Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese

Posted on July 08, 2011 in Interesting

via Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese.

Nǐ hǎo 你好! Permanently on my desk, and everywhere I go is an iPad/iPhone app called Pleco, which has my custom flash cards that I use to quiz myself about 300 Chinese (Mandarin) characters. I’m getting pretty good …


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Evernote - Architectural Digest (http://blog.evernote.com/)

Posted on May 23, 2011 in Interesting

Not everything is best suited for the cloud. I've used Evernote for a few years and always thought their performance was impressive.

http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/05/17/architectural-digest/#

Take aways:

  • Shards – protection in silos
  • Single-tier architecture; No remote storage
  •  Evernote's business model and cost structure. Evernote is …

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hitreCords Summer in the City show - NYC

Posted on August 28, 2010 in Interesting

http://hitrecord.org/records/182869

Too bad wordpress won't let you post embedded videos... that's so 2007


www: the origin of the BLINK tag

Posted on July 07, 2010 in Interesting

A very interesting story of the origins of the BLINK tag.


The Origins of the <Blink> Tag

I am widely credited as the inventor of the tag.   For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and …


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