5 Year Old Sings Own Side Now by Caitlin Rose

Her phrasing and dynamics are dead on. Her little-girl-ness is adorable.

Space Shuttle Booster Cam!

Amazing video of the February 24th launch from cameras mounted to Discovery’s solid rocket boosters. From lift-off to splashdown, you see the WHOLE thing! Notable shots at 2:26, 6:04, 10:10, and 28:06.

Really incredible perspective.

Space Shuttle Discovery Launch as Viewed From an Airplane

Discovery’s final launch captured on video from inside an airplane. So very cool.The Captain bought a round for everyone to celebrate.

How to Play In Someone Else’s Band

Danny Barnes has one of the best music blogs I have ever read. This piece is worth it’s weight in gigs. The message:

play great and be easy to get along with

HTML5 - A technical specification for Web developers

The WHATWG’s HTML5 specification for web developers. Your new instruction manual.

Greta Christina's Definitive Answer To Pascal's Wager

The most illogical, impractical, yet common of all arguments for belief in gods thoroughly discredited once and for all. Direct all future abuses to this URL.

Esperanza Spalding wins best new artist Grammy

She beat Justin Bieber. What? The Grammy’s are real?! Is there hope for pop music again?

Paul Irish on HTML5 Boilerplate

Some amazing tricks in here. I checked out the HTML5 Boilerplate months ago, but thought it was pretty overkill for my taste. There is definitely reason to reconsider now.

Popular Mechanics Q&A with Billy Nye The Science Guy

Money quote:

You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

(via @thinkgeek + @sanbeiji)

Esperanza Spalding does Winter Sun on Letterman

She’s touring with a bad ass almost all-girl band. She is so dreamy. (via The Upton Report)

Charile Louvin Has Died at 83

Frannie Kelley for NPR:

The singer, who was born Charlie Elzer Loudermilk and became well known as one-half of the country and western duo The Louvin Brothers, died Wednesday morning. Louvin, who had continued to perform even as he battled pancreatic cancer, died at home in Wartrace, Tenn. He was 83 years old.

I never saw him play.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on AZPBS's Horizon

One of Carl Sagan’s lesser-recognized gifts to mankind was nurturing this man’s excitement of the cosmos. If you aren’t already a fan of Dr. Tyson, this video will convert you. If you are a fan, you’re probably already raising your kids to be just like him when they grow up. Just enjoy the interview.

jQuery File Upload

A jQuery-powered, multi-file upload widget that gracefully degrades for clients without javascript. (via Jake Bellacera)

Sonic Youth and The Black Keys on Austin City Limits

Kim Gordon is 57 years old, ladies and gentlemen.

Creating Great Typeface Combinations

A great primer for combining typefaces from Douglas Bonneville at Smashing Magazine. Very useful in this brave new world of @font-face. (via Scott Pargett)

Patton Oswalt makes a case for retaking our okatu by fueling the fire of etewaf

When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted. We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.

And his message is packed to the rim with nerd-culture references that would make Seth MacFarlane blush.

CSS3 Toggle Button

Simurai has created a toggle button that uses CSS3 and zero javascript. Next level shit.

The Oatmeal: How to make your shopping cart suck less

“Don’t use some home-brew CAPTCHA syste that requires compound eyes to read.”

Create tag icons for your tags with no images

I was unaware of the CSS triangles technique! Bad ass!

Photoshop Etiquette for Web Designers

A pretty, passive aggressive website on preparing Photoshop documents for developers.

John Gruber asks questions regarding Google dropping h.264 support for Chrome

I’m not a fan of Google’s decision. I’d rather browser vendors supported open source and established open standards.

Isaac Asimov on the Greenhouse Effect: 1989

We are putting more and more carbon dioxide into the air while decimating more and more of the forests that consume it. Isaac Asimov had been studying this greenhouse effect for 20 years prior to this speech.

Neil Degrasse Tyson clears up the tides for Bill O'Reilly

Bill O’Reilly played his tides go in, tides go out card again the other day on his show. Neil Degrasse Tyson made a surprise appearance on the Colbert Report to clear up the confusion for America. The segment starts at 11:00.

Google doesn't use the keyword meta tag

This issue has been coming up for projects lately. I thought it was time for a reminder.

iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds

A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.

Enjoyment level was comparable with printed books. I find this to be true in my experience:

Users felt that reading the printed book was more relaxing than using electronic devices.

I love technology and reading on the iPhone and Kindle, but I also love printed books. I struggle with which format to buy every time. I should avoid the dilemma and just get a library card.