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Git and Hg I love this article. Especially after getting the chance to meet Tim Clem from GitHub this week at the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Stanford Another cool course resource from Stanford being offered for free online. Pretty awesome that they can contribute so much to the community, despite being a “Junior University” 😉

Boulder: #2 “Geekiest City” in America We’re placing at the top in category after category this year. Smartest/Most Educated, Worst Dressed (But best-looking naked), and now “Geekiest”. Also notable that my old hometown (Ann Arbor, MI) is featured on nearly all of these lists as well, but Boulder manages to…

Mayor Crushes Car Parked In Bike Lane With Armored Vehicle

Magnetic Ragefaces I want these as soon as FourthSegment has a permanent office with a whiteboard.

“Another Earth” review in NYT Sounds intriguing. Though this line in the review makes me sad: “Another Earth” is not science fiction in the sense that we have to come to expect it — there are no special effects or monsters other than the failings of human nature itself.  Which…

Movie industry buries report proving pirates are great consumers The reason given for shelving it was that the contents proved “unpleasant.” Sucks when the research you paid for doesn’t come out the way you expected hoped.

Some cool research I saw presented back in college This guy, Takeo Igarashi, spoke as a guest lecturer in one of my Computer Science classes my senior year at Umich. Looked his site up again after the “Automatic Zooming” example crossed my mind randomly the other day.

“Holy-shit” inducing (S)CSS editing in a browser