- Backbone.js is a model-view-controller JavaScript library in just 4KB (via Boris Smus
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- SparkFun intros IOIO, which allows Android phones to control DIY electronics. (Engadget)
- Everyone in Google Doodle for Charlie Chaplin’s birthday are part of Doodle team, and like many of Chaplin’s films, it was filmed in the Niles District of Fremont, California. More from CNN.
- IBM launches Maqetta, an HTML 5 tool as an open-source answer to Flash and Silverlight. (eWeek via Jeff Pierce )
- The White House launches a personalized tax receipt (Macon Phillips of the White House, via Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post )
- I’ve often had this very same thought: Tim Pawlenty wants members of Congress to do their own taxes without help. New York Times article
- Mister Rogers defends PBS in front of the US Senate in 1969. (via @Noetic_Hatter )
- The Story of Linux: a 4-minute video commemorating 20 years of the Linux operating system (via Mario Fusco )
- Jen Mankoff, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor with Lyme disease, tries to make sense of Lyme info online (via James Landay )
- Barack Obama: “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending $1 trillion on tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires.”