February 2012
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Show HN: an unofficial API for Google Music
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Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is...
It appears that the same arguments that many of us have been fighting for many, many years are suddenly playing themselves out again in the National Review Online. It started with a really fantastic article by Reihan Salam and Patrick Ruffini arguing that legislating to deal with “piracy” doesn’t work and is the wrong approach anyway, because innovating and providing better...
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HTML5 Element Printing in Internet Explorer
I was recently working on a website created with HTML5 elements like header, footer, section, and more, and got a rude awakening by Internet Explorer 8. I knew about the hack to ensure the elements render and style as they should on screen…
// For discussion and comments, see: http://bit.ly/x6X6mS
(function(){if(!/*@cc_on!@*/0)return;var e =...
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Good Question, Joseph
from Unreasonable Faith
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thanks sybelifex
inspired by a commercial where the side effects list was three times as long as the introduction to the drug, and they were very clear that there are multiple (but small) risks of death associated with the drug
it was for an anti-depressant
from chainsawsuit by kris straub
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Late-Night PBS
from xkcd.com
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Kickstarter Likely To Provide More Funding Than...
An interesting point made by Carl Franzen, looking at the continued growth of Kickstarter raising funds for content creators, is that the site is expected to surpass the amount of funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts this year. They’re expecting to break $150 million (this past year it was closer to $80 million), while the NEA has $146 million to give out. Obviously,...
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02/27/12 PHD comic: 'Inspired by true events'
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
“Inspired by true events” - originally published
2/27/2012
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
from PHD Comics
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Assault is not free speech
I have to say, I was initially kind of skeptical of this story about the judge who threw out a lawsuit against a Muslim for assaulting an atheist. Several people have emailed us looking for a comment on it, and I hesitated to jump on it until I knew the whole story.
It’s not that I thought a Muslim wouldn’t attack an atheist, it’s just that people have cried wolf on exaggerated versions of...
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I read the Regal Standard so you don’t have to
Dennis Prince is one of those humble Christians who, like the evangelicals who plan to evangelize at the Reason Rally, is determined to intrude on the Global Atheist Convention. His method: he has produced a rag of a paper called the Regal Standard which he’s asking people to buy and distribute as testimony to the godless heathens who will be gathering in Melbourne.
I feel special because Prince...
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New Zealand Billboard Claims That Jesus Cures...
So, this is a real billboard that the Equippers Church in New Zealand just put up: You can’t see it in that picture, but there are currently six lines on it, representing the six people who have been “healed” from cancer by Jesus… even though the six people are using modern medicine to treat their illness… At least there’s some uproar over the fact that the church is trying to capitalize on...
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Genuinely the Stupidest Thing I Have Seen on the...
Australian bargain site Cudo, apparently co-run by Microsoft and Channel Nine, offers for an e-reader for sale, complete with a CD of 4,000 written works, the purported titles of which are here. If that title listing is correct on that CD, then tons of those books are under copyright, including what looks like hundreds of titles from SFWA members. Who I am pretty sure didn’t sign off on having...
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Study Says Videogames "Problematize" Religion as...
A University of Missouri doctoral student says many modern videogames “problematize” organized religion by equating it with violence in their stories.
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from The Escapist : Latest News
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How to Find Facebook Users on Match.com by Using...
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Free Delivery On Shattered Dreams
(There is a popular Kid’s TV Show in the UK called ‘Postman Pat’. It is about the adventures of a postman from the small village Greendale, and his cat, Jess. My three-year-old brother loves this show. My Mum has just answered the door to a postman delivering a package.)
Brother: “Are you Postman Pat?”
Postman: *completely deadpan and monotonous* “Yeah.”
Brother: “Where’s your cat?”
Postman:...
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Study: Playing Wii Does Not Lead to More Exercise
Kids don’t burn any more calories playing “active” games than they do sitting on their butts playing Super Mario Galaxy.
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from The Escapist : Latest News
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Why Is Atheist Content Being Flagged As...
Thunderf00t points out that YouTube appears to be banning videos that are “religiously offensive”… which means atheist videos (his included) are being taken down in spades.
… I got four videos taken down in half an hour, and a ‘privacy notifications’ against a further two…
…
The following videos were taken down, according to YT after review by their dedicated members who determined these videos...
