• Speeding up Firefox CSS3 transform transitions with rotate(0.01deg)
• box-shadow vs filter: drop-shadow

Monday, October 8, 2012

• Fraud Found!!!
• The US presidential debates’ illusion of political choice
• Learnable Programming
• Make a Cherpumple
• WebPlatform.org — Your Web, documented
• 5 minute DIY videos
• One Small Tweet

Friday, October 5, 2012

• The Taploid | Gossip about your friends!
• The script element
• Mona Lisa with pure CSS
• Pedalboard.js: A JavaScript Guitar Effect Framework using the Web Audio API
• PBS Statement Regarding October 3 Presidential Debate
• Quantum measurements leave Schrödinger’s cat alive
• Thoughts on TypeScript
• The Dart Team Welcomes TypeScript

Thursday, October 4, 2012

• Words per minute - typing speed
• Bret Victor, beast of burden
• iOS Fonts
• Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (Maybe)

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

• Milwaukee Police News
• JavaScript. The core.
• ECMA-262 » ECMA-262-3 in detail. Chapter 7.2. OOP: ECMAScript implementation.
• Conspiracy | A groundbreaking shoe
• Hex Color Picker
• Who’s Paying for the President
• Rich Kids Of Instagram

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

• How to Be Happier at Work: 10 Tips
• Happy Birthday, NASA! Here’s What Might Have Happened If You Were Never Born
• Nokia: The Forgotten Player in the Apple-Google Maps Battle
• Dart: Structured web apps
• Answering Baranovskiy’s JavaScript quiz
• Javascript quiz
• Live Weather Display Using CSS, jQuery and PHP
• Apple Maps Wreak Havoc with New Yorker Cover

Monday, October 1, 2012

• 50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air
• Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
• Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Problem, Says You’re Holding It Wrong
• If Hemingway wrote JavaScript
• Understanding JavaScript Prototypes.
• Where to catch the Google bus
• Welcome to TypeScript

Friday, September 28, 2012

• Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX
• Driverless Cars Would Reshape Automobiles *and* the Transit System
• 10 Important Facts of World Geography You Have Probably Forgotten
• 10 Ways to Prepare for a round The World Trip
• 10 Stunning Locations for Vacations in Ireland
• Steve Jobs wouldn’t have apologized for Apple Maps, and Tim Cook shouldn’t either
• Apple’s design process
• Google’s "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps

Thursday, September 27, 2012

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Iran and the Bomb, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Facts.
• As Sea Levels Rise, Pacific Island Nations Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
• Adobe Edge Web Fonts
• Announcing Source Code Pro
• The City from the Valley, 2012
• iPhone 5 and iOS 6 for HTML5 developers, a big step forward: web inspector, new APIs and more

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close
• 7 HTML5 features that you may not know about
• What To Bring To New Zealand
• Apple’s .mobi insanity
• Tricky Type Terms
• Identify Fonts by Sight
• Animating max-height to overcome height:auto limitation

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

• On Top of the World!
• People Who Say They’re Moving To Canada Because Of ObamaCare
• Is Climate Change Hell Now Inevitable?

Monday, September 24, 2012

• Entrepreneurship and World Travel with Colin Wright
• getyourasskissed.com
• Understanding the iOS6 AJAX bugs
• "Old" Flexbox and "New" Flexbox
• Adobe unveils new Edge tools and services for designers and developers
• Don’t build an app based on your website. Build the app that acts as if websites never existed in the first place. Build the app for the person who has never used a desktop computer.
• Look At All These iPhone 5s Flooding FedEx’s Distribution Center
• The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T
• Avocado — Messaging, lists and more for couples on iPhone, Android, and web

Saturday, September 22, 2012

• Chaos on Bullshit Mountain

Friday, September 21, 2012

• Expressions versus statements in JavaScript
• Stacking Changes Coming to position:fixed elements

Thursday, September 20, 2012

• Tinké - The quick, revolutionary way to check your fitness and wellness is now at your fingertip.
• WiFi connectivity under iOS 6 temporarily broken by server problem

