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bzelip

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http://CUwiki.net | http://ToledoWiki.net

library & information science student, UIUC.

interested in free software and community representation online

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bzelip··on Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking
I don’t have any links, but a large area around Johannesburg, South Africa was dewatered as a result of diamond mining.
bzelip··on Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes
Plus, the connection ends around 9pm every night.
bzelip··on What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
Maybe “glamorous” means, “makes you want to drink”.
bzelip··on What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
Of course, the book is _much_ better.
bzelip··on Basscss – Low-level CSS toolkit
Yes there is a Sass build, see http://www.basscss.com/docs/guides/custom-builds/#sass
bzelip··on HelloJS – Client-side OAuth for JS
I really like adodson's web game. Check out http://adodson.com/#escape for browser MineField & Flood It.
bzelip··on The Tech Behind Dropbox’s New User Experience on Mobile, Part 2
The UX of this blog post on mobile (HTC One M8, kit Kat) forces a horizontal scroll to read all of the page's content.
bzelip··on Microjs: JavaScript Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries
interesting and useful content. nice presentation. this page will help me learn more about development by enumerating needs that exist and possible solutions.
bzelip··on Web Starter Kit
Here's an informative podcast by the Changelog that interviews a Dart author and a Dart outreach advocate, http://thechangelog.com/121/

tldr; it's more than compiling to JS.

bzelip··on Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
I'm not much of a programmer, but it's great to know about this guy. The diversity link someone posted here [0] is inspiring.

Off topic question about Aphyr's website: the stylesheet is linked to only as `<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css" />` How and why does this work?

[0]http://aphyr.com/diversity

bzelip··on Show HN: SlaveryStories.org – Memoirs from American Slaves
This is a great site. It correctly addresses the often-dense web spaces that make available many of the narratives. Good to see the modern web approach. And the instructional stuff on github is worthwhile.

I've shared it with the major African American Studies listserv, H-Afro-Am (http://www.h-net.org/~afro-am/)

bzelip··on Hover.css – A collection of CSS3-powered hover effects
My work monitors are crappy, rendering speech bubbles invisible. I'll look forward to checking this out on my own machine though. Checked out your personal site from here, nice work on Sequence.js! (http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/sequence-js-launch/)
bzelip··on Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review
and here's the HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854
bzelip··on “WarGames” Magazine Identified
Bravo.

I am surprised to see a pistol in the Apple ad in Figure 16.

bzelip··on YouTube Shoots Google in Foot, Publishers Suffer Collateral Damage
Here's a related and interesting article [1] titled 'Unraveling Google’s Product Strategy' from the author of a post that is linked to on the HN front page (Ode to Little Data)[2].

The author in this related article is really showing the total commitment to ads by google. I find it very unsettling.

[1]http://katsenblog.com/post/58721533658/unraveling-googles-pr... [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6782205

bzelip··on Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
i've gotten useful info via !yt comments, as well as had meaningful interactions.

the entire push to "use my real name" vis a vis my gmail account instead of my historical youtube account name, of which this new comments action is a part, bothers me.

also, it smells of an attempt out of desperation to beef up content on g+.

bzelip··on Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
The fontcombiner versions appear more appealing to me, more crisp and bold and weightier, than the G webfonts. iphone 4s, ios7.
bzelip··on Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
damn, i loved my dad's 380ZX soundsystem. its what turned me onto hi fidelity. neat to know it was named after someone and that he went to MIT. peace
bzelip··on Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts
Go home, you are drunk!
bzelip··on LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI
so disappointing when our generation(s) act to limit the Internet. LayerVault please stop, we really dig ur stuff.