{
	"date":"2010-02-12",
	"blurb":"That's it for this week, although I might be launching some sort of smallish RSS app over the weekend. Maybe.",
	"author":"Curtis Lassam",
	"top10":
	[
		{
		"title":"ZAGAT", 
		"link":"http://www.straight.com/article-289274/vancouver/zagat-gives-free-online-access-vancouver-ratings",
		"body":"In the spirit of the games, ZAGAT has decided to make it's ratings available to anybody who wants them for a few weeks, for free, just going to show everybody that the existing free alternatives like 'yelp' and 'dinehere' are not only easier to use, but just as accurate anyways.",
		"category":"Vancouver"
		},
		{
		"title":"Google Kills Startups", 
		"link":"http://cdixon.org/2010/02/11/every-time-an-engineer-joins-google-a-startup-dies/",
		"body":"Young, bright, motivated types tend to join Google (or Apple, or to a much, much lesser extent, Microsoft) instead of forming their own companies. News at 11.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Googlestralia", 
		"link":"http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-baulks-at-conroys-call-to-censor-youtube-20100211-ntm0.html",
		"body":"Google apparently refuses to censor content in Australia, either. If China can't pull that sort of crap, I can't imagine why Australia would think that it could get away with it.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Internet Explorer 6", 
		"link":"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/11/the-life-times-and-death-of-internet-explorer-6-comic-strip/",
		"body":"It's a helpful cartoon about IE6! Huzzah!",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"MySpace", 
		"link":"http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/flailing-myspace-loses-ceo/",
		"body":"MySpace is currently involved in the magical process of drowning in a torrential downpour of its own shit.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Android Bug Reports", 
		"link":"http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/02/08/android-bug-reports-songs-rovers/",
		"body":"Randall Monroe files some soulful bug reports against the Android.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Mail Server Follies", 
		"link":"http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Great-Cascade.aspx",
		"body":"Usually theDailyWTF serves up some sort of tale of ineptitude, but this doesn't seem out-of-the-ordinary for any sort of large organization.  It's really just a story about a mail server that failed, and why, some dumb executives (What's new) and the solution. ",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"D&D on Microsoft Surface", 
		"link":"http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10451247-1.html",
		"body":"Do you remember how Microsoft is where good ideas go to die? Well, Microsoft Surface is one of those cool ideas that Microsoft seems to be choking to death with the giant cock of it's own inept bureaucracy. Some external developers got their hands on a table, though, and they used it to develop a slick-as-all-hell Dungeons and Dragons experience.  Microsoft Surface presents a pretty neat interface for augmented board gaming experiences, and that could end up being pretty cool.  As soon as this technology goes even remotely mainstream, the first guys to put together a collectible card game are going to make a friggin' MINT.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Leadership", 
		"link":"http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2151-derek-sivers-3-minute-ted-talk",
		"body":"A TED talk on leadership, as expressed through frenzied dance-moves in a pair of shorts.",
		"category":"Misc"
		},
		{
		"title":"Save the Newspapers!", 
		"link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/11/sarcasm-save-the-new.html",
		"body":"Newspapers are dying, and if somebody doesn't save them, original reporting will die! I guess. A sarcastic and sharp look at the dying newspaper.  Oh, Marmaduke.",
		"category":"Tech"
		}
	]
}