Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: June 4th, 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 June 4th.

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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• French, but awesome animated gifs about les joies du code.
• MakeyMakey, an invention kit for everyone.
• Ah, yes, Google StreetView Maps for Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City.
• How to make great slides for presentations.
• MRuby - The Ruby Interpreter, written in C, then compiled to pure JavaScript and running in the browser. Someone did Lua also!
• We now have a font for Sarcasm.
• Are you coming to the next Angle Brackets conference for lovers of the web? It's in October and we've got Douglas Crockford!
• A "Thank You" can change your life.
• Did you know you could build a native Windows 8 app with Angular and JavaScript?
• Great presentation on Browser Versions. Stop detecting them, and instead check for features!
• Fans made a 40 min additional movie on Lord of the Rings! Low budget, but a labor of love.
• I still think Google Glass is gonna suck, no matter what famous people say.
• Is the end of the school year stressing your parenting skills?
• Polymer looks really compelling if you're thinking about the Web and Web Components.
• A popup book...made of LEGO.
• A 2000-piece LEGO Ewok Village?!? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
• Great lesson video for the kids on how feathers evolved.
• Looking for a room in New York? Why not get http://www.worstroom.com/? via my friend Rashid
• Here's a required Code of Conduct for going to a movie (PDF).
• Take great movie stills and extract their color swatches. Strangely compelling.
• Some SERIOUS geeking out if you're a diabetic and/or a hardware person!

Scott Hanselman

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