- Video: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
"Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids and spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer."
Tags: gevertulley, tinkeringschool, danger, dangerous, children, parenting, safety, experiments, science, learning, education - Firsthand Description of Waterboarding
"First I would google waterboarding to understand the basic concepts than I would try it on myself… It took me ten minutes to recover my senses once I tried this. I was shuddering in a corner, convinced I narrowly escaped killing myself."
Tags: waterboarding, torture, politics, psychology, war, us, bush, interrogation, terrorism - Three seasons of Lost summarized in eight minutes
This is pretty well done, actually. Also, when you summarize Lost, it sounds insane. "The explosion blew all of Desmond’s clothes off and now he can see the future."
Tags: lost, summary, video - Video: Star Wars Holiday Special in Five Minutes!
The 1978 two-hour Star Wars Holiday Special cut down to five festive minutes — and even that seems several minutes too long. This is truly unbearable.
Tags: starwars, holiday, special, lifeday, wookies, chewbacca, hansolo, lukeskywalker, video - Video: Coraline movie teaser
Neil Gaiman linked to a short clip from the upcoming 3D animated Coraline movie. Looks pretty good! I like that they’re picking a new artistic direction rather than animating Dave McKean’s art. While that would have been cool, this will probably get more
Tags: davemckean, neilgaiman, coraline, movies, 3d, animation, teaser, trailer, video - Dooce’s husband Jon talks about her depression
This should also be required reading: "Men like to be fixers, for the most part, and this is great for things like a clogged drain or dead car battery. It is not so great if your partner needs for you to help her by listening."
Tags: depression, mentalhealth, health, psychiatry, dooce, medicine, relationships - Dooce talks about her depression
This should be required reading: "I’ve watched several people around me suffer needlessly because they were either too afraid or too arrogant to take care of their mental health."
Tags: depression, mentalhealth, health, psychiatry, dooce, medicine - Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
The Internet Explorer team announced that IE8 passes the acid test! Great news if you’re a web standards nut like me - and if you’re not, just trust me that this is good for everyone.
Tags: ie, ie8, internetexplorer, microsoft, browsers, acidtest, css, standards - Hold Your Applause
"It was all over when they clapped. Any chance that anyone had of a restful, quiet 4-hour flight to Dallas was all over when the people in rows 18 through 20 clapped."
Tags: parenting, humor, children, singing, clapping, airplanes, flying, travel, vacation - Hobbit film confirmed!
"Looks like there will indeed be a Hobbit film and Peter Jackson is in (although not as director, at least not yet). The deal includes another film to be made that takes place between the end of The Hobbit but before LOTR." (via kottke)
Tags: jrrtolkien, lotr, hobbit, lordoftherings, peterjackson, movies, fantasy - A Visual Guide to Version Control
If you’ve ever been a little confused about what version control is, or why you might use it, this is a very well-written (and illustrated) guide.
Tags: versioncontrol, subversion, svn, cvs, tutorial, visual, guide, development - On Being Married to a Botanist
"Let me put this into terms you can understand: imagine if you went to a Star Trek convention and saw a bunch of people dressed as Jedi."
Tags: botany, humor, startrek, starwars, jedi, convention, comparison, holidays - Niggle — May 1st reboot: realign, redesign, etc.
An old CSS design reference I have bookmarked - love the treatment of code, quotes and pullquotes.
Tags: css, design, redesign, standards, web, reference
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