{ "author": "Curtis Lassam", "blurb": "This 'Google Reader' plugin I'm using to generate Potater lets me read things more at my pace - but that means Potater isn't nearly as daily as it was. Oh well. ", "date": "2010-03-09", "top10": [ { "body": "Okay, I've decided that she is now in charge of defending the universe. The entire universe.", "category": "Misc", "link": "http://kotaku.com/5488004/voltron-does-not-get-any-more-adorable-than-this", "title": "Voltron" }, { "body": "Free? Torrent? Music? Lots of it? All of those things are free torrent music to my ears.", "category": "Music", "link": "http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/fifth-annual-sxsw-bit-torrent-download-is-almost-legal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Reader", "title": "Fifth Annual SXSW BitTorrent Download" }, { "body": "Some of this is very 'common sense'. And 'Zawodny' is one of the names on that High Performance MySQL book.", "category": "Programming", "link": "http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/011421.html", "title": "Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values." }, { "body": "Plastic money? I am all for this turn of events. Monopoly money? I support that even more!", "category": "Canada", "link": "http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/03/06/ott-plastic-money.html?ref=rss", "title": "Canada to Switch to Plastic Bills" }, { "body": "I'm going to sing the Doom song, now! This article speaks to the original Doom's arcade roots and strong mod support, two things that most modern engines have trouble with.", "category": "Gaming", "link": "http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74", "title": "Lessons from Doom" }, { "body": "Ubisoft's obtrusive DRM, the one that was cracked in 24 hours? Yeah, now it's making the game impossible to play for people who *bought it*. Oh Ubisoft, you hilarious bastards.", "category": "Gaming", "link": "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wgrqbIUJ3OU/ubisoft-drm-servers.html", "title": "Ubisoft DRM Servers Go Down" }, { "body": "This is indeed a horrible concern.", "category": "Comics", "link": "http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/03/08/horrible-concerns/", "title": "horrible concerns of the modren man" }, { "body": "I'm going to Peru in a couple of months, and it looks to be full of entertainments.", "category": "Travel", "link": "http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IQkVds97JF0/bob-harris-trip-to-t.html", "title": "A trip to the Peruvian Andes" }, { "body": "I'm not going to lie - most of these obsolete occupations are pretty crappy. I'm glad that they're gone.", "category": "Misc", "link": "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060", "title": "The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations" }, { "body": "Taxes are no fun guys.", "category": "Comics", "link": "http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1667", "title": "Dinosaur Taxes" } ] }