Reblogged from NewsFeed:

"A few suggestions for breaking through event boundaries, on behalf of NewsFeed: mentally repeat the decision or action as you enter the room, announce what you’re about to do, or move to a one-room apartment."

In addition, MLS has given up on relying on the better angels of players’ nature to stop the diving and simulation American audiences so abhor. If a player tumbles to the ground without contact or feigns injury without being touched, he’ll be forced to write a check. If that action results in a goal or card that shows up in the box score, a suspension is likely as well.

Major League Soccer in the United States is taking a hard stance on diving. This is wonderful.

via MLS vs. the world: League takes unprecedented stand against diving, vicious tackles – SOCCER – Sporting News.

Reblogged from MAKE:

Here's the Video and PDF I used to build my homemade HDTV antenna. Still works great.

This is a little long, but it is brilliant. Bret Victor gives a presentation that not only demos some insanely cool software development tools, but with a worthwhile underlying message. If you have the time, take a look (and make sure to hit that full screen button).

(Via Coding Horror)

I’m not a logo designer, but I play one on the internet. I’ll just leave this here.

Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Deputy Ray Yee was the first officer on the scene in Dexter.

Yee approached one destroyed home Thursday, and saw a hand sticking out of the rubble. He pulled out an elderly man, who was shaken but walked away.

“That’s the best part,” Yee said. “Every place I went to, I would have thought I would have found somebody laying there — deceased or whatever. But, knock on wood, everybody was OK.”

Great to see the community coming together and the cleanup starting in earnest so quickly.

http://www.annarbor.com/news/dexter-tornado-damage-aftermath-schools/

There’s another venue where “It’s a Small World (After All)” is on continuous loop: the mind of anyone who hears it. The song is a common “earworm,” a piece of music that can easily get lodged in the auditory cortex, the part of the brain that retains audio information, identified by researchers at Dartmouth College in 2005.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/its-an-annoying-song-after-all/254429/

(via Metafilter)

For those of you more familiar with PHP, imagine a feature like register_globals, but instead of injecting arbitrary form data into the global namespace, it injects arbitrary form data into the database. It might as well be called opt-in SQL injection, but even that’s being too generous, because this is much easier to exploit than an SQL injection vulnerability.

Chris Shiflett ▪ Hacking Rails (and GitHub).

http://shiflett.org/blog/2012/mar/hacking-rails-and-github