YouTube Time is a website that makes it easy to skip to a specific time in a video. You can do this from a URL parameter but this website makes the process much easier. If only it would automatically embed the video and start at the designated time instead of creating the URL to copy and past back into your browser.
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Panic, makers of some of the best software for the Mac and famous for Transmit (FTP client) and Coda (CSS/HTML editor) finally announced a version for the iPad. Dubbed Diet Coda, it sounds like it’s going to be a fantastic app. Notable features of the app include syntax highlighting, server side file editing (more important than you might think), and even SSH Terminal support.
They also announced Coda 2 for the Mac. It, too, sounds pretty impressive. Better inline autocompletion, live previews, and MySQL support.
Both are 50% off for the first 24 hours of their launch on March 24 and seem completely worth it if you need that type of editor.
Sold!
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Someone estimated that the damage done to Manhattan in the move, The Avengers, would cost $160b (with a ‘B’) to fix. That’s a lot. But then they asked, who’s going to pay for all the repairs.
Turns out, unless someone gets generous, nobody.
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Yep. It’s happened.
Someone wrote a book on the history of tacos… the food.
Seriously, though, I don’t know if I could read 336 pages on it but I’m a sucker for history so the article was a good read. Here’s an excerpt of the excerpt at The Smithsonian:
“The origins of the taco are really unknown. My theory is that it dates from the 18th century and the silver mines in Mexico, because in those mines the word “taco” referred to the little charges they would use to excavate the ore. These were pieces of paper that they would wrap around gunpowder and insert into the holes they carved in the rock face. When you think about it, a chicken taquito with a good hot sauce is really a lot like a stick of dynamite. The first references [to the taco] in any sort of archive or dictionary come from the end of the 19th century. And one of the first types of tacos described is called tacos de minero—miner’s tacos. So the taco is not necessarily this age-old cultural expression; it’s not a food that goes back to time immemorial.”
I do love reading about the influence of other cultures – Lebanese, specifically – on the taco and how after 60 or so years, their influence finally became a mainstream mexican variation.
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