Interesting Reads

It's Friday and you didn't want to work anyway. Here's some things to check out while you wait for the weekend to arrive.

• Forensic scientists know too much about the cases they investigate


• Visualize Facebook IPO prospectus - Social-networking darling Facebook yesterday filed an epic initial public offering seeking to raise $5B with the company valued between $75B to $100B. Qian did a quick visualization of what their IPO prospectus (aka "Form S-1") says.


• The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face - Loved seeing the original sketches of those little icons that shaped my early computer experiences.


• Geeks and repetitive tasks - So true.


• Marek Potociar's slides at Devoxx on JAX-RS 2.0


• Pre-commit Tests - Keeping the trunk stable matters a lot at Wealthfront. Eyal wrote a post on running Pre-commit Tests before committing to your revision control.