UtterlyBoring.com

• First off, we’re selling my wife’s old trombone, if anybody’s interested.
• Your Facebook account has three passwords.
• Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge.
• When Obama endorsed marriage equality…
• There’s No Time Like Today to Start Changing Things (for MovableType fans).
• The worst things for sale.
• Politwoops: Deleted tweets from politicians.
• Photoshop actions to fix the banding of Photoshop gradients.
• If all the earth’s water were put into a single sphere…
• Famous movie scenes in Lego.
• People Who Don’t Know How to Spell “Cologne”, instead spelling in “Colon.” Whoops…
• OKCupid Enemies.
• North Carolina banned gay marriage, but you can still marry your first cousin if you’d like.
• What if you removed the top million sites from Google? What would the results look like?
• Matt Groening confirms what we all knew: Springfield in The Simpsons is based on Springfield, Oregon.
• Depressed copywriter.
• GitHub releases Windows version.
• Something that should be implemented everywhere: Add Clippy to your website.

Since I gave my notice, I’ve been spending the last few weeks trying to finalize and document a metric ton of projects as well as find replacement(s) for the various work I do. Today was my last day in Sunriver, and it was with a bit of sadness that I left. While I’m looking forward to the new challenges and the people I’ll be working with, change is always a bit scary. But change sometimes has to be made, and I’m looking forward to a bit of change in my life. It was a bit weird removing a few e-mail accounts from Thunderbird.

Meanwhile, here’s some reading material that I’ve been sitting on for a while:

• 67 Books every Geek Should Read To Their Kids.
• If your site has a terms of service, making it easy to read like this is a good idea.
• This review for this product is absolutely hilarious.
• Bath image resizing made easy.
• Metafilter now has a “Best Of” blog.
• Zingiri Bookings is a nifty looking little online property booking app.
• The most common cooking mistakes
• Create your own election with the WaPo interactive tool.
• I’ve never played Monopoly this way, but it’s actually the right way to do it.
• Descriptive Camera: point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture and print a text description of the scene.
• Need an essay written? This should help you get a laugh.
• Fake S3 — Save time, money, and develop offline.
• Filepicker.io is a better upload dialog for the web.
• When you have an employee whose last name is Null, it can screw with programming.
• Parting out a UPS to provide battery backup to a critical sub-panel in your house.
• Fat Dogs are awesome!
• Gmail full? Clear out some big emails.
• Goodbye -9999px: A new CSS image replacement technique.
• The secret meeting that changes rap music and destroyed a generation.
• How computers boot up.
• How to access Gmail when its down.
• How to hack your own Wi-Fi network.
• How we use Trello and Google Docs to make UserVoice better every day.
• The new iPad’s screen under the microscope.
• Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours.
• Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews, Here’s How You Fix It.

More tomorrow, as I have a bunch of links I’ve collected.