Immigrants now make up the largest share of the U.S. population since the 1920s. http://t.co/aOGpAKYPWs pic.twitter.com/mFUquRJ7Qw

— Sudeep Reddy (@Reddy) October 11, 2014</blockquote>

The marginal value of Foursquare has only been confused by addition of Swam, so I’m deleting them both.

— rands (@rands) October 11, 2014</blockquote>

Jack Jack Attack by jibé

Cascading HTML Style Sheets – A Proposal – “CSS is 20 years old today. Happy birthday, CSS! http://t.co/CGygOXl5Uz…”

Will Twitter pull another “fast one?” – “Conventional wisdom says that developers won’t return to Twitter unless they assure us that they won’t pull another “fast one.” I know I felt that way for a……”

Habitasteroids – “If you want to hollow out an asteroid for you and all your Twitter friends to colonize, you need this http://t.co/b8a4QHnmOW #sciencehackday…”

CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection

CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME

Arne Jacobsen: Room 606 at the SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, 1955. pic.twitter.com/AuWGjuQLwD

— Paul Graham (@paulg) October 10, 2014</blockquote>

To properly display our minimalist content, you will need at least four free cores, 8GB of RAM and the following plugins

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 10, 2014</blockquote>

Coworkers Each Putting In Herculean Effort To Sustain Conversation For Entire Commute http://t.co/6va7ba1tdp pic.twitter.com/ETYw47tlDO

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 10, 2014</blockquote>

This has been my experience so far with the iOS predictive typing–not that I spend a lot of time typing movie quotes on my phone. (via XKCD)

Yoga Joes–“Peaceful action figures designed to inspire children, men, and military veterans to try yoga”–are the result of a recently funded Kickstarter project. This is a fun re-imagining of the classic toy.

The Eiffel Tower now has a glass floor.

There has been an explosion in the number of colors offered by Crayola since the crayons were introduced in 1903. Slate has an article about the colors added more recently.

First invented in 1903, the original Crayola box contained only eight colors, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black. It sold for only a nickel.

Comic Book Heaven is a short documentary that tells the story of Joe Leisner, owner of the comic book store Comic Book Heaven located in Sunnyside, Queens NY.

It’s a sad story of the store owner’s final days of doing business. Leisner wanted to get out for a while, but once he’s done you can see he misses it.

I just finished moving my site over to WordPress. Now for the fun stuff of fiddling with design, updating old entries, and making new posts.

The data visualization site, Information is Beautiful, recently published an infographic of Common MythConceptions, which borrows its data from Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions. This is related to my earlier post on the list.

This site turned 5 over the weekend.

I’m not sure if this should be categorized as a pro-tip or a life-hack. Regardless, do not splash aftershave into your eye. – @jonathanfrei

Florida Fall has begun. Sitting outside, the wife said, “I need a blanket.” http://j.mp/1rYNyAJ – @jonathanfrei

A 12-year-old hacker uncovered a weak spot in the user age authentication process on budlight.com. There is no telling how many other alcohol-related websites have the same vulnerability.

@MikeIsaac Now all the brands are going to want to get a dog to increase their #engagement. – @jonathanfrei

You clicked ‘accept’ without reading the terms. It’s okay, nobody reads the terms. You’re in a hurry to use the app you just signed up for.

Most people accept the terms without having any idea about what they are agreeing to. Terms of Service; Didn’t Read aims to fix that by assigning rating to popular websites and apps as well as labeling and explaining various clauses their TOS.

We are a user rights initiative to rate and label website terms & privacy policies, from very good Class A to very bad Class E.

So the moral is, I should just put my posts here from the beginning. If the draft isn’t working properly, there is no advantage to using it or a similar app to putting together my blog posts.

I can just put thebeginning this of each post directly into tumbler. The problem with that, however, is that after I save a draft it inserts all of the HTML tags, making it more difficult to edit later.

It will still be best for me to use a text editor before pasting it in to tumbled .

Creating homemade Halloween costumes for your children is a great way to save money. And you can come up with a one-of-a-kind invention that will one day be as terrifying as some of these monstrous creations.

Emergent provides real-time information to help you determine which rumors you’re seeing on the Internet have been verified or debunked, as well as which are still up in the air.

Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker. It’s part of a research project with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University that focuses on how unverified information and rumor are reported in the media. It aims to develop and best practices for debunking misinformation.

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Unsurprisingly, there are some incredible photos among this year’s submissions.

I’ve been thinking about trying out a standing desk and just found the perfect one.

How’s this look?

