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First draft published by W3C.

…in Russia.

A HIT-MAKING KEYBOARD MADE OF 8-TRACK CAR STEREOS? MEET ROCK’S RAREST INSTRUMENT. Behold: the Birotron.

Incredibly well argued, lengthy discussion of Indian-ness in Indian writing, and the perception of Indian literature dependent on its language and regional provenance.

"What Paul Kane, chief executive (CEO) of Bath-based firm CommunityDNS, has actually been given is essentially a smart card that can be brought together with other such cards to create a recovery key for websites using a new form of web security known as Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC).

Kane admitted to the Guardian when the recovery key is initiated, only those sites using DNSSEC will be rebooted, not the entirety of the internet."

Also — the countries of origin of the other 6 key-holders: Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic

"Because these aren’t Ms. Truss’s colons. The colons of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, are brittle, dusty, soporific. “Prepare yourself,” they yawn, “that I may shortly provide you a list.” To actually call these colons by name (syntactical-deductive, appositive, etc.) is to virtually lose consciousness. So bear with me for a moment as we first rechristen our colons."

"Hello there. Thanks for flying Delta. I am sure you are no doubt trying to figure out what the fuck to do with the piece of paper in your hand right now."

Good Lord, I may never eat anything else ever again!

Includes details of the underground secure vault housing almost every Lego set ever manufactured, and exclusive video of how Lego builds the Minifigs.

Bloody marvelous Indian recipes from Maunika Gowardhan, a UK-based food writer.

Why *wouldn't* you watch this Chris DeBurgh-sampling piece of loopy video for, like, FOREVER? Hypnotic loopiness.

I like both of these incredibly talented an beautiful actresses, but this fawning, ludicrous interview is deeply unsettling and tragically funny.

"Ever wish you had an extra display for your computer? There’s an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPad as a wireless display for your Mac OS X computer."

Going to be doing this soon…

Great sunny electro mixtape. Tracklisting:

1. Russ Chimes – Raceway 036 Intro
2. Gorillaz – Stylo (Alex Metric Remix)
3. Phonat – Love Hits The Fan (Bestrack Remix)
4. Axwell – In The Air (Grum Remix)
5. The Vanish – Hold On (Russ Chimes Remix)
6. Andrea Doria vs. LXR – Freak Me (Phonat Freak Remix)
7. Popmusichi – Once Again
8. Louis La Roche – Malfunction
9. Patrick Alavi – Come 2 Me
10. Strip Steve – Breakin’
11. Ladyhawke – Magic (Donnie Sloan Remix)
12. Rhythm Droid – Sunrise On Planet Tokyo
13. Denzal Park – Filter Freak (DCUP Remix)
14. Tronik Youth – Disco Suks (Aston Shuffle Remix)
15. Steed Lord – Remember Me (Russ Chimes Remix)
16. Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed (Russ Chimes Remix)
17. Wolfmother – White Feather (Bang Gang Edit)
18. Wolfmother – White Feather (Burns Remix)
19. Tony Senghore – If You Came Here
20. Reset! – If We Try (Russ’ Love Anthem
etc…

"Alex Rodriguez is currently three home runs from becoming the seventh member of the elite 600 Home Run Club. Given the magnitude of the home run and the value of the ball, we at SeatGeek became particularly interested in where A-Rod’s 600th ball will land."

"A 29-year-old Californian named Travis Kevie was recently arrested after he broke into a closed-down bar and reopened it using six-packs he bought at the store. The best part? The police found out after the local paper published a profile."

"The work itself is careful, exquisite and dark. She has made robins draped across prayer books under tiny chandeliers, lovebirds gazing at their reflections in miniature mirrors above tiny splayed-out mouse rugs, as well as wilting pheasant chicks suspended from resin-coated balloons, which were produced as an edition for Damien Hirst's shop-cum-gallery, Other Criteria. Her later pieces have been more ambitious in scale and production: Departures, the flying machine sold last year, was a cage held aloft by a cluster of birds that included three white-backed vultures. Her new show will include another flying contraption constructed of balloons, a stuffed cardinal and a replica human rib cage. "I considered buying a real one," she admits, "but if it was sold abroad it would have been a problem with import and export.""

REACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE PLEASURES OF A HAND-SHARPENED PENCIL.

A prototype from BBC Research & Development: The most shared BBC links on Twitter.

Quick references of most common HTML/Unicode entities

Amazing. Generate gridded maps of cities with data from OpenStreetMap, along with an index of the streets with references to the squares on the map. Just wish it put the map and index on the same PDF for double-sided printing.

John starts by taking a stab at what we should expect for coast-to-coast roundtrip latency:

* Roundtrip distance between the west coast and the east coast is 7400 km.
* The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792.458 km/second.
* So the theoretical minimum for roundtrip latency is 25 ms.
* But light’s not traveling in a vacuum. It’s propagating in glass in fiber optic cables.
* The index of refraction of glass is 1.5, which means light travels at 66% of the speed in glass that it does in a vacuum.
* So a more realistic roundtrip latency is ~37 ms.
* Using a Linksys wireless router and a Comcast cable connection, John’s roundtrip latency is ~90ms. Which isn’t really that bad, given the other variables involved.

"My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself—who have free access to the site—are not going beyond the registration page. It’s an empty world."

"Apple's Keynote for iWork is probably not on your list for wireframe/prototyping tools, but it should be. It's ridiculously easy to use, creates gorgeous presentations, and features full suite of drawing tools and shapes."

Details of Barlesque, the BBC's page templating application

Twitter JavaScript API

Tracklisting:

The Morning Benders – Cold War
Rollerskaters – Sleep Tight
Via Tania – Fields
Tame Impala – Alter Ego
Best Coast – Boyfriend
Memoryhouse – Lately (Deuxième)
The Hundred In The Hands – Sleepwalkers
School Of Seven Bells – Babelonia
Dusty Brown – Back to Back
Lorn – Cherry Moon
Wax Stag – Folk Rock
Baths – Maximalist
Flying Lotus – Zodiac S**t
Tycho – From Home (Mux Mool Remix)
The Samps – Yellow Jacket
Onra – Long Distance (Instrumental)
The Beat Broker – Deep Sleep
ceo – come with me
Delorean – Infinite desert
Korallreven – The Truest Faith
Phoenix – Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
The Whitest Boy Alive – Intentions
The Swiss – Bubble Bath
Com Truise – Slow Peels
Computer Magic – Electronic Fences
Oneohtrix Point Never – Zones Without People
Odd Nosdam – Up In Flames
Fur – Lackadaisical
Ducktails – Mirrorimage
Medications – Brasil ‘07
Red House Painters – Dragonflies
Say Hi – November Was White, December W
Gravenhurst – Hourglass

"Where butch meets buttercream".

"Founded in 1999, CoffeeResearch.org was the first Web site dedicated to coffee education with comprehensive coverage on coffee, espresso, coffee brewing, coffee agriculture, coffee science, and the coffee markets. The research is the culimination of a year of travel studying coffee with the foremost experts around the world."

Beautiful set of 1970s era photos. It's so hard to capture that yellowed, desaturated look with modern techniques. "For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s."

Some really interesting agenda items here. Some are talk notes but some are nicely formatted PDF papers. Covers a wide range of security and privacy implications inherent in new location and storage APIs.