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A graphic novel about Bertrand Russell's quest for the foundation of mathematics.

"It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript."

The Closure Tools include a JavaScript optimizer, a comprehensive JavaScript library and an easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript

"Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. Typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few seconds. And the compiled code runs close to the speed of C."

"…a Sunday morning game needs to be a calm, measured affair. It can’t be anything that requires fast reactions or violence…It can’t be anything with a time limit…It shouldn’t be anything that’s going to ask me too many complicated questions, or to aim."

Includes the AWESOME text editor for ADD sufferers — WriteRoom.

Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X

"With a tedious inevitability, the Daily Mail's campaign to divide the whole of Britain into people who wear poppies and people who are subhuman scumbags has reached the Premier League."

"Google Books has just launched a digitized magazine stand. In their never-ending quest to archive all media, from Web sites to books, Google is taking on the publishing world and scanning entire issues of magazines, ads and all. Most issues are usually two or three years old–or even a few decades old."

"Of course! This language of Lego isn’t just something our family has invented; every Lego-building family must have its own vocabulary. And the words they use (mostly invented by the children, not the adults) are likely to be different every time. But how different? And what sort of words?

Hence, a survey. I asked fellow parents to donate their children for a few minutes, and name a selection of Lego pieces culled from the Lego parts store."

Updates to Web Inspector in latest WebKit Nightly buils:

Editing Element Attributes and Style Properties
Creating and Modifying CSS Rules and Selectors
Inspect DOM Storage, Cookies, Event Listeners
Set Breakpoints and Watch Expressions
Easily Debug Ajax

Movie character interactions along time and character grouping axes.

A vegan restaurant. In a double-decker London bus.

"Chart Suggestions — A Thought-Starter"

Where "X" is one of hg, bzr, svn, perforce.

GitX is a git GUI made for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!

"It’s a web application that lets you deploy JavaScript packages from Git and load them on-demand into any website by including a single script tag. There’s been a lot of innovation in JavaScript deployment recently, and Helium fits a particular set of needs that I think most web agencies will be all too used to struggling with."

Fun facts, nice design.

Excellent collage of Bollywood film heroines, mostly using various handpainted vintage Indian film posters

"I don’t want to come across as I feel like this is destroying our culture. But every time I’m watching a show that has a laugh track and I start thinking about it, I just can’t get over what a ridiculous idea that is."

Chuck Klosterman is one of my favourite journalists. He regularly does great work for Esquire magazine.

A new Chris Ware comic strip in the New Yorker.