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

• must read this troll
• Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size
• ACLU Takes CIA to Court over Targeted Killings
• NOAA: Record High Ocean Temperatures in North Atlantic
• LONDON, Sept. 19, 2012: First Peer Reviewed Lifetime Feeding Trial Finds "Safe" Levels Of GM Maize And Roundup Can Cause Tumors And Multiple Organ Damage
• Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA
• Google Apps update alerts: Supporting modern browsers: Internet Explorer 8 support discontinued

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

• Honor Bar
• Daring Fireball: The iPhone 5
• The Miracle of WD-40
• The Delusional Mr. Romney
• iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and &lt;canvas&gt;
• Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He Really Thinks of Obama Voters
• NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive
• My dog: the paradox

Friday, September 14, 2012

• Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect
• Some really dumb critiques of Apple’s design decisions

Thursday, September 13, 2012

• Buying an iPhone 5? Don’t go with AT&T.
• Foreign Policy Hands Voice Disbelief At Romney Cairo Statement
• Naming From the Outside In
• HTML5 Developer Conference

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

• BobDog Winery - Cloverdale, CA … most fun I’ve ever had at a winery!
• Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too Much On HTML5
• Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews
• Urban Nature photo contest winner on ViewBug.com
• JavaScript ‘this’ Keyword: What is <em>this</em>?
• Will Apple’s Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt?
• You Waste A Lot Of Time At Work

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

• eval() considered useful: code generation in JavaScript
• WebKit Nightly Builds
• The Safari 6 Web Inspector is an Unusable Mess
• RetinaCapture for OS X
• Lawrence Lessig: The No Lobbying Pledge
• Vanilla JS
• pmuellr: unofficial weinre binary packages for your convenience at my apache home page
• Apple’s Yerba Buena Decoration Shows Stretched iOS Icons, Possibly Hinting at Taller iPhone 5
• This $9 Cardboard Bike Can Support Riders Up To 485lbs
• 10 lessons for uncultured web developers
• Yeoman, At Your Service.
• Clarity over brevity in variable and method names

Monday, September 10, 2012

• Use ack instead of grep to parse text files

Friday, September 7, 2012

• HexGL, the HTML5 futuristic racing game.
• 7 tips on writing clean code
• Consciousness science and ethics: Abortion, animal rights, and vegetative-state debates.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

• Apple, Drone Strikes, and the Limits of Censorship
• Roominate: Maykah’s Toy For Girls

Monday, September 3, 2012

• Chris Hedges: Life Is Sacred
• World’s richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder

Sunday, September 2, 2012

• UNESCO wonders of the world
• 25 Creative Macbook Skins Using the Apple Logo
• Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
• Women Who Love Republicans Who Hate Them
• Owen Jones: Getting rid of George W. Bush wasn’t enough. The US remains a bully
• Up in the air with a human-powered helicopter

Saturday, September 1, 2012

• Greed and Debt: The True Story of Romney and Bain Capital
• The Five Big Misrepresentations Of Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech
• Election 2012 and the media: a vast rightwing conspiracy of stupid
• We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew
• The Clathrate Time Bomb
• Virgin to reward most frequent flyer with free trip into space

Friday, August 31, 2012

• David Koch breaks from GOP on gay marriage, taxes, defense cuts
• GPU Accelerated Compositing in Chrome
• Stick your landings! position: sticky lands in WebKit

Thursday, August 30, 2012

• A Detailed Look at the z-index CSS Property
• Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
• Will People Really Be Forced to Stop Eating Meat?
• A Troubling Chant on the Convention Floor
• Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

• Deficit Hawk Hypocrites
• Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA
• What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
• Wind Map

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

• Creating Polaroid Style Images with Just CSS
• Image evolution
• HTML5 Drum Kit
• HTML5 Gallery | A showcase of sites using HTML5 markup
• Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes
• seymourpowell: Intelligent Energy - ENV bike ( )
• Complexification | Gallery of Computation

Monday, August 27, 2012

• Continuous Integration
• DailyJS: JS101: Equality
• Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner
• Keep in mind as you put together your Neil Armstrong packages tonight…

