Many of us AFOL's (Adult Fans of LEGO) wonder, what's up with the crazy prices of LEGO?

Reality Prose has our answer:

Overall? LEGO is not "more expensive than ever before", it just feels like it:

>Now, the dream set is closer to the $400 range. It doesn't mean that LEGO doesn't make sub-$100 sets. They do, and more than ever. It just means that in comparison the $25 set looks a lot smaller than it did when the largest set was only $100. LEGO pricing has become a victim of its own expanding market.

I've been using Markdown for years now as my blogging format of choice. I've used it in Wordpress, Movable Type, Typepad, Jekyll & Octopress, and now Markbox.

I <heart> Markdown.

Thanks, John!

@holdenweb cf. parenting

@destraynor this is because of the inverse relationship between effort and effortlessness.

RT @siracusa: Me: How are you doing?

Daughter: This hand still smells like throw-up. <thrusts palm into my face>

RT @EvanJGregory: I'm like 1000% behind the decision to carve out some public broadcast channels for free public wi-fi.

@jacobian ooohhmyyyy.wav

I'm testing out a basic IFTTT recipe that reposts monkinetic posts to my app.net account.

Update: Sorry I didn't realize when I made the recipe that it was going to grab the last n existing posts and repost them as well. Whoops. Thankfully it only reposted the last 3 posts.

So, like a sheep, I install the latest Adobe Flash (bleagh) this morning so I can watch the Superb Owl Iron Man 3 commercial, since Adobe's being a snot and pigging backing on the Superb Owl's popularity to get more Flash installs out there, and I see this:

Since when does Flash install Chrome? /me Googles

Apparently, since at least August of 2012 accordion to this Adobe Forum post:

>For regularly scheduled Flash Player releases, such as our 11.4 release, users are notified of new features included in the release and may opt to download the latest player via http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer. This workflow allows users to optionally download software from select Adobe partners along with Flash Player. Adobe offsets the ongoing development costs of Flash Player, which is made available for free, by offering users these options. Bundling Google Chrome and Toolbar???

Hm.

RT @thomasfuchs: As a programmer, never underestimate your ability to come up with ridiculously complex solutions for simple problems.

RT @MediaReDEF: Two Very Early Concert Films of R.E.M., Live in ‘81 and ‘82 http://t.co/hVsz9xF6

RT @markboxapp: Blog: "Paging Dr. Pagination..." http://t.co/LX4hdjni

RT @crucially: That magic moment when all the pointer magic math comes together into an amazingly efficient fast and insane solution.

RT @SiliconANGLE: Big Data Search Engines Are Big Right Now – Stremor Announces Heuristic Engine http://t.co/z5cq3Jyh

@ericflo In moderate amounts, it's useful as the meta data in Markdown. cf. Jekyll, Octopress, Pelican, @markboxapp

> Three things you should be wary of,
A new kid in his prime,
A man with all the answers,
And code that runs first time.

• @deurig on app.net, quoting Threes Rev 1.1 by Duane Elms and Leslie Fish.

My CTO often severs the Gordian Knot of regex with judicious application of split(). Mad respect.

> Finally, I suspect that if I made a sandwich out of this stuff and Nutella, I might very well translate bodily into heaven.

Scalzi has Bischoff cookie spread.

@lmorchard I am so dying. ROTFLLFTTLFLing.

SteamPunk #weldingclass http://t.co/7b1yo9qT