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See another solar system! These are real images of a 4-planet system ~130 light-years from #Earth. Read about it: http://go.nasa.gov/2kySSt1 

The band name alone is worth it. Mariachi Entertainment System's Mariachi Medley https://youtu.be/JpKVXBk_6r0 

I'm going to pretend that The Circle is a sequel to Antitrust http://kottke.org/16/12/trailer-for-the-circle …

Creating an extension for all browsers: #msedge, #chrome, #firefox, #opera & #brave: https://www.davrous.com/2016/12/07/creating-an-extension-for-all-browsers-edge-chrome-firefox-opera-brave/ …

OH. MY. GOD. @SethBling MADE AN ATARI 2600 EMULATOR IN MINECRAFT. https://youtu.be/5nViIUfDMJg 

XSS: the game http://buff.ly/2gGghdI 

The lasting damage done by Tump's 'voter fraud' allegations: http://theatln.tc/2gczqDz 

This is best piece of Superman art I've seen in a long time, made by Brakken http://brakken.tumblr.com 

A free album of Beastie Boys remixes using Daft Punk samples http://kottke.org/16/11/beastie-boys-daft-punk-mashup …

Just fun: draw a sketch and see how fast a Google neural net takes to figure out what it is https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/# 

Chrome Canary has enabled scroll anchoring which prevents “jumps” when the layout above the viewport changes (demo: https://output.jsbin.com/parujo/quiet#heading2 …)

@David_Risney Example graph https://raw.githubusercontent.com/david-risney/WinMDGraph/master/examples/3/3.dot.png … of the Windows .Services.Maps namespace

WinMDGraph graphs relationships between WinRT APIs https://github.com/david-risney/WinMDGraph/ …. My initial version is up.

@FakeUnicode At least some of that is from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 . For unreserved characters (a-z0-9._-~) normal form is decoded.

Parsing WinRT metadata (winmd files) is much easier than last time I tried. There's support in .NET reflection APIs https://deletethis.net/dave/2016-11/Parsing+WinMD+with+.NET+reflection+APIs …

The static on TV is referred to as “hangyafoci” by Hungarians, which translates to “ant soccer” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(video) …

Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual. How to Subvert Organizations with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) http://bit.ly/2dbnooU 

Only Child written by @hodgman is amazing & hilarious. Although also showed me various ways in which I'm not special http://www.maximumfun.org/dead-pilots-society/episode-2-only-child-written-john-hodgman …

Surprised ICANN doc doesn't cover intranet name collisions issues http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/dns-stability-draft-paper-06feb08.pdf … Does consider file ext collisions: no problem... https://twitter.com/kpyke/status/789156391726387200 …

It is difficult for me to not retweet everything this twitter account says. https://twitter.com/CRASH__N__BURN/status/786653239768940546 …