{
	"date":"2010-02-26",
	"blurb":"I'm not really used to doing this without my laptop. Throws off my whole groove. ",
	"author":"Curtis Lassam",
	"top10":
	[
		{
		"title":"Mad Libs", 
		"link":"http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Using__Mad_Libs__to_Make_Web_Forms_More_Fun",
		"body":"Using 'mad-lib' style registration screens increases user conversion rate by 25-40%.  I'm guessing, however, that this technique works better because it's 'new and unique', not because it's actually a better way to lay out registrations. Once the novelty wears off, it'll be back to neatly formatted oclumns.",
		"category":"Design"
		},
		{
		"title":"When Using Open-Source Makes You An Enemy of the State", 
		"link":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property",
		"body":"That title just gets you riled up, doesn't it. Right in the chonies. It's a good title, makes you want to get your rage on about something. It's rage-inducing. Ragity-doo. ",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Incredibly Jealous", 
		"link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/24/thoughts-on-doodling.html",
		"body":"I don't know about you, but it's this kind of thing that makes me incredibly jealous. I wish I could just bust out slick cartoon characters on newspapers.",
		"category":"Misc"
		},
		{
		"title":"Floppy Disc Pillows", 
		"link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/25/floppy-disc-pillowca.html",
		"body":"Do want.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"The People Who Expect Us To Fix Our Computers", 
		"link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/25/comedy-the-people-wh.html",
		"body":"I don't know why this is such a prevalent attitude amongst non-techies.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"Cool", 
		"link":"http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1661",
		"body":"Dinosaur comics. Yeah.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Media", 
		"link":"http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/02/25/how-love-works/",
		"body":"I hate the media a lot of the time, and it's for stuff like this. Anything celebrity-related is not news.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Choosing Consistency", 
		"link":"http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/02/strong_consistency_simpledb.html",
		"body":"Scalability folks talkin' bout scalability. ",
		"category":"Programming"
		},
		{
		"title":"Louder and Slower", 
		"link":"http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Problematic-Problem,-Problem-supply,-and-a-TextDestroying-Problem.aspx",
		"body":"If you want to make something clear to someone who does not speak your language well, it is often a good idea to try 'louder and slower', even though it feels super patronizing.  This technique does not translate well to text.",
		"category":"Programming"
		},
		{
		"title":"Robin", 
		"link":"http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1802",
		"body":"This is exactly the sort of hero-sidekick relationship I imagine.",
		"category":"Comics"
		}
	]
}