The Guardian posted an impressive video, shot from a drone, showing the Hong Kong protests from above.

Jeff Goldblum is going to sell a lot of light bulbs.

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A city where the total population of the world could live is smaller than I expected. But it would be rough to be stuck in cross-town traffic in a city of 6.9 billion people. (via Swissmiss)

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One down side of living in South Florida is that even when the Fall months arrive, it is never this kind of Fall.

John Malcovich in famous photos http://j.mp/Y6lhv9 – @jonathanfrei

I’ve enjoyed John Malkovich on the big screen for years, but recently he’s taken his acting talents to a different medium–photography. Photographer Sandro Miller created Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters, featuring the talented actor in a number of famous photos.

In 2013, Sandro decided to do a project honoring the men and women whose photographs helped shape his career. After selecting thirty-five images to emulate, Sandro contacted Malkovich, who instantly agreed to participate. When speaking about Malkovich, Sandro states: “John is the most brilliant, prolific person I know. His genius is unparalleled. I can suggest a mood or an idea and within moments, he literally morphs into the character right in front of my eyes. He is so trusting of my work and our process… I’m truly blessed to have him as my friend and collaborator.”

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Caught looking

This gif will come in handy for a future embarrassing screwup.

This cheat sheet by Corey Smith can help you discover which social network is right for you. “I’m eating bacon,” simply states why I prefer Twitter to the alternatives.

The BFFs, Batman and Superman, save the world again. (Illustration by Darwin Cook)

The Best of LIFE: 37 Years in Pictures - LIFE.com

1949 - Pablo Picasso drafts a centaur in mid-air with a “light pen” in southeastern France. Originally published in the January 30, 1950, issue of LIFE.

You always have email.

iDevice size spectrum, with Pop-Tart for reference.

It is not entierly clear what problem the Apple Watch is meant to solve, but it will be difficult to say no to buying one after trying it.

While reading Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, last night, I came across a scene that was painfully familiar. One of the main characters, Dr. Manhattan, had left earth as an outcast because he feared his powers were harming those closest to him. Alone on the desolate deserts of Mars, he constructs a crystal palace, and I thought, “I’ve seen this before.” This is the exact same thing that happens in Frozen.

I pointed it out to Gabi, and she also saw the similarities. Then I had the idea to overlay the lyrics from the Frozen Song over the artwork from the comic, estimating it would take about two hours to do it well. And I wanted to get started right away! However, since it was already 11:30 at night, Gabi persuaded me to do a quick Google search to see if this was already a thing.

Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions is by no means complete or authroatative, but it is packed with tons of interesting–and well cited–factoids. This list is nearly as fun as the list of logical fallacies and the list of cognitive biases. (via Kottke.org)

This supercut, by Jaume R. Lloret, highlights clips from a number of Wes Anderson’s films, where the action is from the POV of characters traveling in a variety of vehicles.

I don’t think I can find the words to describe what watching this does for me. Everything about it is just so satisfying. I could watch it again and again and again.

2014: A Facebook Odyssey.

A recent Gallup poll shows new highs in acceptance of various morality issues.

The American public has become more tolerant on a number of moral issues, including premarital sex, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia. On a list of 19 major moral issues of the day, Americans express levels of moral acceptance that are as high or higher than in the past on 12 of them, a group that also encompasses social mores such as polygamy, having a child out of wedlock, and divorce.

Women Listening To Men In Art History

This is a picture of my dad (on the right) receiving the UW Parkside Alumni Scholarship. My mom say he looks a bit like Clark Kent. I can see the resemblance.

The Economist examines Gartners techno-hype chart.

The annual “hype cycle” chart from Gartner, a market research firm, tries to depict the degree to which certain technologies are exaggerated. Smart robots? Don’t hold your breath. Big data? Not yet. In the firm’s view, innovation advances in stages: from exuberance to pessimism to adoption. Not every technology progresses at the same speed, so Gartner assigns each an estimated time until the end of its ride.

Humans Need Not Apply. via Kottke.

Besides capturing them while they are sleeping, the only way to get the boys to stay still long enough for an in-focus closeup photograph is to have one of their favorite movies on for them to watch.

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong, back in the lunar module, after his historic moonwalk. (NASA)

What an incredible accomplishment. Someone should go back to the Moon today and take a selfie. via

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One of the greatest things about living in South Florida is the natural beauty of our beaches and the wildlife that inhabit them. This timelapse video by Cameron Michael captures two of our best beaches, Fort Myers Beach and Sanabel Island.

I’m glad to call this place home.

