This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions.

via List of Chromium Command Line Switches « Peter Beverloo.

Parlez-vous Python? What about Rails or JavaScript? Foreign languages tend to wax and wane in popularity, but the language du jour is computer code.

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet – NYTimes.com.

More screens! If I get to dream freely, I’d like a four-by-three setup of screens, for twelve in total from today’s six. The mounting starts to get pricey at that point, though, costing as much as or more than the monitors themselves.

via An interview with Rick Falkvinge.

Right off the top, “Furnace Skies” forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three’s ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of “The Pier” and “Rain Song,” they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in “Ashen Snow” and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.

• Jordan Mechner
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Nevermind the mystique; the actual mechanics of pour-overs are more or less those of a broken coffee pot: hot water slowly goes through coffee grounds, making only one cup of coffee at a time. That is all it is! It’s not magic.

via The Scourge Of Pour-Over Coffee | The Awl.

Transportation Staff are developing a Trails Report, and invite the cycling community to review staff recommendations prior to its submission to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee.

via City of Toronto: Cycling in Toronto – Bikeway Network.

A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads.

via ‘The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center’ – NYTimes.com.