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Speed and style reminds me of Matt Hensley. And music is good, too. Apparently from a video “No Strings Attached”.

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Related: Screenshot of the Win3.11 skin for WindowBlinds

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Don’t miss Patent Absurdity, a free half-hour documentary that “explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy.”
When you open the page, the embedded video begins without human interaction, a violation of an Eolas patent. [...]

Amazing performance and recording. Apparently David’s a great writer, too. I need this album.

Remind your fiscally conservative politician that all these have severe public costs:

Crime
Prison cells
Disease spread in overcrowded prisons
Reduced number of working citizens
Broken families and lack of role models
Public fear of victimization

Evidence shows we can have a criminal justice system that actually convinces most criminals to give up crime while handing out far shorter and fewer jail [...]

If you’ve used Facebook in Opera and Firefox, you might have noticed that Facebook is several magnitudes faster in FF, but this has nothing to do with FF’s speed. For FF and IE users, Facebook uses a client-side architecture called “Quickening” that basically makes a few popular pages into full AJAX applications that stay loaded [...]

Miško Hevery gave several presentations at Google last year that are worth checking out, I think even if you’re familiar with Dependency Injections and unit testing. They cover the ways that global state can sneak into applications, how undeclared dependencies make classes harder to test and reuse, and how DI in general eases a lot [...]

I knew Sketchup was a great modeling tool, but apparently it’s also scriptable via a Ruby API and embedded web browser. At Google’s IO conference, Scott Lininger showed off some of this awesomeness.
20 min into the video below we see Scott capturing keystroke events within the browser instance and using them to control a modelled [...]