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Interesting stuff for February 8th, 2012

Path: "It is also stored securely on our servers using industry standard firewall technology." has to be my favorite bit of PR techspeak nonsense in a while.
Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures: Some of the best default avatars I've seen. Love the painterly look.
Impossible – Making film for Polaroid cameras: These guys spun up a shop to keep making film for the Polaroid after Kodak stopped making it. Crazy free market.
Marshmallow Launch at the White House Science Fair: Air cannons FTW
Identity at Mozilla: New(?) take on single sign-on for the web, integrated into Firefox.

17th-century mistakes, pt 1 « Peter Follansbee, joiner’s notes: The eye is forgiving. If you make a mistake, just keep going.
Bug 394769 – setTimeout/setInterval "lateness" argument breaks expected behavior: RT @kangax: setTimeout/setInterval "lateness" argument gone from FF — Got bitten by it in the past.
Letter from China: How Did Hoekstra Get So Much Wrong?: What a moron.
Red tape: On doing business in Albany
Nobody gives a fuck about Superman.: Great rant on the death of superman

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101 Cookbooks – Healthy Recipe Journal: A collection of recipes using natural foods
Overflow – a secret benefit: Careful reading of the spec allows for a very neat clearfix trick.
CSS playground: Impressive set of UI features done in pure CSS3
Scifri Videos: Where’s The Octopus?: Now that's camo. I'd scream too.
US Postal Service "Hacked" Ad: yes, because having tens to hundreds of people physically handle sensitive information is way more secure.

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Playing with WordPress for Android 2.

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