Saturday, August 25, 2012

• Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?
• Legitimate Rape by the Renegade Raging Grannies

Friday, August 24, 2012

• how to track multiple svn branches in git
• Subversion Cheat Sheet
• Customizing git
• HowTo: Use git for personal development when everyone else is using Subversion (part 2)
• HowTo: Use git for personal development when everyone else is using Subversion (part 1)
• How to git-svn clone the last n revisions from a Subversion repository?
• How To Use Git-SVN as the Only Subversion Client You’ll Need
• Server Side Includes Tutorial
• Javascript Scope Quiz
• Octane — Google Developers
• Animated Radio Inputs

Thursday, August 23, 2012

• The innovations of Internet Explorer
• git-svn
• OK-Studios - Corporate Design & Brand Creation
• The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis
• Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

• Single Element Pure CSS MacBook Pro
• I Misspoke—What I Meant To Say Is ‘I Am Dumb As Dog Shit And I Am A Terrible Human Being’

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

• Let’s not race to the bottom.

Monday, August 20, 2012

• On surveillance, feds are listening but not talking

Sunday, August 19, 2012

• Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It’s Barack Obama?
• How To Keep Your Best Programmers

Monday, August 13, 2012

• Paul Ryan on soapbox at Iowa State Fair
• The Know-Nothings Ride Again
• The Right’s brittle heroes
• "Adapting" to the Climate Crisis: That Was Easy
• What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about
• Paul Ryan: Just plain bad for women
• Conservation of anxiety

Saturday, August 11, 2012

• Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system

Friday, August 10, 2012

• 12 things about the WebKit inspector I didn’t know
• Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others

Thursday, August 9, 2012

• Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
• Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer
• MARS Greeley Haven 360 Panorama

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

• An Unexpected Ass Kicking
• Romney’s incredible extremes
• NASA’s $2.5bn Curiosity rover: An Apple PowerBook on wheels

Monday, August 6, 2012

• Mars rover sends first incredible photos

Sunday, August 5, 2012

• Climate change is here — and worse than we thought
• "Klaidman has reported what would appear to be the first instance in American history of a sitting President speaking of his intent to kill a particular U.S. citizen without that citizen having been charged formally with a crime or convicted at trial."
• Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world?

Friday, August 3, 2012

• fish’s fish shell

Thursday, August 2, 2012

• Pussy Riot are a reminder that revolution always begins in culture
• ‘Excited Train Guy’ puts ‘Double Rainbow’ dude to shame
• Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now
• Dear Mark Zuckerberg by Dalton Caldwell
• OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

• Romney tax plan helps rich most. Seriously, I hope this doesn’t surprise anyone.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

• High speed cable scrapped in blow to New Zealand broadband plans
• Extremism normalized: "The Vice President is a torturer and I respect him."
• If Twitter doesn’t reinstate Guy Adams, it’s a defining moment
• Mitt Romney’s 20th-century worldview
• Video, Mobile, and the Open Web
• Video - Dive Into HTML5
• Ascii Street View…done in WebGL. That makes zero sense to me.
• Healthcare in New Zealand
• NASA to athletic Mars rover: ‘Stick the landing’

Monday, July 30, 2012

• U.S. woman has medaled in 5 straight Olympics and could medal in the next 9 or 10, too!
• Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance
• Retina.js | Retina graphics for your website
• A full vendor stack for targeting High Resolution ‘retina’ devices
• How to serve high-resolution website images for retina displays (new iPad/iPhone4)
• Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’ Due To Carbon Pollution

Sunday, July 29, 2012

• Texans’ Arian Foster insists he knows best about his vegan diet in face of criticism
• Why You Should Be More Interested in Mars Than the Olympics

Saturday, July 28, 2012

• Nataly Dawn | How I Knew Her

Friday, July 27, 2012

• How to Format a Screenplay
• The "Wazzock" Mitt Romney Is Wrong About London Olympics, and This Is Unfortunate
• New research finds that climate skeptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked
• Dear Great Britain: Yeah. We know. Sorry. Welcome to our world. -Signed, America
• Mitt Romney’s Olympics blunder stuns No 10 and hands gift to Obama