Disneyland’s original prospectus : Boing Boing has an in-depth look at the original plans behind the development of Disneyland.

Michael Reid Roberts has a piece in The American Reader about the grammer employed by Upworthy and other websites to attract clicks:

The key element in these titles is the relationship between the first sentence and the second. The first is relatively traditional, while the second sentence is short, annoyingly informal, and conspiratorial. We might call these couplets epodal because of the relative line lengths, but I think the effect is more similar to catalexis in that the second line’s brevity emphasizes something unfinished or incomplete. The second sentence is intentionally vague: click here to finish the thought, answer the question, solve the riddle! And, like most unfinished stories, the conclusion is rarely satisfying. But as someone who rarely clicks on Upworthy links, I have come to appreciate the beauty of these teases. Read the above titles again, but without registering the hyperlink: now they read like Buddhist koans. You want to know how you might be a war mercenary, but can you know, really? Bask in the not-knowing.

Collar stays.

GooBing Detroit uses images from Google Map’s street view to show the decay of one of America’s once-great cities. Here’s a powerful example.

From The Economist:

Waistlines are widening everywhere. The percentage of adults who are overweight or obese has swelled from 29% in 1980 to 37% in 2013, according to a new study in the Lancet.

Marketers that figure out the LTV of their customers before their competitors will win.

Ben Legg, CEO of digital marketing firm Adknowledge, provides background and insight into LTV, or lifetime value. It’s the business measurement that tells a brand what its customers are worth over time, and subsequently, what it should spend to attract them. LTV can quickly allow one brand to outpace its competitors.

Paris’ Grevin Wax Museum painter Franck Bruneau prepares the head of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger’s statue in their workshop before it is shipped to Prague for the opening of the museum on April 11, 2014. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)

Well, no need to sleep tonight…or ever again. Via In Focus.

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Easter Sunday

There were long lines both on the website and at enrollment centers to sign-up up for insurance in the days leading up to the end of the ObamaCare open enrollment period. But these lines lacked the enthusiasm of an iPhone release. James Taranto wrote in his WSJ post, Yes, We Can Wait:

The first thing we thought of when we saw the pictures was the photos we’ve recently seen on Twitter of Venezuelans waiting in bread lines. Waiting in line to purchase necessities is a characteristic not of a prosperous free society but of command economies under repressive regimes. Closer to home, one doubts even the Transportation Security Administration would be so tone-deaf as to advertise long airport lines as an indication it’s doing a great job.

My wife took this photo of my two youngest kids playing on our new back porch.

Jason Kottke sees liking something publicly as a sort of spectator sport.

Coffee, like almost everything else these days, is a sport. Everyone has a favorite team (or coffee making method or political affiliation or design style or TV drama or rapper or comic book), discusses techniques and relives great moments with other likeminded fans, and argues with fans of other teams. The proliferation and diversification of media over the past 35 years created thousands of new sports and billions of new teams. These people turned hard-to-find nail polish into a sport. These people support Apple in their battle against Microsoft and Samsung. This guy scouts fashion phenoms on city streets. Finding the best bowl of ramen in NYC is a sport. Design is a sport. Even hating sports is a sport; people compete for the funniest “what time is the sportsball match today? har har people who like sports are dumb jocks” joke on Twitter. Let people have their sports, I say. Liking coffee can’t be any worse than liking the Yankees, can it?

I’ve lived in the same apartment since January 2009. That’s the longest I’ve lived in one place in my life (almost). Leaving is bitter-sweet. It has been home to the best years of my life. Gabi was pregnant with my first child when we moved in, and we are moving out with three children (who are in desperate need of more room to run). Goodbye house. Goodbye Parkcrest.

I’ll have to say goodbye to this view…

Noise canceling headphones, quite car interiors, silent retreats–there is a big move toward quality, high-end quiet. Silence has always been valuable, but increasingly, people are showing that they are willing to pay for it. Chloe Schama discusses in the New Republic why silence is becoming a luxury product.

Unwanted noise is perhaps the most irksome form of sensory assault. A bothersome sight? Close your eyes or turn the other way—eyesores are, generally, immobile. An annoying taste? Spit it out. (Why was it in your mouth?) Sound, on the other hand, is ambient, elusive, enveloping. Even the softest drone can echo cacophonously if it worms itself into your head.

How long will it take for drone cargo ships to set sail and start crossing the high seas?

Military drones already fly frequent missions and civilian operations using unmanned aircraft are coming. Driverless cars are clocking up thousands of test miles. So why not let remote-controlled ships set sail without a crew? Indeed, the maritime industry has started to think about what would be required to launch a latter-day Marie Céleste.

