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"Closure Compiler, Closure Library, Closure Templates, and Closure Inspector all started as 20% projects and hundreds of Googlers have contributed thousands of patches. Today, each Closure Tool has grown to be a key part of the JavaScript infrastructure behind web apps at Google. That's why we're particularly excited (and humbled) to open source them to encourage and support web development outside Google." - Greg Veen

"These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicates which characters are together at a given time." - Greg Veen

"Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the photo to see the relative difference between a coffee bean and an atom." via @svenliden. - Greg Veen

"A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th)." - Greg Veen

"Summing up: Only use @font-face is you’re absolutely certain you need it. If you have multiple font files, consider sharding them across multiple domains. Don’t include unused @font-face declarations - IE will download them whether they’re used or not. Gzip the font files and give them a future Expires header. Consider lazy loading the font files, at least in IE." - Greg Veen

"Summing up: Only use @font-face is you’re absolutely certain you need it. If you have multiple font files, consider sharding them across multiple domains. Don’t include unused @font-face declarations - IE will download them whether they’re used or not. Gzip the font files and give them a future Expires header. Consider lazy loading the font files, at least in IE." - Greg Veen

"FOUT is what I'm calling the flash of unstyled text that you get while using @font-face in Firefox and Opera." - Greg Veen

"Bagheera kiplingi, a South American species, lives almost exclusively on leaf buds and is thought to be the only spider of about 40,000 species to have rejected a carnivorous diet." - Greg Veen

"You can certainly be a Mission hipster or Silly Valley type and have a wonderful experience here. But to do so you have to get off Valencia street and make some friends outside of the industry. You have to figure out what drew people here in the first place before it became populated by those stereotypes. It's a great place to live. But you'll never know that unless you truly live here." - Greg Veen

"Less is Leaner css. Less extends css by adding: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules." - Greg Veen

"Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike,[1] was a Wyandotte rooster that lived for 18 months after its head had been cut off." - Greg Veen

"Finally, there’s a use for all those LPs that have been collecting dust in your closet: sleeveface! It’s a website, a book and a phenomenon in which, with the right album cover, the right lighting and perspective, and a little luck, you can create one of these:" - Greg Veen

"Each time they deploy a new version of their site, their script triggers a Litmus test of their pages, using the A-grade browsers recommended by Yahoo." - Greg Veen

"Amid all the wealth and glamour of the Cote d'Azur, a British zombie movie made for just £45 could be the surprise success story of the Cannes Film Festival." - Greg Veen

"I attempted to replicate the piece with the lyrics to one of our favorite songs – Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”. This was the result!" - Greg Veen

"Swedish design company Humans Since 1982 has created a prototype of a digital clock from 24 analog alarm clocks, whose hands come together to create a digital display of the time." - Greg Veen

"A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this." - Greg Veen

"axono.me is a lightweight open source Javascript isometric pixel art grid library." - Greg Veen

"I have used regular tent pegs hundreds of times and have been extremely dissatisfied. A great, simple alternative I've been using the last five years is to wrap or tape up a handful of large screws (8-inch or so) available from any hardware shop." - Greg Veen

"You have probably seen these forms of advertisings where you can peel a corner of a website and see a message underneath. It seems most are flash driven, but I decided to try it out using some simple lines of jQuery." - Greg Veen

Three friends of mine are producing this. Check out that logo! "Bakon Vodka is a superior quality potato vodka with a savory bacon flavor. It’s clean, crisp, and delicious." - Greg Veen

"Vauban, Germany, is an affluent new suburban community that differs from traditional suburbs in many respects. The most important difference is that cars are forbidden on most of Vauban's streets, and houses cannot have driveways or garages." - Greg Veen

"I wondered if it would be possible to extract travel information from people’s public Twitter streams by searching for the term ‘Just landed in…’" - Greg Veen

"Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done." - Greg Veen

"You probably know her as “The Colonel” or the girl with the pink helmet who rides about 1.3 million miles each year. You’ve honestly never met a happier person on a bike." - Greg Veen

"watch the american housing market spiral out of control." - Greg Veen

"Fashion is telling us that the world has not changed much -- not yet. And I have news for you. Unless you're 10-15 years old right now, that's good news. Because when it changes, you're not going to like it. It's going to change into something you won't like one bit. That's how you know it's real change. Everybody over 15 is revolted by it." - Greg Veen

"Delightful Frenchman Remi Gaillard - the man behind that Mario Kart video from a few months back - returns, in what can only be dubbed 'Pac-Man meets Jackass'." - Greg Veen

"Delightful Frenchman Remi Gaillard - the man behind that Mario Kart video from a few months back - returns, in what can only be dubbed 'Pac-Man meets Jackass'." - Greg Veen

"Your backbeats were 1/16th off on the 44th measure. You have greatly shamed Rush." - Greg Veen

"The Netherlands are a special case when it comes to traffic signs…" - Greg Veen