The Weekly Squeak - Cypherium, loss in the age of the cloud and fantasy islands

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The IdealFuture Dragonfly Futurefön seemed too good to be true. Then Indiegogo backers lost $700,000 — and its creator, Jeff Batio, was charged with fraud.

Frisland never existed, but for centuries, people wanted to believe that it did.

It's been hot. I've had a lot of Ice cream. This is Halva ice cream 😋

jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.

Myspace admitting the loss of a large portion of user data was just another reminder that nothing "in the cloud" is necessarily for ever.