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February 25, 2012
Kelly said it was funny. from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)
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Steve Kordek, a game designer who revolutionized...
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30+ years in the making - The ZMan (in association...
Almost 7 years ago I quit Microsoft mid career to go out on my own with the hope of writing games. Its been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid but once of those things that I never really got round to doing.
Since 2005 I’ve had many different projects - Microsoft timed the XNA release to coincide with my leaving which gave me several opportunities to work for them doing XNA Demos over...
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Horace Greenstein, Scary Owl Lawyer Watches The...
Day Four of our Famous Destinations Travelogue brings us back to Quantum County to visit with our good friend and known business animal Horace Greenstein. He is so scary he can make television personalities pass out just by scowling.
If you’ve been following the Goats Book IV Kickstarter, you know that we met our minimum funding after only 18 hours! You guys are superb. But it’s far from over;...
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Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen...
In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices.
Smaller touch targets are harder for users to hit than larger ones. When you’re designing mobile interfaces, it’s best to make your targets big so that they’re easy for users to...
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Me & My Monkey
Anonymous |
Washington City Paper |
Jan 1995 Confessions of a white-collar dope fiend.
[full story]
from Longform
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Positively Pissed Off
(Retail | Columbus, OH, USA) (A woman had bought a pregnancy test earlier and has come back into the store a few minutes later.)
Customer: “I want a refund for this pregnancy test!”
Me: “Sure, ma’am. What seems to be wrong with it? Do you have the receipt?”
Customer: *yelling* “It says I am pregnant! I did not buy this to tell me I am pregnant!”
Me: “Oh…well, we cannot accept it since it has...
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Ben Goertzel Why Time Appears To Move Forward
On a long drive to my mom’s house earlier this weekend, my son Zar and I got into a long conversation about the nature of causality, which got me thinking about the old puzzle of where the feeling of the directionality of time comes from…
Where does the feeling that “time moves forward” come from?
It’s interesting to look at this view from two sides—from the reductionist approach, in terms of...
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Anonymous turns their attention to Canada’s...
Ho-leeee shit. Anonymous is after Vic Toews now. They’ve released information about Vic Twenty’s mistress in retribution for bills C30 and C11.
http://bit.ly/zDvFSd
Anyone see any corroborating info about this Stacey Meek character?
While I’m not a huge fan of fighting fire with fire, Anonymous has an excellent point — every scrap of outrage someone might have over strangers obtaining and...
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Client: I have a project for you, it’s due...
Client: I have a project for you, it’s due tomorrow. Me: Shoot me an email with the specs and I’ll take a look at it tonight.
When I get home, in my email I find a homework assignment for a class he was taking.
from Clients From Hell
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I Still Make The Time
But then again, I’m a “have your cake and eat it too” kind of guy. After all, that is the purpose of cake!
from The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
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Web-Drawing Throwdown: Paper.js Vs. Processing.js...
Before drawing anything in a browser, ask yourself three questions:
Do you need to support older browsers?If the answer is yes, then your only choice is Raphaël. It handles browsers all the way back to IE 7 and Firefox 3. Raphaël even has some support for IE 6, although some of its underlying technology cannot be implemented there.
Do you need to support Android?Android doesn’t support SVG, so...
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In Georgia, a School Board President Faces...
A man named Leonard Presberg was recently elected to the Fayette County Board of Education (in Georgia). That was back in November. In January, he was named Chairman of the board. What are his views on education? You would think that’s the only point of concern for local residents… but at a school board meeting last week, resident David Barlow spoke out against Presberg… not because of any...
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1 Part Bleach To 100 Parts Stupidity
(Pet Supply Store | Avondale, PA, USA) Me: “How are you today? I’m told you needed help with fish?”
Customer: “Yeah, all my fish died after I cleaned my tank yesterday. My husband says that it may have had to do with me using bleach, but I told him he was wrong.”
Me: “Well, actually he is right. Bleach leaves residue on the glass. Even after rinsing it, that can kill the fish.”
Customer: “But I...
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February 22, 2012
OH SHNAP new Weekly Weinersmith! from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)
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Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense "Retina" Displays...