Thursday, July 26, 2012

• New Instagram Glasses add filter effects to real life
• [Post-Lion Install] CS4ServiceManager: Eff-Off
• Annoyed that upgrading to Mountain Lion means having to set the nohidden flag on ~/Library <em>again</em>
• How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care
• The writing in this piece is overdone, but I agree completely with this: "Believing you’re contributing to the greater good by the act of voting in this big money-controlled, sham republic is like donating your blood to a blood bank owned by vampires."
• Texas Judge Rules The Sky Belongs To Everyone
• Drought in US Intensifying to ‘Historic Proportions’
• The world is closer to a food crisis than most people realise

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

• Coffeeshop Physics: Magnetodynamics
• 147 Colors | CSS Color Names
• Abusing JavaScript to Measure Web Performance

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

• Bernie Sanders is a true patriot.
• Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math
• Outside money ban in Massachusetts Senate race is working, but at what price? … Such a misleading headline. The ‘price’ of this is that in 1 race in the country, we get democracy back.

Monday, July 23, 2012

• The basics of scope. Don’t come to my interview not knowing this.
• xkcd: ContextBot
• "The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists."
• ‘Downing Street Memo’ Redux: Is the Intelligence Fix on Iran Already Underway?
• Climate Emergency Action Plan by Sarah van Gelder
• Three Big Lies Perpetuated by the Rich
• Noam Chomsky, The Great Charter, Its Fate, and Ours
• Ninja power: open-source HTML5 toolset aims to enable richer Web apps

Sunday, July 22, 2012

• Mitt’s Offshore Shenanigans: The Bigger Story
• Freemium has run its course
• View from the ISS at Night on Vimeo
• Entitlement and Acquisition, a withering critique of the Twitterverse’s reaction to the Sparrow acquisition by Matt Gemmell

Saturday, July 21, 2012

• From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
• Emails Show Racist Motivation Behind Arizona Immigration Law
• Rethink Digg
• Backbone.js Hacker’s Guide
• New Programming Jargon (especially love ‘Yoda Conditions’)
• Sloppy is as sloppy does (& I love that the slug for this URL is i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo)

Friday, July 20, 2012

• I just bought Sparrow for my iPhone YESTERDAY then saw they were acquired by Google. Here’s hoping they don’t mess with it!
• The Colorado shooting and the gag rule on guns
• Glan, no bull

Thursday, July 19, 2012

• Firefox 3D Web Inspector
• How to write low garbage real-time JavaScript
• Console to Chrome - Optimizing JavaScript for V8
• JavaScript memory optimization and texture loading

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

• Where the ISS at?
• Look what I stumbled across as I was rummaging around old papers tonight….
• Enyo 2 Exits Beta
• Marissa Mayer’s top 3 challenges as Yahoo CEO
• Old School Cassette Player with HTML5 Audio
• Raw WebGL 101 — Part 2: a simple shader - Dev.Opera
• Mastering the Application Cache Manifest for Offline Web Apps and Performance
• Run Puma Run
• RGIII signs <em>fully guaranteed</em> deal with the ‘Skins

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

• Hot Enough for You? Time to Teach Against Fossil Fuels
• trunk8 - text truncation jQuery plugin
• Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes)
• Seamless iframes: The future, today!
• Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something
• Tom DeMarco on how a project’s need for metrics and its value relate (via Daniel Lyons)

Monday, July 16, 2012

• Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In Alaskan Harbor

Sunday, July 15, 2012

• Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn’t A Failure, It Was A Beginning

Saturday, July 14, 2012

• Romney’s ‘Free Stuff’ Speech Is a New Low
• The Third-Party Lock Out
• In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won

Friday, July 13, 2012

• 91
• I find this disturbing.
• Annotating JavaScript for the Closure Compiler - Closure Tools — Google Developers
• Join the Movement - App.net
• JavaScript Game Code Organization
• Betaworks Acquires Digg (For Significantly More Than $500K)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

