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

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 BRAAAAINSjamin (@danbenjamin) October 12, 2014</blockquote>

Spurious Correlations – ” US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007……”

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 with the fast DigitalOcean SSD seems to have made a big difference in the performance of the site.

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.