November 2011
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Type like a hacker. →
So cheesy. So much fun.
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Arrested Development back on Netflix →
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$5 Chess Game, Best-of-Three, Zuccotti Park. →
A growing number of people in America know what it feels like to be in zugzwang. For some of them their whole life has been one long zugzwang, they can’t remember ever having any good options. Without catching a lucky break, a lifetime of hard work for most people results in just that—a lifetime of hard work. For others they maybe once thought they had it all—a good job with a pension, a nice...
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Protect the Internet →
Congress is considering two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran.
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A brief survey of URLs
When designing websites, what the URL looks like (and how memorable it is) is just as relevant as what the content of the page actually is. Here are some screenshots of URLs and titles of webpages as examples, ranging from close to perfection to downright awful.
The way I generated these screenshots was as close to how a naive web user would: I googled the name of the company or product, and...
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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or...”
– J Krishnamurthi