{
	"date":"2010-02-04",
	"blurb":"I'm posting this SO LATE, and that is because after work I trundled myself off to a meeting, where we wanted to talk about a RSS FILTERING ENGINE that will be awesome.  I'm going to use it to power some neatopants stuff on the Potater backend. Someday. First we need to build it, but now muhna muhna muhna sleeeeeep.",
	"author":"Curtis Lassam",
	"top10":
	[
		{
		"title":"Giger", 
		"link":"http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/hr-gigers-cyborg-horror-merges-sex-tech-legend/",
		"body":"This gallery proves once again that H.R. Giger, inspiration for Alien, is a scary, scary dude.",
		"category":"Misc"
		},
		{
		"title":"Box", 
		"link":"http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/02/04/2010-is-looking-up/",
		"body":"I'm not going to lie: This is the Vancouver Housing market through and through. ",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Lama", 
		"link":"http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/China+snubs+degrees/2521064/story.html",
		"body":"So, the University of Calgary had a visit from the Dalai Lama, and now China is all 'oh no you di-int'.  The best part of the article is the Chinese students at U of C who are pissed off for any number of reasons. ",
		"category":"Misc"
		},
		{
		"title":"Name", 
		"link":"http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1647",
		"body":"T-Rex's ongoing quest to have something named after him continues.  Oh, and if anybody in the audience is wondering? Bam_. \n .. _Bam: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lassam+Rd.+&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=23.544524,76.992188&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Lassam+Rd,+Richmond,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia&z=15",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"H.264", 
		"link":"http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Royalty_Deadline_for_HDOT264_Extended__But_It_s_Still_Bad_for_the_Web",
		"body":"The group responsible for managing the H.264 is really pushing for adoption, promising that they won't charge any money for it until 2016. That sounds far off, but that's only six years away. After six years, they can charge as much as they see fit.  ",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Pop", 
		"link":"http://nedroid.com/2010/02/pop/",
		"body":"Sometimes, I find comics funniest when the words bleed off of the panel. Nedroid executes this adroitly.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Dew", 
		"link":"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/04/dew-spangled-spider-webs-could-inspire-high-tech-water-collection/",
		"body":"I don't know what it is with spider webs, but it seems like a year doesn't pass when scientists don't discover something super-awesome about them that they want to replicate in a lab.  Stronger than steel! Super effectice at collecting water! Sticky! Like some sort of mish-mash superhero. 'Adhesive Water-collection Man'. ",
		"category":"SCIENCE!"
		},
		{
		"title":"CSS", 
		"link":"http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201002/forgotten_css_selectors/",
		"body":"Maybe you had forgotten that these CSS selectors even exist. I did. Thanks to IE6 support being dropped by nearly everyone at once, hallelujiah, CSS 2.1 support is becoming surprisingly common. Oh, it's no CSS3, but hey, baby steps, right? We can't expect much from Microsoft. (More on that in a bit.)",
		"category":"Programming"
		},
		{
		"title":"Taco", 
		"link":"http://ethniceats.ca/2010/02/04/pinche-taqueria/",
		"body":"Look, I am constantly on the look out for anything approaching delicious Mexican food in my area.  My heart beats for chile-powder. (Well, it is *my* heart, so it beats about 4 times per minute, then I start to perspire).",
		"category":"Vancouver"
		},
		{
		"title":"Soft", 
		"link":"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?pagewanted=all",
		"body":"Remember how I said I was coming back for Microsoft? Yeah. Bam. As it would turn out, there's a controversy being bandied about from blog to blog about **this very article**, wherein an ex-Microsoft VP with the *third manliest name I've ever heard* talks about how Microsoft's internal structure works counter to innovation.  But that makes sense, right? Most of my friends know that, while Microsoft R&D does some pretty cool stuff, the company itself is where good ideas go to die. ",
		"category":"Tech"
		}
	]
}