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The personal website of Alex Weber

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Mostly links from around the web, presented with quotes and commentary. Sometimes I write long-form pieces too.

Posted on 20120316

Want To Travel Yet Lazy? These Posters Will Teach You How

via TAXI Daily News

New York-based illustrator H. Caldwell Turner has come up with a series of vintage posters that gives lazy people tips on how to travel from the comfo… Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

From Satire To Singles: Former President Of The Onion Is Running A New Dating Site

via SAI

Take men. Add women. Put a computer between them. What’s the perfect background to bring these three together? Eight years as … Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

Speech synthesizer in 1K of Javascript

via Boing Boing

Mathieu ‘P01’ Henri, a French Web developer, has produced a functional speech synthesizer in 1k of JavaScript. It’s an entry in the fourth JS1K compet… Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you’ll watch all year

via Boing Boing

This may just be the best TED Talk video I’ve seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction autho… Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

How To Receive Push Notifications From iPhone And iPad On Your Mac Or Windows PC

via Redmond Pie

For those among us who are Mac OS X users, you will no doubt be familiar with the Growl notification service. Growl is … Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

TSA Precheck: $100 application fee to skip the song and dance

via Boing Boing

The TSA has announced a new program rolling out at a few airports that allows selected customers to skip the security lines by checking in at a kiosk … Read More >>

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Posted on 20120316

California is OK

via Boing Boing

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Posted on 20120316

3 Steps To Pursuing Your Ideal Career

via Fast Company

There’s often a gap between identifying what you naturally gravitate toward and gain energy from and how that translates into your full-time work. Tak… Read More >>

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Posted on 20120315

AllThingsD: Google diggs Kevin Rose (updated)

via Engadget

You might know Kevin Rose from his days at TechTV, as the cofounder of the social news website digg.com, or from his awesome drunken (and sometimes qu… Read More >>

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Posted on 20120314

Developing for Windows 8: Photobucket app creators talk Metro

via Ars Technica

With Windows 8 and its radically redesigned Metro interface, Microsoft is offering software developers a new set of challenges and opportunities. Rath… Read More >>

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