Stuff I Found Interesting This Week

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This nails the reason why constant interruption absolutely kills programmer productivity.

If it's alternative energy, it's on this wiki.

NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.

Very cool little web app for building CSS grids.

Contribute to test results of how embedded figure tests are tied to juxtopositional thinking.

I'm sorry, but chocolate, peanut butter AND cream cheese is just more than my willpower can withstand.

I'm constantly looking for better ways to get a peek at the contents of objects in C#. Maybe this will help.

They may not make them like they used to, but that doesn't mean you can't.

Letterpress that uses a 6 ton bottle jack and bungee cords to make prints.

The guide takes you on your new speech-enabled adventure, as you'll learn to mix text with speech into a simple program that synthesizes XHTML transitional blog posts into the Wave format - for your iPod - using SAPI 5.3 and encodes them into the Windows