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Missed opportunity to call the successor `whodat`

We’ve been using https://MJML.io and Handlebars and owning the rendering on our end. It’s been a breeze.

If you're interested in prions and some heavy science, I would highly recommend reading the research blogs of Eric and Sonia.

http://www.cureffi.org/ and http://www.prionalliance.org/blog/

> Wife-husband team Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel are on a very personal mission to find a cure to prion diseases. When Sonia was diagnosed as a genetic carrier of a rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), she and Eric quit their regular jobs and began studying molecular biology to learn as much as they could.

Theirs is an incredible story so far. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...

Yes! And the results have been outstanding! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...

It's more like the Polish Acquisition.

Radiolab had a fascinating segment on US blood banks and how cutthroat the blood economy can be. In many cases, your local blood bank might be arbitraging blood from different areas of the country.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/308780-blood-banks/

Nobody goes there anymore.

Reading the post, it just seemed like an interesting and feasible challenge, as well as a learning opportunity — not an ideological purity test.

Real bugs don't have fancy websites. http://heartbleed.com

It's so amazing that it works! (Donor here as well.) I would love to see the support system expanded. Even with the recipient's insurance footing the bill for the surgery, there's still a significant burden on donors to be able to provide the time off to do the transplant in many cases.

I'm starting with my own state to help find ways to lower that threshold for potential donors here: https://www.change.org/p/minnesota-state-house-give-minnesot...

My new favorite trap is the MOUNTWEAZEL, a lexicographical trap street embedded in dictionaries to catch infringers.

Good episode of the The Allusionist podcast: http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/mountweazel

No up-selling travel insurance? They're leaving money on the launchpad.

How did he arm the darn thing without setting it off?

This is perfect timing. I've had a back-burnered project waiting for a response from the API folks.

Not to mention the tell-tale flight paths: http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/newscut/files/20...

via http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/05/mysterious-plane-ha...

White Bear

Exactly as much good as Bill Watterson wanted it to.

This looks great.

Here's the best Sublime replacement icon I've found: http://dewith.com/2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/

It's in the form of a book, which is a companion to an exhibition of his work at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449460364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

Honest question: Why do you feel entitled to more of his work?

I believe it's more useful to be thankful for something that was given than to be angry that you didn't get more.

Watterson:

> This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte...

A measly 1,826,163% since 1964. SELL.

Robots don't have a sense of humor.

And the article is about how voice recognition is just in its infancy.

It is a well known fact that one can deduce the quality of a software product simply by the the number that comes after its name.

Pronounced 'bee-peg'?

And Jo-Ann Fabric: http://www.joann.com

Worth watching again, the introduction to the Wolfram language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik

MacWorld was such a big part of my childhood, and a catalyst for why I'm able to make a living making things on the web today.

I hope the talented writers and editors who've been laid off get snapped up quickly.