If you were a fun of MrWong's Soup'Partments in the 2000's, then you'll feel some nostalgia for Chicken Street.
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Jun 30th: In a similar vein to my drunk kitchen, the katering show is worth watching. Only 6 short episodes to catch up on.
Jun 30th: Lucky peach's state of ramen edition is pretty great. It's been sitting in my tabs for 6 months now, so putting it here makes more sense.
I've been meaning to try my hand at making marinated soft-boiled eggs for a while too.
Jun 30th: After getting a one kilo cube of tungsten, I need to go deeper. Plutonium is dangerous and Platinum is crazy expensive, but what about Osmium?
Pixel tower, redux
Jun 26th: As a color blind human, this New Republic article on color perception is pretty interesting. The book is probably worth a read.
Jun 26th: This is one of the best pieces of technical writing I've seen - an implementation of (some of) Git in JavaScript, with a very well written inline description of what's going on.
On a slightly nerdier bent, this explanation of the packfile format is pretty great too.
May 12th: This article about the inclusion of AIM support in MSN messenger and the fight to obscure the protocol is pretty interested - also covers some Microsoft history and why some things are the way they are.
Closing Some Tabs
I'm closing out some 2014 tabs, so have a few useful links.
Want to make a game, but don't know how to get started? Sortingh.at is a great step-by-step resource.
Using Google Apps-for-business and group mail is bouncing? Follow these instructions to switch to "proper" groups.
Think you can recognize your developers from their commit messages? git-game turns it into a neat game where you try to figure out whose entire message was just "fuck" the most often.
Want a machine that make tortillas at the press of a button? I DO. flatev is the answer.
Chip Rainbows
Sure, In Rainbows is great. But it would be much better as 8-bit chiptunes, right?
Right!
Heavy Rotation
Think your local radio station plays the same songs over and over again? Think that it's getting worse over time? Then prove it with graphs!
This excellent analysis of Minnesota's The Current shows what can be done with a little bit of R code and some curisoity.
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