Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013

I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.

Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for some of you  Dear Readers. Therefore, I will still do the newsletter, but I'll post each newsletter to the blog some weeks later.

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Hi Interfriends,

Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up or sign down at http://www.tinyletter.com/hanselman and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

• If you like Science Fiction as much as I do, perhaps you'll like this Creative Commons anthology of "Muslims in Sci-Fi."
• I've been collecting crazy font-related thing lately, I'm not sure why but it's fun. Do you hate Comic Sans? There's many more fonts, ahem, typefaces, to hate.
• An absolute beginner's guide to Arduino. A lovely way to get an overview of how to program tiny computers. Also fun for the kiddies.
• Pardon the swear word, but FckYeahKeming is a great site full of kerning (bad kerning? Keming) that you won't be able to un-see.
• Why does Kerning matter? Well, many reasons.
• I wrote a blog post I'm very happy with called iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? that I submit for your approval.
• Great web comic that is evocative of Harry Potter. I suspect you'll lose several hours in the archives. If you do, support Gunnerkrigg Court.
• Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie. Really? Damn.
• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know.
• Brilliant interactive guide to Blog Typography. Really well done.
• Electronic toys from holidays long past http://imgur.com/a/FCVHV via Jeff Atwood
• My presentation from GOTO Conf on ASP.NET, jQuery and Mobile is up on YouTube.
• Learning to Let Go. First, Turn Off the Phone.
• Great for site designers. Need a placeholder image?
• Practice being a better Programmer at Programming Praxis.
• Cool and inexpensive home science experiments to blow your son or daughter's mind.
• When happens with an secure HTTP request in the first few milliseconds?
• Mavis Beacon was great, but there is room for Typing Practice for Programmers.

Scott Hanselman

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