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Short posts and notes.

• How it feels to walk in the city

• IndieWeb online

  IndieWeb Camp Online looks awesome. I’ll do my best to be there.

• Happy Veteran's Day

  My Mom shared a few photos from my Dad’s 22 years of military service.  He was in the Navy and Wisconsin National Guard. He has retired from the military now...

• Launchnik

  Coming up with an idea for a successful startup used to be difficult. But then Uber came along. That made coming up with a startup ideas as simple as saying ...

• Web standards for the future

  W3C released a short animated video celebrating the benefits of web standards and the open web.

• Earth and Moon

• Weekend visit to the Naples Zoo

  We made a trip to the Naples Zoo this weekend. The photos suggest we spent more time at the playgrounds than looking at the animals.

• XOXO 2014 videos

  I’ve been watching (listening really) to the videos from this year’s XOXO. There were some some excellent speakers and talks at the festival.

• Too Many Cooks

  I can’t, in good conscience, recommend anyone watch Too Many Cooks, the 1980s sitcom intro parody. And not just because it’s an 11-minute YouTube video (who ...

• AI is coming

  Nick Bilton is worried about the threat of artificial intelligence.

• Emergency compliment

  Just in case you’re feeling down, here’s an emergency compliment.

• My baby girl's laugh

  I could listen to this again and again.

• New Monument Valley levels

  There are new levels for Monument Valley coming on Thursday. I can’t wait. I play very few iOS games, but Monument Valley has been, by far, my favorite. The ...

• See the music

  Jason Kottke posted images of vinyl records magnified 1,000x so you can actually see the music.

• EFF secure messaging score card

  The EFF published a scorecard that shows which messaging apps keep messages most secure.

• Kid toss

  http://instagram.com/p/utrFTViMdw/

• Muhammad Ali in pictures

  The Guardian published a collection of 25 famous photos of the legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali.

• Aurora over Norway

  NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day site has an amazing picture of an Aurora over Norway taken by Max Rive. I especially like the climber standing with hands...

• You snuck your way right into my heart

  This is my favorite song by my favorite fictional 80s rock band, Love Handle.

• Daylight savings time

  This is the one day of the year when I understand the value of daylight savings time. I haven’t had this high of sleep quality in months.

• Me and my girl

• Kids think I'm rich

  There is nothing you can do to seem more wealthy to a kid than to hand out full-sized candy bars on Halloween.

• 5719

  There is nothing you can go to appear more wealthy to a kid than to hand out full sized candy bars on Halloween.</div>

• Gandhi's letter to Hitler - 1939

• Busy Vader

  Darth Vader lives a busy life.

• Gabi's Yoga Challenge

  Gabi is participating in a 30-day Yoga challenge during the month of October. I’ve been in charge of taking most of the photos (for some she sets up the time...

• Test flight

  I love this scene from How to Train Your Dragon 2. There is such a feeling of freedom and trust.

• Napping in her swing

  The baby girl fell asleep late yesterday afternoon while rocking in the tree swing in the back yard. She had taken an especially short nap earlier in the day...

• Illustrations of my family

  Well, they’re not really of my family. The illustrations below are by Pascal Campion and are of his family, which happens to have a very similar size and st...

• Twitter is down

  Twitter is down. This is why I think it is important to have my own site. If my site goes down, it’s probably my fault…and I can probably fix it.

• Competing views of the future: Huxley vs. Orwell

  This comic by Stuart McMillen suggests Aldoux Huxley had a more accurate prediction of the future in Brave New World than George Orwell had in 1984–at least ...

• Star ship size comparison chart

  To enjoy properly, you’ll have to click to zoom and then scroll and scroll.

• Living with a lion

  In the early 70s, Tippi Hedren–of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds fame–lived with her husband, teenage daughter, and a cat…but not your ordinary house cat.

• 31 Years

  My parents celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary today. I’m so thankful that they found each other. via

• Napping snake

  Today on my lunch break I saw this snake napping on the side of the road…at least I assume it was napping. Its eyes were closed and it didn’t seem to mind th...

• A blast from the past

  Thank you @faitherina for reminding me of this. This show was the highlight of many Saturday mornings.

• Introducing Carrot

  Many landing pages for new tech products follow a very standard layout and structure. It’s one that Apple popularized, and that others have copied repeatedly.

• 3969

  Aaron, are there prizes for participation?

• Appleoctopus

• After last year's government shutdown

• 20th anniversary of the blog

  The Guardian had a short piece celebrating the inventor of the blog, Dave Winer.

• The personal site

  Andy Baio and Gina Trapani recently expressed the sentiment of what I’m trying to do with this site–I’m making a place where I can write and share short thin...

• Boy in a box

• Skottie Young's Star Wars Covers

• 16 October, 2014 07:26

  Coffee, it feels so good just to know you’re there.

• I'm learning a lot from the fine folks involved wi...

  I’m learning a lot from the fine folks involved with indiewebcamp.com

• Ball

• dancedancedance

• Police Clash with protesters in Hong Kong

  For weeks now, pro-democracy protest groups have occupied parts of central Hong Kong, calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong’s Chief ...

• Building a minimum viable product

  Development for MVP means having something serviceable in each stage of the process.