Another round of the semi-annual link clearance. <\/p>\n
billg@microsoft.com<\/code>. (Hey, Bill, stop spending so much time on Gawker and get back to work!) <\/li>\n- Beethoven’s 5th Symphony arranged as a salsa<\/a>. You thought you’d never seen the day: A drummer reading music<\/a>! <\/li>\n
- Cheap amusement abounds in Seattle Bubble<\/a>‘s redundantly-named real actual listing photos<\/a>. (Related: See, I fixed it<\/a>.) My favorite is the Guess what’s amiss<\/a> quiz. Once you’ve been alerted to the issue, you start noticing it wherever it appears. Related: Detrimental Listing Photos<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Superconductivity illustrated via flashmob dance<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Artist R. Luke DuBois<\/a> studied the text of online personal ads from around the country<\/a> to produce A More Perfect Union<\/i><\/a> which (among other things) renders heat maps of the United States based on prevalence of words in those personal ads. I did not expect West Virginia to be a hot spot for kinky<\/a>. Another part of the project labels cities by the word they use most often. In Washington<\/a>, Seattle is Heartbreak<\/i>, Redmond is Email<\/i>, and Bellevue is Cigarette<\/i>. (Cigarette?) <\/li>\n
- How many Science Scouts<\/a> badges do you qualify for? <\/li>\n
- The transparent office<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- And that’s why you should learn to pick your battles<\/i><\/a>, sent to me by KC Lemson<\/a>. (Warning: NSFW language.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And, as always, the obligatory plug for my column in TechNet Magazine<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n- History: Gone and Forgotten<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Legend of Uninstall<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Testing, Testing<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- The Mystery of the Recalcitrant JPG<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Just What Is Size on Disk?<\/a> <\/li>\n
- What You See Is What You See<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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