25 years of HyperCard — the missing link to the Web

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/

"I missed the mark with HyperCard," Atkinson lamented. "I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser."

HyperCard may not have been the first Web client, but as the 25th anniversary of its release approaches, I think that it deserves a more prominent place in the history of the Internet.

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Happy 75th Anniversary to the Golden Gate Bridge

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/the-golden-gate-bridge-turns-75/100306/

The Queen Mary 2 sails beneath the Golden Gate Bridge as it enters the harbor in San Francisco, on February 4, 2007. The ship, currently on an 81-day voyage around the world, is the largest vessel to ever sail into the San Francisco Bay. (Reuters/Robert Galbraith)

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How many Apple IDs should your family have?

http://gigaom.com/apple/how-many-apple-ids-should-your-family-have/

If your family owns multiple Apple devices and you have several different Apple IDs among you, it can become overwhelming or confusing or just plain maddening to figure out where your content is. It doesn’t have to be that way: To manage your media and app purchases more effectively, you may want to consider having a single family iTunes account.

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Functional Relational Programming with Cascalog

Quick survey of Datalog, Cascalog and other Functional Relational ideas:

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/02/03/functional-relational-programming-with-cascalog.html

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The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/18/the-story-of-the-secret-room-at-pixar-frequented-by-steve-jobs-and-many-other-celebrities/

It was a nook, really, created by the shape of the building around it and the needs of the air conditioning system when the company’s new headquarters were built. Animator Andrew Gordon discovered it while investigating a human-sized hatch in the back wall of his new office. After finding that the tunnel ended in a ‘lost space’, he decided to start decorating.

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50 Years Ago: An inspiration for the iPhone?

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1962/100296/#img03

Dr. John W. Mauchly, inventor of some of the original room-size electronic computers, poses in Washington, DC, on November 2, 1962 with one the size of a suitcase after addressing a meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. He now is working on a pocket variety which, he says, may eliminate the housewife's weekly shopping list and the chore of filling it by hand. He predicted everyone will be walking around with his own personalized computer within a decade. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

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Anatomy of a Reducer

Rich Hickey goes into some more details about reducers:

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/15/anatomy-of-reducer.html

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Reducers - A Library and Model for Collection Processing

Rich Hickey writes about:

the beginnings of a new Clojure library for higher-order manipulation of collections, based upon reduce and fold.

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/08/reducers-a-library-and-model-for-collectio...

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C2: Clojure(Script) data visualization

http://keminglabs.com/c2/

> C2 is a Clojure and ClojureScript data visualization library heavily inspired by Mike Bostock's Data Driven Documents.

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