- Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do …a letter from Michael Moore
- Obama Calls On Iowa + The Religious Right
- Spanning Sync v1.0b3 Now Available – sync is one of those apps where I don’t want to be in on the beta.
- Anil Dash: Pay By The Hour – awesome! (thanks John)
- Warren Buffett Talks Class Warfare
- Walled Garden, Not Going Away
- Economical Grids? – great post from Matt, I’m curious how the costs go up at 10x or 100x the scale. My understanding is that Grids can scale up larger a little easier. I could be wrong though.
- You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? – yay for Pulse.
- Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests
- Wii: first thoughts – this just sounds better and better.
- Jack Slocum’s Blog : Resizable Reloaded – A reusable component for resizing elements – wow, very slick! (thanks Ethan)
- Why Motivating People with Money Sucks – maybe not for motivation, but for attention and employment retention I think it’s essential. Otherwise, your self-starters start looking elsewhere.
- Day 2 With Google AdSense
My ultimate goal the last year and a half and with Google AdSense and independent consulting is to make enough independent income that I can freely create open source innovations, pursue ideas in the public interest without an employer wanting to control them, and create a more balanced lifestyle than is possible in a traditional computer job. This is why I created things like coworking, btw.
I should probably blog my thoughts on this topic at some point.
- [wp-hackers] Improving WordPress’ Performance WAS Changing MySQL minimum version – unfortunately, there’s a fair amount of truth in this.
- Steven Colbert Beats Women … with the Wii – Gizmodo
- Mod your Wii sensor bar to go wireless for $8 – Engadget – not sure I’d be brave enough for this, but if I got one it would be handy.
- Anti-Jotspot/Google Post Deleted Under Pressure – “take that post down” is pretty much a sure way to get folks to see it.
- Screencast: Ross Harmes’s YUI Bundle for Textmate
- [wp-hackers] Inline PHP doc comments – this is fantastic, perhaps I’ll start using Zend for my WP hacking as well (to take advantage of code hinting, etc.).
- [wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog – this should probably be put into the actual WP docs and on the development blog.
- Never Back to School
- Mike Beltzner: The New Media
- FAQTs – What is SCRIPT DEFER good for? – the Snap folks are using this, but it doesn’t seem to work all the time.
- The Gadgeteer – Apple iPod shuffle (2nd gen) – I wish I had a need for one of these.
- Don’t Fuck With Simple – interesting to see Yahoo spinning this as a win of sorts.
- For the True Fan, Baseball’s a Year Round Pursuit
- Kevin Rose confirms iPhone? – fun rumor, fun details.
Social 2.5
I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…