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Short posts and notes.

• I made a playground

• "You are life"

• Pushing buttons to turn on lights

  Can anything be more satisfying to a one year old?

• At the farm

  This was taken before a moment the wheelbarrow slipped out from under her.

• Learning to play chess

  I spent some time Sunday morning teaching the boys to play chess. They didn’t even knock the board off the table.

• This girl is too cute

• My wife, the acrobat

• The boys relaxing

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  My 3yo girl refers to Empire as “The one with Yoda dying” (also her favorite scene from the movie). Unsure if this is a “win” or not. — Dan BRAAAAINSja...

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  Spurious Correlations – ” US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation 1999 2000 2001 200...

• The DigitalOcean difference

  I’ve seen a great improvement in the response time of my site since moving from Tumblr to WordPress. Having more control over what shows up on the page along...

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  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 (@Redd...

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  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...

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  http://vimeo.com/7547999

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

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  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 ...

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  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 #sciencehackda...

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  CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection

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  CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME

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  Arne Jacobsen: Room 606 at the SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, 1955. pic.twitter.com/AuWGjuQLwD — Paul Graham (@paulg) October 10, 2014</blockquote>

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  To properly display our minimalist content, you will need at least four free cores, 8GB of RAM and the following plugins — Pinboard (@Pinboard) October ...

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

• Auto-complete

  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

  Yoga Joes–“Peaceful action figures designed to inspire children, men, and military veterans to try yoga”–are the result of a recently funded Kickstarter proj...

• Glass floor on the Eiffel tower

  The Eiffel Tower now has a glass floor.

• Color explosion

• Comic Book Heaven

  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...

• New site

  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.

• Common misconceptions--visualized

  The data visualization site, Information is Beautiful, recently published an infographic of Common MythConceptions, which borrows its data from Wikipedia’s l...

• This site turned 5 over the weekend.

• I’m not sure if this should be categorized as a pro-tip or a life-hack.…

  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.”…

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

• Age verification exploit

  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 website...

• @MikeIsaac Now all the brands are going to want to get a dog to increase…

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

• Terms of Service; Didn't Read

  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.

• Halloween

  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 ...

• Homemade Halloween

  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 ...

• Are the rumors true?

  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...

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• 2014 National Geographic photo contest

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

• Hamster wheel standing desk

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

• How’s this look?

  How’s this look?

• Hong Kong protests from above

  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.

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

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• Global cities

  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....

• Fall is in the air

  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](…

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