1. Bloggbävning, n.
Definition: Literally translating to “blogquake,” the word describes the process by which a topic explodes in the blogosphere and is then picked by by more mainstream media outlets.
Used in an English sentence: “Man, that ‘ogooglebar’ thing really caused a bloggbävning today.”
Somehow I don’t think this post itself is going to Bloggbävning. Here are fourteen other Swedish words you should know, interesting throughout.
For the pointer I thank Josh Hausman.
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They laughed at me for wearing cargo pants, until they needed somewhere to put their lobsterphone. Now who’s laughing. Checkmate.
(I was unable to find this for sale anywhere, BTW, but you can’t say I didn’t try.)
This is a hollowed-out nickel which holds a microSD card. It’s a really covert and easy way to accidentally put 2GB of sensitive data into a parking meter.
There’s nothing wrong with masturbation. But this book tells you to jack off while you read it, to specific situations like a teacher being proud of you, or doing well at work. And you can’t just crank it a little and turn the page. You have to finish the job. To every single page of the book. Read the “Click To Look Inside!” to see what I’m talking about.
(By the way, this is not the first product I’ve written about where I’m 99% sure the creator thought of the title first.)
With the decreasing use of RSS readers over the last few years, which will probably be accelerated by Google Reader’s shutdown in July, many are bidding good riddance to a medium that they never used well.
RSS is easy to abuse. In 2011, I wrote Sane RSS usage:
You should be able to go on a disconnected vacation for three days, come back, and be able to skim most of your RSS-item titles reasonably without just giving up and marking all as read. You shouldn’t come back to hundreds or thousands of unread articles.
Yet that’s the most common complaint I hear about inbox-style RSS readers such as Google Reader, NetNewsWire, and Reeder: that people gave up on them because they were constantly filled with more unread items than they could handle.
If you’ve had that problem, you weren’t using inbox-style RSS readers properly. Abandoning the entire idea of the RSS-inbox model because of inbox overload is like boycotting an all-you-can-eat buffet forever because you once ate too much there.
As I said in that 2011 post:
RSS is best for following a large number of infrequently updated sites: sites that you’d never remember to check every day because they only post occasionally, and that your social-network friends won’t reliably find or link to.
Building on that, you shouldn’t accumulate thousands of unread items, because you shouldn’t subscribe to feeds that would generate that kind of unread volume.
If a site posts many items each day and you barely read any of them, delete that feed. If you find yourself hitting “Mark all as read” more than a couple of times for any feed, delete that feed. You won’t miss anything important. If they ever post anything great, enough people will link to it from elsewhere that you’ll still see it.
The true power of the RSS inbox is keeping you informed of new posts that you probably won’t see linked elsewhere, or that you really don’t want to miss if you scroll past a few hours of your Twitter timeline.
If you can’t think of any sites you read that fit that description, you should consider broadening your horizons. (Sorry, I can’t think of a nicer way to put that.)
Some of my RSS subscriptions that my Twitter people usually don’t link to: The Brief, xkcd’s What If, Bare Feats, Dan’s Data (and his blog), ignore the code, Joel on Software, One Foot Tsunami, NSHipster, Programming in the 21st Century, Neglected Potential, Collin Donnell, Squashed, Coyote Tracks, Mueller Pizza Lab, Best of MetaFilter, The Worst Things For Sale.
Many are interesting. Many are for professional development. Some are just fun.
But none of them update frequently enough that I’d remember to check them regularly. (I imagine many of my RSS subscribers would put my site on their versions of this list.) If RSS readers go away, I won’t suddenly start visiting all of these sites — I’ll probably just forget about most of them.
It’s not enough to interleave their posts into a “river” or “stream” paradigm, where only the most recent N items are shown in one big, combined, reverse-chronological list (much like a Twitter timeline), because many of them would get buried in the noise of higher-volume feeds and people’s tweets. The fundamental flaw in the stream paradigm is that items from different feeds don’t have equal value: I don’t mind missing a random New York Times post, but I’ll regret missing the only Dan’s Data post this month because it was buried under everyone’s basketball tweets and nobody else I follow will link to it later.
Without RSS readers, the long tail would be cut off. The rich would get richer: only the big-name sites get regular readership without RSS, so the smaller sites would only get scraps of occasional Twitter links from the few people who remember to check them regularly, and that number would dwindle.
Granted, this problem is mostly concentrated in the tech world where RSS readers really took off. But the tech world is huge, and it’s the world we’re in.
