Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 2nd, 2013

I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

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Here's the newsletter that I sent out July 2nd.

Hi Interfriends,

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 http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

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• Nicolas Cage's "Lincoln" Audition Reel ;)
• Teacher wears same outfit for 40 years for the yearbook picture
• Yelp generates a Heat Map based on the word "hipster" so now you know where they are.
• Games of Thrones scenes in LEGO
• What if Shakespeare wrote Star Wars?
• Turns out that the Garfield comics are funny if you remove Garfield. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
• There is an abandoned island in the middle of New York. Pictures here.
• Fantastic Ted Talk by Reggie Watts crossing poetry and music.
• What if you took all the redesigns of websites and phone operating systems and put them in one place? http://uninvitedredesigns.com
• Dust off your Raspberry Pi and get some Retro Gaming set up for the kids.
• Painting with Tetris. One day I'll know enough math to understand this.
• My BUILD talk on "What's new in ASP.NET" is recorded and up on Channel 9.
• David Peterson on developing the fake Dothraki language.
• Have you listened to my show with Luvvie? It's Ratchet and The Geek!
• I need to try this.
• Keep your receipts, in case you're accused of murder.
• 10 New Features in Windows 8.1 Preview that saved my Surface RT
• Options aren't always a good idea, some checkboxes can kill your product.

Scott Hanselman

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