• War and Climate Change
• It’s time to stop blaming Internet Explorer
• WebKit as de-facto standard for viewports and touch events

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

• Getting started with Mini vMac 3.2.3
• Chronostasis (via XKCD)
• The NSA is monitoring your every email, mobile call, and text message. No joke.
• Report: Extreme Weather Tied to Man-Made Climate Change … duh.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

• The Silence on Global Warming
• It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
• Leaflet - a JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
• Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
• As promised, here’s the photo of $211,223 in cash we raised for charity
• Playcraft use object pooling to reduce garbage collection, resullting in massive performance increases for certain classes of games.
• playcraft/gamecore.js

Monday, July 9, 2012

• Safari on iOS 5 Randomly Switches Images, Part 3
• Safari on iOS 5 Randomly Switches Images, Part 2
• Safari on iOS 5 Randomly Switches Images
• As if global warming isn’t a big enough problem, ocean acidification is happening "at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years due to increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere." Say goodbye to the Great Barrier Reef.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

• The Web Can Do That!?
• "Apple believes the future is invented by the people who don’t give a shit about the past."

Saturday, July 7, 2012

• Lazy Parsing in JavaScript Engines
• Working with large integers in JavaScript

Thursday, July 5, 2012

• "I worry that RG3 is simply the latest package from the Acme Corp. addressed to Wile E. Coyote."

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

• "[I]f the US adopted Germany’s work patterns tomorrow, it would immediately eliminate unemployment."
• On this anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, take an hour and learn about how to reclaim the government of We The People from the corrupting influence of $ in politics
• Yeoman - a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprised of tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications.
• Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

• Finding Portland
• This is what global warming looks like: 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June
• MVC is dead, it’s time to MOVE on.
• 25 Interactive HTML Websites That Look Like Flash

Monday, July 2, 2012

• There are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy Horse.
• Google I/O Recap from a HTML5 Game Developer perspective
• Jakob Nielsen says the usability implications of laptop retina displays are not all that big

Sunday, July 1, 2012

• Texas Republicans: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills" (you can’t make this stuff up)
• Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (scrubs your data from Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn)
• 10 New Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
• The Top Four Reasons To Quit Facebook
• As if 100s of 1000s of surveillance cameras isn’t enough, Britain will now monitor all web and email traffic, bringing the country 1 step closer to being a panopticon
• How to deprecate Twitter

Friday, June 29, 2012

• Wherein the potentially disastrous implications of the Roberts decision on ‘Obamacare’ is revealed
• jQuery 2.0 will drop support for IE6/7/8

Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Chrome on iOS is just ‘chrome’ around a UIWebView? Bummer.
• Maria: An MVC framework for JavaScript applications. The real MVC. The Smalltalk MVC. The Gang of Four MVC.
• Non-onload-blocking async JavaScript
• FOX & CNN have ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ moment over Obamacare. Morons.
• Android now using Chrome as its default browser (it’s about time!)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

• Meanwhile, Arctic Sea ice at lowest June level ever
• Exxon’s CEO: "I’m a doucherocket who doesn’t give a crap about the future of the planet as long as my company is profitable."
• EA demos HTML5 game at Google I/O
• Agent P Strikes Back (HTML5 game!)
• Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad has ended. Now what?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

• Impact Algorithms: Strategies Remarkable People Use to Accomplish Remarkable Things
• Inline all the things! (This article on CSS is actually pretty controversial and deserves nuanced consideration.)
• HTTP Status Cats API
• Surface: Between a rock and a hardware place
• XKCD 817
• Indirect eval in ES5 strict mode
• After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet.
• Fingerspitzengefühl
• Minimalist HTML5 Game Template by Mozilla Labs

Monday, June 25, 2012

• Content Folding
• window.btoa
• Making a speedy HTML5 game

Friday, June 22, 2012

• The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)
• Where the ISS at?
• window.matchMedia
• We Forget That Open Source is Made of People
• Poll Results: Popularity of CSS Preprocessors
• Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic CSS

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