{
	"date":"2010-01-24",
	"blurb":"Okay, it's the end of the weekend and I've just busted my ass on this *shiny* new website.  So I'm tired and a little drunk. This may be reflected in my top ten picks.",
	"top10":
	[
		{
		"title":"Creative Input", 
		"link":"http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/1/24/how-to-accept-creative-input-from-a-friend.html",
		"body":"I don't know what this guy is talking about. \"Knifeketeer\" is the best name for a superhero ever.",
		"category":"Comics"
		},
		{
		"title":"Thousands Protest Parliament's Suspension", 
		"link":"http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/01/23/prorogue-protests.html?ref=rss",
		"body":"This is the sound of *democracy* at work.  Wait, wait no, that's the sound of my laptop crackling.  I still can't figure out why it does that. ",
		"category":"News"
		},
		{
		"title":"Competitive Team Fortress 2", 
		"link":"http://www.ubercharged.net/2010/01/24/extelevision/",
		"body":"So, some guys have taken to making TF2 into a spectator sport. If you were to add some more camera angles and some big John Madden style commentators (\"So the thing you wanna do here is... cap the point\") and I would watch this shit every sunday with a beer and some hot wings.",
		"category":"Gaming"
		},
		{
		"title":"The Worst Idea Of The Day", 
		"link":"http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/is-the-world-ready-for-the-successor-of-the-mp3/",
		"body":"\"Is the world ready for the successor to the mp3?\" - yeah, *maybe* flac files. Some DRM-heavy report-back-to-momma file with built-in lyric metadata is going to fly like a balloon filled with lead.  A lead... zeppelin, if you will. ",
		"category":"Tech That Will Surely Fail And I Will Laugh At It"
		},
		{
		"title":"Google Remains Hacked", 
		"link":"http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html",
		"body":"I promise that I won't post another thing about Google and China, but Bruce Schneier's CNN mini-essay on the topic touches upon ubiquitous surveillance and makes you want to switch to full-on encryption for all of your day-to-day frip-floppery",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"You Win", 
		"link":"http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/25/heres-your-reality-program/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pa-mainsite+(Penny+Arcade)&utm_content=Google+Reader",
		"body":"So there's this Sony reality T.V. show where the prize is - get this - a video game testing job.  Most of us who have ever worked with computers knows that QA is the greasy asshole of the tech industry.  Do you know what a better prize would be? A balloon filled with lead.  A lead... zeppelin, if you will.",
		"category":"Gaming"
		},
		{
		"title":"Zen and the art of Web Performance", 
		"link":"http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/01/24/zen-and-the-art-of-web-performance/",
		"body":"I'm not going to lie: This is often how 'fun' programming feels. It accretes, like a pearl, or to a lesser extent body odour.",
		"category":"Programming"
		},
		{
		"title":"Neil Gaiman", 
		"link":"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all",
		"body":"A full-on New Yorker article on Neil Gaiman, a dude who writes awesome graphic novels and good books and Anansi Boys.",
		"category":"Books"
		},
		{
		"title":"The Classics", 
		"link":"http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1771",
		"body":"What is it with SMBC, always ripping on Catch-22? I read like 6 chapters of that book, and then I put it down because it was so incredibly dry that I could barely keep my ... oh.",
		"category":"Tech"
		},
		{
		"title":"When Mario Marries", 
		"link":"http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-sweets-when-mario-marries.html",
		"body":"These cakes have Marios on them.  It gets a bonus lift to first place because it represents a form of action that I would like to encourage - people tagging articles that they think should be in the Top 10 for me. Hells yeah. (Also? Thanks, Kerry.)",
		"category":"Cakes and Honesty"
		}
	]
}