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“If You’re Feeling Sinister” Documentary!

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Dennis Busenitz: Clearly a Machine

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Bookmarklet: Horizontally invert HTML5 videos

My demands for “reverse” glasses have gone unserved, but I made a bookmarklet that provides the same effect: “flopping” a video horizontally. Install the SwitchStance bookmarklet, for which you’ll need a modern browser that supports CSS transforms on video elements. Opt-in to YouTube’s HTML5 trial Load up any video without ads (here’s one of Matt

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Honduras Might Try Charter Cities

From the Charter Cities blog: The government in Honduras is convinced that a charter city could be the safe playing field, with new rules, where Hondurans of all backgrounds can come together and put their skills to work with the financial resources, expertise, and technology available in the rest of the world. I first read

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Content Delivery and Format Fail

The pic on the right is from The Berrics’ “New Year’s Dae” video. The skating is amazing—well worth a dollar—and the site’s registration and checkout was painless, but the rest has been a disappointment: There’s no way to download this “downloadable part,” as it’s advertised. You must install an Adobe Air application, which downloads the

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Magical Translator Window

Indistinguishable from magic, and available in your pocket. Your jetpacks have arrived!

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Cato on Cops and Cameras

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Awesome part: Nick Boserio

Speed and style reminds me of Matt Hensley. And music is good, too. Apparently from a video “No Strings Attached”.

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The Future is Windows 3.11 Workstation

[slightly NSFW] Related: Screenshot of the Win3.11 skin for WindowBlinds

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I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I’m very hungry.

(NSFW)

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Patent Absurdity

Don’t miss Patent Absurdity, a free half-hour documentary that “explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy.” When you open the page, the embedded video begins without human interaction, a violation of an Eolas

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David Rawlings and Gillian Welch on Tiny Desk

Amazing performance and recording. Apparently David’s a great writer, too. I need this album.

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Kleiman on Crime and Punishment

Remind your fiscally conservative politician that all these have severe public costs: Crime Prison cells Disease spread in overcrowded prisons Reduced number of working citizens Broken families and lack of role models Public fear of victimization Evidence shows we can have a criminal justice system that actually convinces most criminals to give up crime while

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The Quickening of Facebook

If you’ve used Facebook in Opera and Firefox, you might have noticed that Facebook is several magnitudes faster in FF, but this has nothing to do with FF’s speed. For FF and IE users, Facebook uses a client-side architecture called “Quickening” that basically makes a few popular pages into full AJAX applications that stay loaded

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Miško Hevery Programming Talks

Miško Hevery gave several presentations at Google last year that are worth checking out, I think even if you’re familiar with Dependency Injections and unit testing. They cover the ways that global state can sneak into applications, how undeclared dependencies make classes harder to test and reuse, and how DI in general eases a lot

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Why The Onion is Great : It’s the Little Things

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Physics engine in Sketchup

I knew Sketchup was a great modeling tool, but apparently it’s also scriptable via a Ruby API and embedded web browser. At Google’s IO conference, Scott Lininger showed off some of this awesomeness. 20 min into the video below we see Scott capturing keystroke events within the browser instance and using them to control a

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Portal

Check out the trailer to Portal. It’s a first-person puzzler where your only ability is to create circular space/time portals between two locations. Your movement (and gravity!) does the rest. The trailer is also pretty funny. This would’ve made Berzerk so much easier.

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Robot pucks will destroy man

Really cool technology with video.

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Google TechTalk: OLPC

Another brilliant Google TechTalk, this one on the massive tech challenges of the One Laptop Per Child project. The revolutionary hardware design was hard enough, but the software goals are incredibly ambitious, particularly in the areas of security and long-term user data persistence within a very small space. Right now the permanent data store is

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