Shit Programmers Say.

An upcoming book by explores the French way of raising children. WSJ spoke to the author. Amen to this:

One of the keys to this education is the simple act of learning how to wait. It is why the French babies I meet mostly sleep through the night from two or three months old. Their parents don’t pick them up the second they start crying, allowing the babies to learn how to fall back asleep. It is also why French toddlers will sit happily at a restaurant. Rather than snacking all day like American children, they mostly have to wait until mealtime to eat. (French kids consistently have three meals a day and one snack around 4 p.m.)

This is despicable. US forces attack once from the sky and then attack again once mourners and rescuers arrive.

Whats the future of touchscreen navigation and UI? This video shows us whats possible.

Happy wednesday: Here’s some Office outtakes.

Brian Lam on happiness and the age of the internet.

“…clicking the like button 1 billion times will never give you an orgasm or a hug or a high five”.

A couple of dissenting views on my opinion of the megaupload shutdown:

Jonathan Coulton:

Along with all the illegal stuff happening on MegaUpload was some amount of completely legal stuff. People used MegaUpload to send large files around. Some number of those files were personal files owned by the people sending them. I have no idea what the ratio was, and probably it would be impossible to figure that out with any certainty, but let’s stipulate that it was a very large percentage of illegal activity, and only a very tiny percentage of the users were there for anything other than downloading content that they didn’t buy. Still, today that tiny percentage had something taken away from them, without warning, maybe just a service they liked using, but maybe a piece of digital media that belonged to them - if they uploaded something and didn’t keep a copy, that thing is now gone.

Julian Sanchez also has a good post about the larger SOPA / PIPA debate.