{
	"date":"2010-01-26",
	"blurb":"Slow day, today, but reading all of this still takes a surprising amount of time.\n\nI hate it when I like a link, and I check the date, and it's 4 months old.  My news is always hot and fresh, no more than a few days old, so I have to abandon the link and promote something else from the list.\n",
	"author":"Curtis Lassam",
	"top10":
	[
		{
		"title":"Hand Warmer Antics", 
		"link":"http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/01/whats-that-stuff-the-chemistry-behind-everyday-products/",
		"body":"Fun is had overheating handwarmers for amateur science.",
		"category":"Science!"
		},
		{
		"title":"Retro Digital Cameras", 
		"link":"http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/pentax-hides-bland-new-retro-digicams-in-groovy-getup/",
		"body":"That orange and silver Optio H90 is just the right sort of Zeerust_ . \n\n.. _Zeerust: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust\n",
		"category":"Photography"
		},
		{
		"title":"Household Tips", 
		"link":"http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1640",
		"body":"Dinosaur Comics will stop showing up in my daily top ten when it stops being one of the best things I encounter on a day-to-day basis.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Better brain scans through trepanning.", 
		"link":"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/01/26/to-see-the-brain-better-just-cut-away-that-pesky-bone-protecting-it/",
		"body":"Come on, come on, brain in a jar, brain in a jar, come on, come on.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Nobody Can Afford To Live In Vancouver", 
		"link":"http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/26/consumer-home-affordability.html?ref=rss",
		"body":"A recent report has characterized Vancouver as having the least affordable housing in the world. To people living in Vancouver, this comes as no surprise.  It points to policies restricting urban sprawl as the culprits; with heavy costs associated with developing new properties, houses become a scarcer resource.  Vancouver planners argue that urban sprawl is ass, and that we should seek to restrict it as much as possible.",
		"category":"Vancouver"
		},
		{
		"title":"Open Access to Scientific Publications", 
		"link":"http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69353-open-access-to-scientific-publications/abstract",
		"body":"The Communications of the ACM Magazine came out today, at least in digital format - with lots of cool articles that I would have loved to post in my top-10.  Thing is, though, most people can't actually read the articles, at least without a digital ACM subscription (at, what, $200-yr?).  The ACM argues that traditional publishing is a money farm for the greedy publishers, but open-access publication is too expensive to support without some sort of buy-in at some level. Of course, it doesn't help that they're using some sort of terrible Coldfusion mess for their ACM Digital Library app, and half of the ACM websites are in a state that I could only describe as 'academic'. So, you can't read this article defending why you can't read this article. Well, at least so long as there aren't any helpful-but-anonymous Google users out there_. In a world where publication on the internet is almost free, I have a feeling that academic publications are going to adapt or completely lose relevance, going the dying way of the newspaper. \n\n.. _there: http://docs.google.com/View?id=df2p7trf_6htrfdxgf \n",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Chill", 
		"link":"http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3430",
		"body":"I want to keep this comic for whenever I feel stressed out. Strap this bad-boy to a tea mug.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Teachable Moments", 
		"link":"http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/25/Teachable-Moments",
		"body":"Tim Bray takes a moment to share blogging with a class of ten-year olds. Also, is he in Vancouver? He shows evidence of being Canadian in a heavily Chinese-speaking area... ",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"The 2009 Feltron Report", 
		"link":"http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/26/the-2009-feltron-annual-report-ocd-made-sexy/",
		"body":"Nicholas Feltron issues a yearly personal report, containing handy infographics detailing his eating habits, travel locations, and frequent topics of conversation.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further", 
		"link":"http://www.theonion.com/content/news/science_channel_refuses_to_dumb",
		"body":"Normally, Onion articles are all-in-the-headline, but this one is strong through-and-through. Take THAT, Discovery Channel.",
		"category":"Tech"
		}
	]
}