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Yes, MQL really was an eloquent query language, especially when writing JavaScript for the browser. For the curious, most of the documentation seems to be gone, but there are a few…

My 4-year-old is really into The Foos app. In the beginning he was just messing around but after a month or two he's really getting it. I was wondering what to use next, thanks for…

The article presents some great 'explorable explanations' by (or inspired by) Bret Victor. This really does seem like the future of communicating hard concepts. At high school I wo…

I highly recommend the Handmade Hero series referred to in this blog post. I've been following the archives on YouTube (at 2x speed). Casey Muratori is an engaging presenter and I'…

Very generous offer. Any chance of ? will.ww.com --> ww.hamstersoup.com I know you excluded one letter domains but w.ww.com would be even cooler ;-) Bedankt!

I was about to start a big project on App Engine, so your comment is worrying. Anybody else having reliability problems with GAE or is this just an isolated case?

The slider serves as a simple privacy reminder on your home page. It only takes a few moments at youropenbook.org to make it clear that many people could benefit from such a remind…

I had forgotten the sliders: http://www.designaesthetic.com/2007/07/17/facebooks-ridiculo... I don't think they were a privacy control, just a (complex) way of mixing your newsfeed…

Here's an example of the fig leaf in action: http://willmoffat.github.com/FacebookSearch/?q=HIV%20test&#3... We decided the redactions reduce the impact without actually offering a…

(disclaimer, I worked on this) Facebook has focused on the social graph, Freebase connects people and more. We liked the lightweight approach of the Graph API, so here's our versio…