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This is definitely a concept I can get behind. Promote JS is trying to get Javascript documentation better indexed by search engines. They are basically telling users to link to, or blog about, JS documentation. Hit up their site and check it out.

There has been what some would consider an epidemic of stink bugs in Pittsburgh this year. Everyone seems to hate them with an unholy passion, although they are harmless, and actually pretty chill bugs. I got this one to sit for me for about 20 minutes so I could draw him. Thanks buddy.

Anywho, I am a fan of stink bugs. Much better than the tent worm outbreak we had in the 90′s.

So I finally broke down and signed up for Netflix. My roommate has it and his life seemed too good to be true because of this weekly crimson DVD in the mail. My life has now waned to a driveling mess as I fulfill my movie addiction directly from my living room.

That aside, the first problem I realized was that my roommate and my queue’s were constantly crossing over one another. He would have a DVD out I had next in my queue, or vice versa. Or even worse, we’d have two of the same DVD at the same time!

My solution seemed clear and simple: Use the Netflix API to pull in a feed of both of our feeds, and then parse those feeds with jQeury, only to finally compare them and see where our overlapping tastes lie. Thus, the crossing of the streams would end. Hopefully.

I plan to share my findings along the way, so lets jump into part one of my tutorial on jQuery and the Neflix API. more…

So we added something pretty cool to the AE website today…

Originally built by Erik Andersson, and modified by our good ol pal Jake, this handy dandy JS snippet lets you blow up any element on the web. You can hit up the original Github page here.

Todd Agulnick announced yesterday that his bookmark syncing service, Xmarks, will shutdown at the start of 2011:

As I write this, it’s a typical Sunday here at Xmarks. The synchronization service continues operating quietly, the servers chugging along syncing browser data for our 2 million users across their 5 million desktops. The day isn’t over yet, but we’re on track to add just under 3000 new accounts today.

Tomorrow, however, will hardly be anything but typical, for tomorrow one of our engineers will start a script that will email each of our users to notify them that we’ll be ceasing operations in around 90 days.

Browsers have been getting closer to what I would consider acceptable bookmark syncing, but none have done it close to as well as Todd’s creation. Xmarks is a remarkable service, one that I would definitely pay a fair premium for. Its not often that we get such a product that fills a much needed niche in our web centric lives, and for FREE!

I would gladly drop an Andrew Jackson for Xmarks. Don’t give up!

Scan it!!!!111

This may not be news to some of you, and to some it may be a revelation. I had to make a QR code at work this morning, and I was playing around with some code generators. These things are pretty cool. Developed in 1994, these guys took off recently, because of the scanning ability by smart phones. You can even scan them straight from a computer screen, which is awesome. Try scanning the above code. It should take you stinogle.com. Using these things in marketing is a pretty ingenious idea, as you can go directly to a URL, or get an email or text based on the code you scan.

If you have a smart phone, try it out!