In a world where RSS readers are “dead”, it would be much harder for new sites to develop and maintain an audience, and it would be much harder for readers and writers to follow a diverse pool of ideas and source material. Both sides would do themselves a great disservice by promoting, accelerating, or glorifying the death of RSS readers.
Sharing links from Dropbox is great, but when you do so you're always throwing your username out there to the public. If that bothers you, Dropproxy is a webapp that hides your Dropbox username and creates a proxy address for sharing with the public. More » 
Cary Walkin, an accountant in Toronto, knows a thing or two about Excel. So great is his expertise that he was able to create a full-fledged RPG inside of its scripting environment, called Arena.Xlsm. I couldn't get it to run in LibreOffice, but it sounds like it's very featurful and fun, provided that you're willing to use Microsoft products:
* Random enemies: Over 2000 possible enemies with different AI abilities.
* Random items: 39 item modifiers result in over 1000 possible item combinations and attributes.
* An interesting story with 4 different endings depending on how the player has played the game.
* 8 boss encounters, each with their own tactics.
* 4 pre-programmed arenas followed by procedurally generated arenas. Each play-through has its own challenges.
* 31 Spells. There are many different strategies for success.
* 15 Unique items. Unique items have special properties and can only drop from specific enemies.
* 36 Achievements.
* This is all in a Microsoft Excel workbook.
Arena.Xlsm Released! (via Digg) 
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I’m trying to set up a phone conference with a client whose website I’m designing. I had sent him an email with my availability the day before. Note: I have a part time day job that I do my freelance work around.
Client: I need you to call me tomorrow at noon so we can go over more website details.
Me: Unfortunately, as I mentioned, I’m unavailable at that time tomorrow. How about 5pm? Or I’ll be available all day Thursday.
Client: No. None of that will do. Tomorrow at noon.
Me: Unfortunately, that is outside of my posted office hours, which I sent to you on Monday. You could always email me your requests, and I can contact you about them on Thursday?
Client: I don’t want to contact you on Thursday!
Me: Can I ask why Thursday won’t work for you?
Client: Because I don’t want to have to call you outside of my normal office hours!
Me: I see you mentioned you have very specific skill requirements for winning this bid. Could you elaborate on that?
Client: The winning designer must be very well versed in Magneto or other top brand e-commerce programs. We will be wanting payments online and Magneto or comparable program is the most important item.
Me: (stifling a laugh) Personally, I’ve always preferred Professor X. They’re equally matched, in my opinion.
Client: Oh, uh, okay, sounds good. I’ve heard great things about Professor X.
This guy had a knack for creative pronunciation, to put it politely. Some other gems were V3, Wordpunch, mySQUEAL (how he pronounced it), and jabascript.
After he submitted his design mockups to me in Excel, I passed on the project.
Subject: Need this started ASAP!
Message: I had to take an emergency trip to the Bahamas for a yoga meditation retreat. Can you get started right now, so I can have it by Monday?
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publicado em recortes por vitor dirami
Na primavera de 1967, em Palo Alto, Califórnia
(EUA), o professor Ron Jones recriou em uma sala de aula do ensino médio
o ambiente nazi fascista da Alemanha pouco antes da II Guerra Mundial. O
que era para ser apenas uma aula de história sobre o totalitarismo na
Alemanha nazista, acabou se tornando um experimento que deixou lições
inesquecíveis para todos, até os dias de hoje.
Hugo Barra, VP de Android
O Google finalmente anunciou a chegada do Nexus 4 ao país, em um evento que contou até com a presença do VP de Android, Hugo Barra.
O smartphone com Android puro é fabricado pela LG aqui no Brasil e será vendido por R$1.699 pelo modelo com 16GB – conforme vazado ontem pelo Ponto Frio… Ele vem equipado com processador Snapdragon S4 quad-core de 1,5 GHz, 2 GB de RAM, tela LCD (IPS) de 4,7 polegadas e 768×1280 pixels. A bateria tem 2.100 mAh e a câmera, 8 megapixels com retroiluminação traseira.
Por enquanto, não teremos os acessórios do Nexus 4 – como o carregador indutivo, mas a LG diz que considera trazê-los no futuro.
O Marcel tem relatado aqui suas experiências com um Nexus 4 comprado no exterior, mas ao contrário do Galaxy Nexus/Galaxy X, o modelo nacional não muda em nada. Por levar o nome Nexus, ele será atualizado diretamente pelo Google.
O aparelho estará a venda nas lojas físicas e online da Fast Shop e Pontofrio, além da loja online da Americanas.com – onde apareceu mais cedo para venda, mas curiosamente sumiu.
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