A speech recognition toolkit for Arduino. Fighting the urge to pair this with my robovoice speech chip and make a vocal chatbot.

Someone should make a removable 3D printable bracket that does this, maybe with some optional padding to kill a mic as well?

Didn’t see that one coming. I use Instapaper every single day, and I hope this keeps Instapaper around for a long time and frees up Marco to make more new stuff. From his post:

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.

I’ve been in a similar place before; having a successful project that can continue growing but needs a bigger team and more resources, but you don’t want to make it your entire career. Marco, it seems, felt similarly before he made the decision to sell.

Our children will look upon Guantanamo Bay with the same sheepish, embarrassed, confused, eye that we look upon the rounding up of Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar during World War II. If we’re lucky.

It is brutal, it is inhuman, and it is the antithesis of the very ideals our country was founded upon. The existence of America’s (torture) detention facility in Guantanamo Bay makes me feel sick to my stomach and rotten to my core. We should be ashamed of ourselves, and so much more than that.

Federal agents have forced the Oregon Public Health Division to turn over an untold number of patients’ medical marijuana records, according to court records recently uncovered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

These people just want to be able to have their medicine and not be afraid, and this is EXACTLY why a lot of people on the lefty fringe are against legalizing Marijuana in the first place. They’re afraid of being on “some government list” just like this one.

Now that they know where you live the feds can break down the door at any moment and arrest you, charge you with a federal crime, seize all of your property, etc.

“Console.log with Style”

Works in Chrome, pretty cool. A little verbose for my tastes but definitely better than the default.

Remember when we all lost our shit over Panic’s awesome in-house status board? Well they released it on the App Store today. $10.

You can even create your own data sources by following this doc. I’m sure the docs will be available as a non-PDF soon enough.

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

Been looking for something like this for YEARS now. Hope it’s good.

Short answer: No. Long answer: No, but nobody takes advice like this no matter how good it is.

A self-hosted, open source, Pinterest clone. Built with Python, from the looks of it.

This is part 1 in a series that explains how BitCoin works. It’s good on technical details without trying to break your brain if you aren’t a programmer or researcher.

That’s a lot of acronyms, and I’m not entirely sure what makes this special yet but boy it sounds impressive.

Expect them.

I’d like nothing more than to see this succeed, and I agree with John Gruber’s simple assessment:

It would be a win for everyone if Servo did to WebKit what WebKit did to Gecko.

I will, however, be very disappointed if the logo doesn’t somehow evoke the image of Tom Servo from MST3k.

The creator of the previously-linked (and awesome) lo-fi fantasy tile set has opened a store for making / selling licenses for new ones. I applaud this. Make money on your art.

If you’re a Comcast user, every web page you visit has this Comcast tracking code injected into it. Man, Comcast writes really shitty Javascript.

I’m not sure how I haven’t linked to this before, but here it is now. This needs to exist and I’m so glad it does.

The only good weather website I’ve ever seen in my life. They deserve a medal.

Noisebridge is probably the most well-known and completely insane hackerspace in America. Not even the inmates run the asylum, and it is amazing. Everyone from vector math geniuses to government spooks hang out there. For free. Now they need some help.

I gave ‘em my $10. Pledge yourself.

The EFF is on the right side of this one, if there was any doubt:

All too often, technology companies have raced against each other to build restrictive tangleware that suits Hollywood’s whims, selling out their users in the process. But open Web standards are an antidote to that dynamic, and it would be a terrible mistake for the Web community to leave the door open for Hollywood’s gangrenous anti-technology culture to infect W3C standards. It would undermine the very purposes for which HTML5 exists: to build an open-ecosystem alternatives to all the functionality that is missing in previous web standards, without the problems of device limitations, platform incompatibility, and non-transparency that were created by platforms like Flash. HTML5 was supposed to be better than Flash, and excluding DRM is exactly what would make it better.

Adding DRM to HTML5 would absolutely enable new web apps to be made, but guess what: The kind of apps it would enable are across-the-board worse apps than the apps that we already build without DRM. A vote for DRM is a vote for worse in every possible way.