Axodys 10C Edition

Fargo.io is the new incarnation of the web based outliner that Dave Winer and Kyle Shank have been working on since forming Small Picture back in December. The huge feature it debuts is DropBox integration. It’s simply a matter of authorizing the app and you can create, work on, and store opml outlines in your DropBox.

DropBox is looking less like a feature or a product, and more like a Cloud OS every day.

I think MultiMarkdown Composer 2.1 has been out since the middle of February, but I just realized it today and there are some pretty major additions.

MultiMarkdown Composer 2.1 has several exciting new 'big' features:

• Improved support for making the best of application sandboxing
• Support for tracking changes to a document and comparing different versions of a document
• Export directly to ePub

I'm particularly interested in trying out the last two features.

The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

Bruce Schneier:

We need to be angry and empathize with the victims without being scared. Our fears would play right into the perpetrators’ hands — and magnify the power of their victory for whichever goals whatever group behind this, still to be uncovered, has. We don’t have to be scared, and we’re not powerless. We actually have all the power here, and there’s one thing we can do to render terrorism ineffective: Refuse to be terrorized.

Jerry Brewer on David Stern's Seattle Suckerpunch:

At the end of another heartbreaking NBA result, David Stern taunted us.

"This is going to be short for me," he told reporters in Dallas on Wednesday. "I have a game to get to in Oklahoma City."

Ouch.

Ouch, indeed.

Fascinating story on Ars Technica about how a group of young engineers at Nasa have been studying the peerless F-1 Rocketdyne engines that powered the Saturn-V rockets that took us to the moon with an eye towards recreating updated versions using modern technology.

I've been using (and liking) forecast.io on my computer for a few weeks, but I didn't realize it was a fully functional mobile web app as well.

I’d go as far as to say the best weather App in the world right now is a web app. I may be biased, of course, but the fact that Forecast is even a contender is kind of a big deal. It raises the question: why aren’t there more high quality mobile web apps that have the look, feel, and performance of their native counterparts?

Between the forecast.io service itself and this recent blog post they're making a pretty good argument for a lot more innovation in the mobile web app space.

Got to try out Zeek’s Pizza tonight after we got checked into our hotel in Seattle and needed something a step above the usual road trip fast food fare. Well worth the short rainy walk from the hotel. The boys and I shared a Puget Pounder, Mary got an impressive salad, and Eawyn had a Hurricane (kudos on all the clever combo names). I’m already looking forward to eating our last two pieces tomorrow.

Just saw the news that John Scalzi and Tor’s novel serialization experiment, The Human Division, was successful enough that Tor picked up a second season. I’m totally behind on this series, but loved Old Man’s War] and The Ghost Brigades and have been meaning to get on board the fun. I think serialization had tons of potential in the ebook space so it’s great to see that being proven out.

The Coding Cookies blog recently started a 20 part series on building a Roguelike game in Javascript.

The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by level randomization, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Considered an obscure genre, most roguelikes are made on a non-commercial basis and only feature ASCII graphics…

[Roguelike page on Wikipedia]

Why do people who love reading love it so much?

Some pretty good answers to this question over at Quora.