The Metro Developer Show is the first podcast exclusively for Metro developers and enthusiasts.
Each week Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk traverse the exciting world of Metro (phone, tablet, desktop and Xbox); covering the latest news and exploring what it means for the developer community and everyday users.
Web app for making diagrams like Visio. Export your results as SVG, PNG, PDF and others.
Unlike Inception, running a JS engine in a JS engine does not make the inner JS engine go faster.
A House subcommittee has passed the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), which would require disclosure from companies about their human rights practices and limit the export of technologies that “serve the primary purpose of” facilitating government surveillance or censorship to countries designated as “Internet-restricting.”
Specifically Twitter has said that they will only used these assigned patent rights defensively to protect themselves against hostile actions. And further that any company that acquires these patent rights from Twitter will need the inventor’s consent to use them in an offensive action. Twitter has also provided the inventor with certain rights to license the patent to others for defensive purposes. You can read the entire set of provisions on GitHub.
The Dancebulance - Gov Ball 2012 Lineup (by nathanjbarnatt)
Another Nathan Barnatt video with awesome music and dance moves. Also enjoying the music video for third song in this video “Barbara Streisand” by Duck Sauce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_zwdmz0hE
Another Comedy Bang Bang preview clip this time with Zach Galifianakis.
Domino’s Pizza Safe Sound - Menselijk motorgeluid voor elektrische scooter (by DominosPizzaNL)
Can’t stop laughing. Someone better get a promotion.
Windows RT is the name of the Win8 ARM SKU? That’s funny because its also the Windows Runtime: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211377
Javascript tool says if a photo is shopped. It can tell by looking at the pixels. Seriously. Links to cool presentation on the theory behind the algorithm behind the tool: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/bh-usa-07-krawetz.pdf
Primer - Full Movie (by mvjstrikesagain).
This movie is great. There’s really no excuse now - Primer is on YouTube for free. Best representation and exploration of time travel in a movie.
In short, Marriott is injecting JavaScript into the HTML of every webpage its hotel customers view for the purpose of injecting ads (and in the meantime, breaking YouTube).
On The Verge, Joshua Topolsky interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Badass meme which results in animated GIFs ready for meme-ification. Including this one from BrettBrown of Joshua calling it.
“On The Verge is ready for a lot of things, but we clearly weren’t ready for renowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who stopped by to talk space exploration, life as a meme, and why he carries a slightly-illegal laser with him at all times.”
Field producer Melissa Galvez speaks to Susan Crawford, Micah Sifry, Nicco Mele, and others to find out how the grassroots campaign to bring down SOPA/PIPA was built, and what it says about organizing on the internet.
Intro to the world of the 0day exploit market.
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