What weapons of war do you need to defend your territory? Consider the following from the Guardian:

You’re a 16th century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you’re leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or settling a score with a rival nobleman. What’s a guy looking for a tactical edge to do?

The answer, of course, is rocket cats.

I’m sure there are other examples, but adding Handwriting for Android into Evernote is the first time I’ve seen a major mobile feature, from a mainstream software developer, introduced on Android before iOS. I’m sure the feature will come to iOS soon, and I will probably try it once–for the novelty–and then never use it again. I have a hard time reading my handwriting on paper, much less on a touch screen.

David McCandless and Kathryn Ariel Kay made a word-cloud of the most repeated relationship advice from across 25 popular relationship guides for the website, Information is Beautiful.

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John Siracusa’s post, The Road to Geekdom brings up some interesting points about geek culture:

Geekdom is not a club; it’s a destination, open to anyone who wants to put in the time and effort to travel there. And if someone lacks the opportunity to get there, we geeks should help in any way we can.

John spoke in-depth about this article on a few recent podcasts:

There’s been a lot of excitement on the web today about Getty Images allowing visitors to embed their photos across the web.

With people increasingly turning to imagery to communicate and tell their stories online, the embed capability opens up Getty Images’ award-winning imagery for seamless sharing. Through the embed tool, individuals can draw on Getty Images’ latest news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; immense digital photo archive; and rich conceptual images to illustrate their unique passions, ideas and interests. This innovation opens one of the largest, deepest and most comprehensive image collections in the world for easy sharing, thereby making the world an even more visual place.

Dustin Curtis:

Being there–in the arena–gives you the clarity of experience; it’s a sixth sense that is the ability to know which pieces of advice are important. Unfortunately, the most important lessons you can learn from people with experience tend to be things you don’t think are important until you have experience.

Today we celebrated my middle child’s second birthday. His buddies and their families gathered together for a fun get together at his favorite playground.

It’s amazing to think “I have a two-year old!” And then even more amazing to remember that he’s not the oldest or the youngest. He’s the best friend to his older brother and a loving protector to his little sister.

He has been such a joy to be around for the first two years of his life. I look forward to watching him get bigger, getting to know him as he starts to talk more, and being there for him as he grows into a young man.

Jon Bois created one of the most lopsided football games ever. Sunday’s Super Bowl should be closer. I remember fixing games by creating souped-up players with unbeatable abilities like this in one of the older PC NBA games years ago, but I never achieved a point spread like his.

Google is building an army–a robot army–through a series of recent acquisitions. It’s interesting to see the variety of real world applications these robotics companies are already pursuing and imagine what they will be able to do in the future. Gizmodo recently took a closer look at what the eight most recent acquisitions are making.

Robot technology would help with self-driving cars, certainly, but the range of these acquisitions hints at even broader ambitions. Again, we don’t know much. They’re all a part of the Google X division, which is top secret by definition. We do know what the new companies in the Google family are up to, though, and that might offer us some clues.

Thank goodness for this ESPN summary of the 2013 NFL season. Without it, I’d be completely lost going into Sunday’s Super Bowl.

If you’re like me and don’t watch any games besides the big one at the end, it only takes 160 seconds to catch up on the action and stories.

All the chatter about the 30 year anniversary of the Mac today got me thinking about Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech.

It’s still so good. And here’s a cool graphical depiction of his speech.

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Sometimes it’s best to just enjoy a moment. Sometimes you’ll pay attention to it more with a camera in hand. Sometimes you create the moment by messing with someone with a strong opinion.

I haven’t seen nearly enough of these movies from 2013. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of year end reviews.

Yes. Please.

Superpedestrian - The Copenhagen Wheel

What to Read Next : InstaRank - v1.0

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…and the US is getting older fast.

Jeffrey Zeldman:

Yes, recycling other people’s recycling of other people’s recycling of cat gifs is fun and easy on Tumblr. Yes, rubbing out a good bon mot on Twitter can satisfy one’s ego and rekindle a wistful remembrance of meaning. Yes, these things are still fine to do. But they are not all we can do on this web. This is our web. Let us not surrender it so easily to new corporate masters.

Being first is not the only way to win. The cost of crossing the finish line first sometimes outweighs the prize you get for winning. The second mouse to reach the trap gets the cheese and gets to search for more tomorrow. All but the slowest runner in the group escapes the bear.

Apple didn’t make the first computer, MP3 player, or Smartphone. Amazon didn’t invent the bookstore. They didn’t win by trying to finish first.

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