I’m loving responsive design and am slowly updating all my websites to support mobile browsers as well as tablets. Currently Hanselman.com (this site), Hanselminutes.com (my weekly podcast), SpeakingHacks.com (a video I sell on how to be a better presenter) as well as LostPhoneScreen.com (where I sell my Windows Phone 7 application.) All of this “mobilization” has stemmed from...
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The Rules of Movie Poster Design
The poster 6 Rules of Modern Poster Design does a great job of illustrating the cliches of modern movie poster design while paying homage to Saul Bass.
from The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
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YouBeMom
4chan for moms; anonymous, ridiculously active, and often brutally honest
from Waxy.org Links
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The Conservatives’ Cognitive Dissonance
Because if you’re not with the child pornographers, you’re with the cop killers and people with something to hide. With even the normally Conservative-friendly National Post taking issue with the new bill, they’re taking heat from all sides.
from The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
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Unmanned, a game by MolleIndustria and Jim Munroe
shave, pilot a UAV, play videogames, sing One Vision, and contemplate your actions
from Waxy.org Links
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Groupon manager attacks “slavedriver” CEO Daniel...
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How to Not Be a Shitty Recruiter
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Patent of the Day: “Apparatus for Facilitating the...
When they came up with this idea, the Blonskys must’ve said to themselves: “Yes, giving birth to you child is a special event in your life, but you know what would make it even more special? Turning it into a midway ride.”
From the abstract for the patent:
It is known that due to natural anatomical conditions, the fetus needs the application of considerable propelling force to enable it to...
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“Making of UO” articles at MMORPG.com
Read them here: Ultima Online UO General Article: The Making of a Classic Part 1 and part two. I wasn’t able to really sit down with Adam Tingle, the author, but he did run around the blog archives a fair amount. There’s some inaccuracies here and there, but it’s a decent overview. Some things I spotted: Throughout 1979 Garriott would design his computer role-playing game, revising it, adding to...
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Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN...
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, is hosting a conference about The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World. Sounds like it could be an interesting event, but one organization not happy about it… is Wikileaks. Seeing as it was a conference that touched on Wikileaks’ interests directly, Wikileaks asked to take part, and was instead...
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RIAA/IFPI Explored Possible Lawsuit Against Google...
Over the years we’ve seen a few lawsuits against Google because companies are upset that they don’t rank high enough in search results. Those companies seem to think there’s some sort of legal right to being ranked where they want to be ranked. Pretty much all of those lawsuits have resulted in dismissals. Google’s search rankings are an opinion and thus protected under...
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Because Chicks Ruin Everything (or: The All-Dude...
The issue, in case you haven’t been following the news: The Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. If you’re an employer whose mores come from 10,000 B.C. and don’t want to pay for your female employees’ birth control, the insurance company will cover the cost and not a penny will come from you.
The...
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Letting Loose
(Loan Office | Texas, USA) Me: “Hi, how are you today?”
Customer: “Not too good. My bowel movements are very loose.”
Me: *speechless*
from Funny & Stupid Customer Stories - Not Always Right
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Concept Video for the Future of Health Care Not...
As far as future user interface videos go, Ergonomidesign’s case study on the future of the health care industry stick surprisingly close to home. The technology on display, which primarily revolves around the Microsoft Surface and a personal medical device called the MiniMe, claims to be representative of the health industry circa 2015. That’s only three years away! While the tech...
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*** A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL TALKING BEAR...
*** A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL TALKING BEAR FANS AND FRAZZLED ADVERTISING TYPES ***
We’re happy to be back… HOWEVER since the folks at Bear + Partners are a couple of working cubs, so we’re reaching out to our fine followers. We’ll try to provide as many witty lines as our clients provide us, but we’d love your help, too.
So please send your suggestions our way.
from MARKETING CLIENT BEAR
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Virginia’s House Gearing Up to ‘Probe’ Women Who...
The Virginia House passed a bill 63-36 requiring that women who wish to have an abortion must submit to a “transvaginal ultrasound.” This would be a mandatory procedure and women would not have the right/freedom to refuse.
The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade...
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US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User...
One of the key principles behind the growth of the internet was belief in protection against secondary liability claims. That is, if you set up a website where users can post stuff, the people who post stuff are liable for the content — not you as the service provider in the middle. This is the core purpose behind Section 230 of the CDA (and, to a lesser extent) the DMCA’s safe...