{ "date":"2010-02-11", "blurb":"Grace didn't know what the heck the site was about, so I added a sign near the top. Jenn thought the site lacked bees, so I added a bee. A bee named 'Argy'. (The bees 'Zyklon', 'Spelling', and 'Plan' were rejected for various reasons. ) ", "author":"Curtis Lassam", "top10": [ { "title":"Chainsawsuit", "link":"http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/02/10/too-much-the-magic-bus/", "body":"Oh, these are always so random. ", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"Teams", "link":"http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001320.html", "body":"The fairly obvious idea that 'big ideas' are worthless and technical talent is golden...", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Radiochoo", "link":"http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/gesundheit-radio-sneezes-twice-a-year/", "body":"There was a time when electronics were built to last. Aren't we glad that *that's* over.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Random", "link":"http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Quite-Contrary.aspx", "body":"So this is an ISO standard random name, right? Chosen by a fair dice roll?", "category":"Programming" }, { "title":"Obituary", "link":"http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1651", "body":"T-Rex knows himself surprisingly well.", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"My Little Pony", "link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/10/how-my-little-pony-t.html", "body":"Apparently, braiding My Little Pony hair is an entry point for Computing Science. Who knew. ", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Ubuntu Variants", "link":"http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7700/1.html", "body":"Some Ubuntu-based distributions you may not have heard of.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Designing for Trust", "link":"http://ui-patterns.com/blog/Designing-for-trust", "body":"How do people convince others that their site is trustworthy? With cheap icons, of course!", "category":"Design" }, { "title":"Iran bans Gmail", "link":"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704140104575056972514372994.html", "body":"Apparently, Iranians have been *using* Google's mail service, which - thanks to it's built-in automatic use of https - presents all sorts of difficulties when spying on them. So, instead, a nationalized e-mail service. Wow.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"T-Shirt War", "link":"http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/t-shirt-war/", "body":"Okay, so, a combination of flip-book animation, stop motion, and t-shirts all came together to produce... well... this thing.", "category":"Misc" } ] }