Which do you prefer, Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act?

Maybe you hate Obamacare because it’s socialist and/or unfair to hard working American citizens…

Or maybe you support the President and his new law…

What about the Affordable Care Act ? Sounds attractive…after all who is against affordable health care for hardworking Americans ?

Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian and notorious prankster, wanted an answer to this important question so he recently took to the streets with his film crew to ask the American public.

The answer he found was quite surprising… many Americans prefer he Affordable Care Act over the odious Obamacare…not realizing…

They are the same thing.

You can watch the video here.

**For another hilarious/disheartening video on the uninformed citizenry, listen to Howard Stern’s street interview in the run up to the 2012 presidential election.  Apparently, many believed that President Obama was a Mormon, Congressman Paul Ryan was an African-American, and Osama bin Laden was still alive.

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Cool Hyperlapse video of Bath’s Georgian streets – http://vimeo.com/75873515  via @netmag

Good story about creating watches for the blind people: How your product can benefit from user feedback http://depot.ly/puKUo  #ux

“Works for me” doesn’t mean “works for everyone” http://depot.ly/puKvn

If you love http://BuySellAds.com  as much as we do, you may be able to work for them, check this: http://depot.ly/pty1v

Some design trend data from @dribbble http://depot.ly/psgw9  via @iconfinder

Polish your Photoshop skills with this tutorial: How To Draw a Vintage Polaroid Camera Icon http://depot.ly/psg80

Better way to add Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and any other external scripts http://depot.ly/psfX5

Awesome motion design by Metin Akcakoca http://depot.ly/ppSEX

What is Adobe Camera RAW? http://depot.ly/ppSpz

Why people don’t find features in your app or website, and why they don’t even try: http://depot.ly/ppS9F  via @iconfinder

US government shutdown kicks NASA and other agencies off the internet http://depot.ly/ppQAi

Google Chrome Redesign & New Tab Page Rolls Out To All http://depot.ly/ppQs3  via @TechCrunch

.@UICloud redesigned its website. Check it out. http://ui-cloud.com

Here’s The Complete Guide to What’s New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 http://depot.ly/pnj3D  /@tutsplus

Why Designers Need to Craft Words Not Pixels >> http://depot.ly/pnio4

GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started http://depot.ly/pnhZr  *Good article from @RWW by @laureninspace

Have you checked https://www.google.com/webdesigner/  yet?

Ironic Serif: A Brief History of Typographic Snark and the Failed Crusade for an Irony Mark http://depot.ly/pkWE8

Great plans for your design career? What happened? http://depot.ly/pkXyc

Information entropy illustrated: The 1.2 Billion Faces of Facebook: http://app.thefacesoffacebook.com

Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

CrossOver: Run 1000s of Windows Titles on your Mac – only $24!

To the Barracades!

That’s what it feels like in Washington these days as Republicans and Democrats hurl abuse, trade blame and hunker down in for aprolonged PR war.

How’s the war going?

Polls showing more Americans are blaming Congressional Republicans for the shutdown.  

At present, the Senate Democrats and the White House are holding fast to their pledge not to negotiate over funding the government.

Republicans are trying a different strategy… demanding that parts of the law be delayed or repealed instead. This way they cast themselves as the reasonable ones, compromising in the face of Democratic intransigence.

Interesting strategy…after all didn’t our civics classes teach us that compromise is the way laws are made in a nation?

True…but…

Not all offers to compromise are legitimate.  Republicans have made an unusually outrageous demand from the start:  defund a law (Affordable Care Act) that was decided on three years ago without theselves having earned the proper electoral mandate to do so.

Jon Steward made an apt comparison of the Republican demands to the currently failing NT Giants football team…imagine the Giants, He says, demanding more points well after the end of the game, or else they’ll shutdown the whole NFL.

Stewart adds:

Thankfully, our professional sports teams are more civil and intelligent than our elected officials

Furthermore if Democrats succumb to such a strategy, Republicans would be emboldened to rewrite other laws every time the government needed funding.

This would essentially give a minority party unrestrained legislative power… despite the fact that the American people gave a majority of the legislative power to Democrats in the 2012 elections by electing a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president.

Thomas L. Friedman put it best in his recent New York Times editorial claiming that the health and legitimacy of our democratic process is at stake in this conflict:

If democracy means anything, it means that, if you are outvoted, you accept the results and prepare for the next election. Republicans are refusing to do that. It shows contempt for the democratic process. President Obama is not defending health care. He’s defending the health of our democracy. Every American who cherishes that should stand with him.

 What do you think? Have Republicans pushed obstruction to the limit, or are Democrats being unreasonable? Let us know in the comments section below!

A few of us at Codecademy spent the weekend at MIT for HackMIT - a hackathon involving over 1000 college students from around the world. It's been an awesome experience seeing so many coders in one location hacking away at amazing projects.

The atmosphere inspired us to start hacking ourselves. For our hack, we decided to programmatically find the most active Codecademy users at HackMIT and give them some love and swag.

By querying our database for all of the emails of attendees at HackMIT, we were able to find all the Codecademy users in attendance. We then sorted the list of users by points and achievements to find the top 3 most active Codecademy users at HackMIT.

Here is a photo of us with our top HackMIT user - spiltpeasoup!

We were surprised to find out that over 25% of hackers at HackMIT have a Codecademy account! If you are at HackMIT this weekend, stop by and say hi!

A few of us at Codecademy spent the weekend at MIT for HackMIT - a hackathon involving over 1000 college students from around the world. It's been an awesome experience seeing so many coders in one location hacking away at amazing projects.

The atmosphere inspired us to start hacking ourselves. For our hack, we decided to programmatically find the most active Codecademy users at HackMIT and give them some love and swag.

By querying our database for all of the emails of attendees at HackMIT, we were able to find all the Codecademy users in attendance. We then sorted the list of users by points and achievements to find the top 3 most active Codecademy users at HackMIT.

Here is a photo of us with our top HackMIT user - spiltpeasoup!

We were surprised to find out that over 25% of hackers at HackMIT have a Codecademy account! If you are at HackMIT this weekend, stop by and say hi!