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  • Chris Morris: Massive bosons blew my unit | Science | The Guardian
    "These concepts are not complicated by Cern standards. We are entering a zone which is weaponised to boggle."
    (tags: cern cms guardian physics chrismorris lhc )
  • al3x.net: al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
    Simple, straightforward, pretty much correct.
    (tags: computing software rules tips technology plaintext )
  • Rails, Textile, and javascript WYSIWYG roundup | Midnight Oil
    Yes, this is going to come in handy.
    (tags: wysiwyg web textile rubyonrails javascript editor richtext via:tomtaylor )
  • :: cleverdevil ::: Live Textile-Formatted Comment Preview
    "This javascript function can then read in the current content of the text area, format it using a trimmed down version of textile, and then set the content of a DIV with the resulting HTML. The end result of all this is live comment preview, with textile formatting." Live textile preview functionality.
    (tags: textile markup formatting javascript web development preview )
  • Gamasutra – Valve's Faliszek: Not All Game Stories Need 'Evil Masterminds'
    "Trying to over-explain the cause of a disaster often detracts from its more tangible impact. … Instead, Faliszek says, it is more effective to create resonant gameplay experiences that players will remember, particularly if the setting in question, such as a zombie invasion (or a tornado outbreak, for that matter) is already familiar." Why games don't always need tangible villains.
    (tags: games resonance left4dead valve story narrative technique )
  • Google Analytics, jQuery, and File Downloads
    A nice approach to doing some of the typical monitoring you'd want to do with Google Analytics, eg monitoring PDF downloads. I'm not totally convinced by some of his syntax, but the functionality is good, and the regex trick is nice.
    (tags: web development javascript jquery analytics googleanalytics tracking metrics )
  • MAKE: Blog: Nintoaster – a Nintendo in a toaster
    "It's just an Nintendo in a toaster, but I like it."
    (tags: nintendo homebrew make awesome games console nes famicom )

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