Plurib.us

It's Pictures From a Comet time.

arstechnica.com/science/2014/1...

Don't know why, but I'm kind of excited about this "phone".

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/0...

Inspirational, for the skeptical developer in me.

prog21.dadgum.com/197.html

The Universal Typeface Experiment is a project to create a typeface based on an average of handwritten samples. You can contribute!

Furthermore, you can see examples and averages split by gender, country, handedness, and industry.

Not sure why a comic with stick figures suddenly seems like the best medium for conveying this somewhat complex concept.

("Heartbleed" web vulnerability conveyed)
xkcd.com/1354/

Cartoonists Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics) and David Malki (of Wondermark) each keep "finding" terrible books that the other has written.

BOOKWAR!

World, Plurib.us has released its first phone app.  We give you Date Calculator 3000.

(...for all your date arithmetic needs!)

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Are you looking for a font whose glyphs discourage contemplation?

The font you want is Frustro.

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"wow"

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Sad Etsy Boyfriends

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2 new cautionary tales of online account attacks.  (None of these involve hacking passwords.  I guess they're strong enough now that they're not the low-hanging fruit anymore.)

arstechnica.com/security/2014/...
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Mystery on Mars!

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