ARL Policy Notes: Bad Privacy News Data Dump
Lots of bad privacy news this week. Here’s a quick link-dump:
Senate intel folks may do a stealth re-auth of the dastardly FISA Amendments Act.
Lots of bad privacy news this week. Here’s a quick link-dump:
Senate intel folks may do a stealth re-auth of the dastardly FISA Amendments Act.
From the Hank Pym Photo Archives- Holiday Party, Stark Mansion, 1967
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One of our favorite things about the holiday season is the recap of the year in books! Publications, websites, and readers everywhere begin pulling together what they think is the cream of the crop — the best books of the year. Take a look below through some of the lists we’ve pulled together, and keep an eye here for additions to the list as we approach the end of this stellar literary year.
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
Items mentioned in the show:
- Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author
- 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework
- Formalize teaches your forms some manners
- An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
- Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box
- Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful
- Wynn
<3Mustache- Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it
- Haml means never looking for a missing
</div>ever again- The Changelog on Convore
- HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment
- Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS
- Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers
- Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing
- Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS
- reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes
- Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome
- rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby
- Inception explained in C code
- JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating
console.group- BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down)
- compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
- jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released
- Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project
- Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates
- The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing
- Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing
- Zeldman on designers who can’t code
- Adam loves the work of Mike Kus
- Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project
- Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me
- Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome
- Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred
- Nathan loves Alfred app
- Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar
- Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS
My friend Paul Higgins (@futuristpaul) saw the comments about a way for Freelancers to bank money pretax to be able to draw down when work is scarce, and offered this about the Australian Farm Management Deposits program:
I owe Sara a short precis of what her ‘New Mutualism’ might do for…
Welcome to the NYC Open Data Tumblr
As part of Mayor Bloomberg’s commitment to transparency and innovation, over 800 (and counting!) City datasets are now online for anyone in New York or around the world to explore and access via an API, for deeper, real-time integration into apps and…