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Best things in the world

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FreakAngels, an episodic webcomic by Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield. It's free to read online. It's stupidly high-quality. It's in print on Amazon.com. If you like good graphic novels you owe it to yourself to read this, and the archives are now deep enough that you can sit down for a few hours and get up to speed.
The 960.gs grid system. I'm fine with code and I can think in grids, but working out all the krunky stuff to make a complex layout work in IE, Firefox, and the rest? That feels like pain. The 960 grid sacrifices some semantics and locks you into a static layout, but it means you can work fast and focus on results. I'm hooked.
Magic Hat. I've never seen it around before, but they've got it freakin' everywhere here in Providence. Yum.
$99 iPhones. I guess that's the last of my excuses, once August rolls around and the end of my Sprint plan comes up.
The MIT Museum. @mettamatt and I saw robots and sculptures and old hand-wired LISP machines, and it was crazy. I want to be a mechanical engineer when I grow up, and I have a new and profound respect for electrical engineers, the tribe my dad comes from. They had to make their 64K of RAM out of a washing machine full of copper wire, and they liked it.
The glorious and gorgeous Catherine. I love traveling and hanging out with the Lullabots and the rest of the Drupal world, but coming home and seeing her after a week on the road is a wonderful thing. Hooray for home!

The lie is A LIE — 8 hours ago
Ev's keynote feels like Twitter: three minutes in, there's cool news, a phone glitch, and the mic failed. #sxsw — 19 hours ago
Hot rumor: O'Reilly is saving the panda bear for "chatroulette: the definitive guide." — 1 day ago
Only you can prevent hipster fires — 2 days ago
On a bed with@jjeff in a fireball shooting rv with 20 people singing karaoke "tiny dancer" - would not have predicted this — 2 days ago

Papirteksturer — Super-gorgeous high res paper textures in a language I don't understand.
jQTouch — A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
SPECWEAPS — CLASSIFICATION SAPPHIRE VORPAL JULIET POTUS EYES ONLY .
freesound — A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Free foley in a box, browse-able by collection.
Opentape — A free way to make and host your own web mixtape. Simple, clean, effective.
Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free — The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright interest in software you've written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain.
The Americanization of Mental Illness — "There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we’ve been exporting our Western 'symptom repertoire' as well."
In Defense of Lorem Ipsum — "Lorem Ipsum is one of those things like silicone breast implants or orange spray cheese in a can that just seems wrong..."
The New Cavemen Lifestyle — "Mr. Averbukh is a pre-Promethean sort of caveman. Much of his nourishment comes from grass-fed ground beef, which he eats raw. In a bow to the times, he sometimes uses a fork." Because vegan is way to bourgeois.
TufteGraph — Make pretty graphs with javascript, using jQuery. Supports slick tricks like stacked graphs with multipliers and other trimmings.