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The irregular musings of Lou Montulli: The reasoning behind Web Cookies A brief history of web cookies by the man who invented them

So though this is a fine time to push the politics of scandal — because occasionally, politics is substantive — it would be more constructive for the GOP to push for tax and IRS reform. David Harsanyi, Let’s Get the IRS Out of the Speech Business

The progressive answer to this is more rules and regulators, more agencies and safeguards and accountability projects. Republicans should recognize this intervention for the ridiculousness it is – creating more federal entities to watch over federal entities – and focus their arguments instead on the only solution which will actually work: removing power from the […]

What happened at the IRS is the government’s essential business. The IRS case deserves and calls out for an independent counsel, fully armed with all that position’s powers. Only then will stables that badly need to be cleaned, be cleaned. Everyone involved in this abuse of power should pay a price, because if they don’t, […]

Very funny! Why am I just finding out about this now? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Using Icon Fonts | Go Make Things Nice description of icon fonts and how to use them

government-service-design-manual/service-manual/making-software/progressive-enhancement Nice run explanation of progressive enhancement and the rationale behind it

A Rocket To Nowhere (Idle Words) Most of the really wrong design decisions in the Shuttle system — the side-mounted orbiter, solid rocket boosters, lack of air-breathing engines, no escape system, fragile heat protection — were the direct fallout of this design phase, when tight budgets and onerous Air Force requirements forced engineers to improvise […]

Funny commercial for the Nokia Lumia 920

Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media — the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the internet, we had almost nothing that […]

Color Pickers – Nathan Speller Color picker that shows color palettes based on images from Dribbble

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