{ "date":"2010-03-04", "blurb":"Seriously, I love finding the links, but posting them to potater is a pain. I'm looking at just hooking it straight up to my Google Shared Items.", "author":"Curtis Lassam", "top10": [ { "title":"Tro Lo Lo Lo Lo", "link":"http://trololololololololololo.com/", "body":"This was actually featured on the Colbert Report. Yup.", "category":"Misc" }, { "title":"Uniqlo", "link":"http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/", "body":"This hypnotic full-screen flash page just displays a clock, followed by attractive japanese-asian women dancing, and then a clock again, while music plays. It's a 'music dance clock'. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to get into Flash - while Javascript may be open and generally superior in terms of usability and interoperability, Flash is there for all of the stuff that Javascript just can't handle.", "category":"Misc" }, { "title":"Hellagram", "link":"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/03/02/hella-yes/", "body":"People are petitioning for a new SI term. Hella, after Yotta. Nice.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Gold Medals", "link":"http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/03/04/win-big-at-the-lyms-olympics/", "body":"Awesome.", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"Barbie Girl in a CS World", "link":"http://www.scribd.com/doc/27710281/I%E2%80%99m-a-Barbie-Girl-in-a-CS-World", "body":"The problem of low female enrollment in Computing Science style programs is very chicken-and-egg. In order for CS to be female-friendly enough to attract women, a lot of women must practice CS. It's funny, because in other countries - where 'indoor jobs' like programming were taken up by the mostly-female clerical workers, the programming field is totally estrogen bait. (See: Malaysia) - On the other hand, as a geeky dude, I am fine with CS being super-nerd territory. That's my subculture, dammit. I have a competitive advantage because I am a super-geeky dude, just like everybody else. ", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"IE9 to Suck Less", "link":"http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Microsoft_to_Double_Down_on_HTML5_With_Internet_Explorer_9", "body":"Microsoft is alluding to IE9 supporting CSS3 and even HTML5 standards, bringing it closer in line with its vastly superior cohorts. Unfortunately, most people aren't even using IE8, yet, so IE9 is a long way coming.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"There's No Room For The Idea Guy", "link":"http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy", "body":"Competent technical work? Super important. Good design, business sense, and the like? Super important. Great idea? You can fuck right off.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Two Different Worlds", "link":"http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2191-two-different-worlds", "body":"Do you know why Apple is destroying the cel-phone and smart-phone worlds? Because they've been shooting themselves in the ass for so long. Apple wins just by treating it like Serious Business.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"Valve on Macs", "link":"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/03/gallery-valve-tease.html", "body":"When I can comfortably play Team Fortress 2 from my Macbook, the world will come to an end. Fortunately, the graphics hardware in here is pretty terrible.", "category":"Tech" }, { "title":"They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They? (NSFW)", "link":"http://theyshootstars.com/", "body":"This long article explores 'Porn Valley' in California, and the tanking porn industry in general. Pay additional attention to the format - it's a sort of hybrid between book and article that feels totally at home on the internet. ", "category":"Misc" } ] }