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Friday Links #261

Programming

Later.js
Goo Demo
Radio Buttons with AngularJS
Announcing Angular Kendo UI
Dan Wahlin’s Tech Tips - Google+
NET 4.5.1 Is Bigger Than It Appears
An Unbiased Comparison of F# and Scala - Tim Kellogg
Get the latest .NET Bits - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Please welcome ImmutableArray - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Convention-based HTTP API on top of Nancy (with documentation!) - Paul Stovell
OzCode: Introducing OzCode–Your Road to Magical Debugging (formerly BugAid)
No More Memory Fragmentation on the .NET Large Object Heap – MarioHewardt - MSDN Blogs

Applications

Science and Technology

Kreyos Meteor smartwatch brings Star Trek tech to life
The 2014 Mazda3 Will Have A Head-Up Display | Popular Science
Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever | Popular Science
Mystery solved: meteorite caused Tunguska devastation | Ars Technica
New technology from MIT may enable cheap, color, holographic video displays

On the Web

Add Images as Attachments via Drag and Drop in Gmail
AOL Launches Google Reader Replacement Just In Time For Google Reader’s Shutdown [Updates]

Stuff I Just Like

The Evolution of Superman
America the Beautiful: 50 States in 50 Photos
The Surprising History of the Pencil | Brain Pickings
Twinkies, Ho Hos, other Hostess brands return July 15 - latimes.com
Pegasus Review: The Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Reinvented | Popular Science

Favorite Tweets

Neil deGrasse Tyson - If Bears ruled the world, I wonder if they would care whether or not the Humans they mauled were free-range.

Ryan CrawCour - I must be a real dev, i just used Fiddler

jeremydmiller - Sometimes I think that git was designed with the tried and true “throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks”, only nothing ever fell

stacia l. brown - If you get bored reading what you just wrote, it’s not ready.