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I absolutely agree with xkcd on this one.

It is a really, really exciting time:

I am so glad ZeFrank is back on air (ok, yeah… disclaimer: I backed his Kickstarter for “A Show” so evened the odds a little… Ahem…).

Still, it leads to awesomeness like this so worth all the pennies. Enjoy.

Make yours a good self.

Cool little short about office life and the powers that rule it. Very accurate in my experience.

Even more impressively, all effects done on camera, no post sfx! And they won the Reed film competition Grand Prix.

via Geeks Are Sexy

Sure, they make it cutesy, but you have no idea how often this actually happens. Disaster recovery in most orgs is not given anywhere near the attention it deserves. If it can happen to Pixar, it can happen to you.

So, um… do your backups kids. And make sure you have offsite backups as well! I use Crashplan myself (which works on Win, Mac and Linux) though was using Haystack’s Arq on my Mac until very recently as well. Seriously, the minimal cost is nothing compared to losing photos or critical docs. Believe me.

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After getting a handle on it, I was really surprised that Twitter’s excellent Bootstrap UI framework didn’t have functionality to cover tabs on other pages of the site. Much like the slick ScrollSpy, where various menu items are highlighted when you scroll to their div id on the page, I was expecting a “PageSpy” type functionality to do the same with navigation tabs, and set a tab to active if the target url matched the URL the browser was on (especially since bootstrap does the more difficult in-page tab functionality. In fact, I was so surprised, I actually asked around and took a look at the js source code as I thought I was missing something obvious.

Utterly amazing visualization and animation of live wind flows across the US generated from the National Digital Forecast Database.

Oh and it’s interactive too. Impressive piece of work from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas .

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From NASA. An astounding visualization of all the currents of the world’s oceans. Amazing. And this isn’t even considering large scale phenomenon like the Great Thermohaline Conveyor .

Just look at it. Wow. Make sure to HD and full screen it for full effect.

In the vein of Dancing Matt , 5000 miles of hitchhiking the US and 930 people in 162 seconds. Dedicated to the people everywhere who will help out a “stranger.” Lurv.

Mythbusters’ Adam Savage talks about how simple ideas yield amazing revelations and how we’re all capable of them. Most discoverers “just thought a little bit harder and were a bit more curious.” Some great examples. From TEDEd.

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