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Hanselman newsletter thing
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<font class="content_text"><p>Hi Interfriends,</p>
<p>Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up at <a href="http://hanselman.com/newsletter">http://hanselman.com/newsletter</a> and the <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=Newsletter">archive of all previous Newsletters is here</a>.</p>
<p>Remember, you get the newsletter here first. This one will be posted to the blog as an archive in a few weeks. </p>
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<li>Did you know NerdCore is a musical style? Of course you did, and you appreciate it. I know you'll dig <a href="http://www.dalechase.com/2013/04/19/out-now-the-new-album-typedef/">Dale O. Chase's new album "TypeDef."</a> Be sure to explore the lyrics, they are brilliant. You can <a href="http://dchase.bandcamp.com/album/typedef">listen online for free and name your price</a>. </li>
<li>Great presentation deck from Garann Means about what happens <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/garann/bacon-is-bad-for-you">when developers become a collection of tropes</a>. </li>
<li>What happens when you <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/21/177949605/a-wet-towel-in-space-is-not-like-a-wet-towel-on-earth?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130421">wring out a wet towel whilst in space</a>? </li>
<li>Wonderful 60's era documentary on YouTube <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/04/24/how-the-pirates-of-the-caribbe.html">about how the Pirates of the Caribbean came to be</a>.  </li>
<li>How to make <a href="http://blog.clojurewerkz.org/blog/2013/04/20/how-to-make-your-open-source-project-really-awesome/">YOUR open source project really awesome</a>. </li>
<li>I enjoy reading <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Spring2011FictionReadingListYoungAdultEBooksWillSaveScienceFiction.aspx">Young Adult Fiction</a>. It's my pulp. Easy to read and relaxing. Here's a good <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20568393,00.html">list of the (kind of) latest</a>. </li>
<li>"A web designer <a href="https://twitter.com/jzy/status/323514258421854208">walks into a bar</a>, but immediately leaves in disgust upon noticing the tables layout." </li>
<li>So you're a web designers who loves CSS but you also love the British. Why not <a href="http://spiffingcss.com/">http://spiffingcss.com/</a>? </li>
<li>Comedian Patton Oswalt <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5BBhNkywMJY#">filibusters on Parks and Recreation</a>. </li>
<li>Here's a cute animation that <a href="http://io9.com/all-of-star-wars-episode-iv-retold-in-a-one-minute-ani-476687295">shows all of Star Wars in just one minute</a>! Fun for the kids. </li>
<li>Thinking of getting a new fancy smart watch? There's <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/6/4069812/microsoft-bill-buxton-smartwatch-history">nearly 40 years of history behind them</a>. </li>
<li>Do you love Sriracha hot sauce? Here's <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/12/business/la-fi-himi-tran-20130414">the guy behind it</a>. </li>
<li>This guy has <a href="http://www.amazedsaint.com/2013/04/hack-raspberry-pi-how-to-build.html">.NET running on a $35 Raspberry Pi</a>. </li>
<li>I love charts, graphs and visualizations. I like stacked bar charts, so how about <a href="http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/12/16/flame-graphs/">Flame Graphs</a>? </li>
<li><a href="http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx">Tearable cloth simulation in raw JavaScript</a>, thereby cementing that I have NO idea what I'm doing. </li>
<li>Sometimes the best packaging <a href="http://i.imgur.com/j0BToSw.jpg">is the most clever</a>, but not the most expensive. </li>
<li>Of the 100 richest people in the world, 8 had no family money nor a degree. How <a href="http://fundersandfounders.com/how-much-sweat-it-takes-from-zero-to-billionaire/">did they do it</a>? </li>
<li>Finally, don't forget that the free community-organized DotNetConf is streaming live the 25th and 26th. Videos will be recorded and available.</li>
</ul><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Scott Hanselman</span><br />
<p>(BTW, since you *love* email you can subscribe to my blog via email here: <a href="http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselman">http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselman</a> DO IT!)</p>
<p>P.P.S. You know you can forward this to your friends, right? </p>
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