Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• The EFF is trying to make emails to Congress more effective. Traditionally, hand-written letters have always been seen as more effective. Let's see if this has any effect.
• WatchMojo's Top 10 Business Killed by the Internet.
• 8-bit maps of cities.
• Some rants about potentially inflammatory words or phrases when talking about software, from Jeremy Miller

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• A platform to write apps in Ruby for ANY phone that uses SMS: Dumb Store.
• Password manager that doesn't actually store passwords: AnyHash.
• It took 54 years, but Xanadu is finally released as OpenXanadu.
• ECMAScript (aka the JavaScript spec) 6 is scheduled to be done by the end of this year. Of course, that doesn't really mean every browser will support every feature.
• Tetris was first created 30 years ago. 

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• Need a real API for demonstrating Ajax stuff? Check out The Example API. It provides all kinds of methods (GET, POST, etc), content responses (JSON, JSONP, XML, etc), response codes (404, 500, etc). Great for cross-domain testing, and it's what I used for my jsonp example post.
• Something to think about: Why Link Shorteners Harm Your Readers
• How to create better cards (in Pivotal, LeanKit, whatever card tracking/PM system you're using). I find the idea of gherkin/cucumber tests in the card to be an intriguing one.
• Need a dummy placeholder image? Use dummyimage.com to get them dynamically.

Ever experience the new wave? Next wave? Dream wave? Flava flav? A guy named Dave? Men's aftershave? A voodoo conclave? 12 Years a Slave? Shortwave? OR CYBERPUNK!? Ever stared at a CRT wistfully?

I didn't think so.

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• Microsoft Research presents Code Hunt, an in-browser game where you solve puzzles by writing code (C# or Java). It's pretty much TDD 101.
• In C#, When should I write a property? by Eric Lippert
• Who better to teach you Windows 95 than the star of The Whole Nine Yards and that waitress from Office Space?
• You kids and your hoola hoops and your cell phones and your baggy pants and your flappy birds and your...

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

Something a little different this week. Instead of some links, I'm just going to show you a funny presentation by James Mickens at the Monitorama Conference.

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