{ "date":"2010-01-18", "blurb":"The weekend is over, I take to my task anew. I'm having fun pretending to be a content aggregator. I've signed up to every RSS feed I can get my grubby hands on, but even then I have trouble finding 10 things that I consider notable. Today was mostly noise and very little signal.", "top10": [ { "title":"Sinfest Turns 10", "link":"http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3422", "body":"I don’t understand how Tatsuya Ishida produces a lush, beautiful comic strip every single day, almost without fail. So now, 10 full years from his first strip and we’re at comic 3422. For people who haven’t read the entire archives, it’s very similar to his first-ever post, 10 years ago. ", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"Write An O(n^n) Algorithm ", "link":"http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar5uc/write_an_onn_algorithm/", "body":"Proggit intentionally writes algorithms that are very, very slow. Fun times? Maybe.", "category":"Programming" }, { "title":"A Cat With A Bowtie", "link":"http://i.imgur.com/Q1ifC.jpg", "body":"This one is exactly what it says on the tin.", "category":"Cat" }, { "title":" Two Countries Pooh-Pooh IE ", "link":"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8465038.stm", "body":"IE has a big ol’ security hole, and they don’t plan to patch it until February 9. Two countries, France and Germany, are now issuing government-wide recommendations against using the browser. And any time a whole country takes a potshot at a browser that you don’t like, it’s time for some celebrations.", "category":"Web" }, { "title":"Ow.", "link":"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/01/18/science-tattoo-emporium-how-to-get-in/", "body":"The periodic table of ARM, just one in a series of Science Tattoos that Discover Magazine has been collecting pictures of. ", "category":"SCIENCE!" }, { "title":" Pigz ", "link":"http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Pigz-on-the-Wing.html&Itemid=29", "body":"Mark Adler, writer of zlib, is now working on a parallel compression utility called ‘pigz‘.", "category":"Programming" }, { "title":" Hammock ", "link":"http://nedroid.com/comic/comics-rss/2010-01-18-beartato-hammock.gif", "body":"Nedroid provides a whole new world of comfort. Unfurl!", "category":"Comics" }, { "title":"The Unbroken Thread ", "link":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0", "body":"The Symphony Of Science is back to autotuning Carl Sagan, this time with some David Attenborough and Jane Goodall mixed in. It’s catchy and inspiring, although that doesn’t mean it’s going to be part of my regular library of tunes.", "category":"SCIENCE!" }, { "title":"25 High Quality Free Fonts ", "link":"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/18/25-new-high-quality-free-fonts/", "body":"I collect fonts. Do you collect fonts? Smashing Magazine went and found some free ones. Hooray!", "category":"Design" }, { "title":"Tor Science Fiction Reading Protocols ", "link":"http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58637", "body":"An article about how we read science fiction. Okay, maybe it’s a bit self-congratulatory, but who doesn’t like a bit of that in their day-to-day life?", "category":"Tech" } ] }