Learning something new every day.

Automated Photo Collage Maker: Shape Collage Pretty cool. (tags: photography collage software design) Google Code Blog: Doug Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts JavaScript is a screwy language but one that can be good. (tags: google javascript programming webdevelopment) Paid posts should not affect search engines Paid posts are bad for the quality of search engines. […]

Less is more approach to fertiliser could boost farmers – environment – 16 February 2009 – New Scientist Sometimes more fertilizer isn't the best option. (tags: farming argiculture china research science) Scientists losing war of words over climate change – environment – 10 February 2009 – New Scientist Research shows that the public underestimates the […]

Seth's Blog: Three things you need if you want more customers "1. A group of possible customers you can identify and reach. 2. A group with a problem they want to solve using your solution. 3. A group with the desire and ability to spend money to solve that problem." Good advice. (tags: business advertising […]

Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers | TorrentFreak This is a pretty cool story. (tags: law legal bittorrent piratebay thepiratebay p2p) 10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine What makes a good portfolio on the web? (tags: internet programming webdesign css business personal design)

IconDock — A Simpler Shopping Cart « Usability Post This is a neat way to do a shopping cart. (tags: ecommerce css design webdesign usability ui userinterface) Do Mathematicians Eat the World’s Tastiest Breakfasts? | Discoblog | Discover Magazine What is the perfect formula for the world's best pancake. (tags: pancake food cooking mathematics) Slipknot […]

Penny Arcade! – The Ecology Of The Suburban Thug Where do you get your cinna-on at? (tags: humor pennyarcade webcomics) Two dudes hugging – Feministing Don't you love it when pundits make comments about the same exact stuff that happened in other presidencies but never said anything bofore that. (tags: stupid politics feminism gender sexual) […]

Handle 1 Billion Events Per Day Using a Memory Grid | High Scalability Main way to scale to that large of a system: "database centric –> cache centric –> memory grid" (tags: webdevelopment programming performance scalability cache database) Poll: Politicians trusted more than business leaders on economy – CNN.com Interesting poll especially when it came […]

Startups in 13 Sentences The 13 sentences that your startup should follow through on. (tags: startup business entrepreneurship) BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Likely' US Commerce chief named Do we finally have a Commerce Secretary, in the form of Former Washington Governor Gary Locke? (tags: secofcommerce usa politics obama) Findings – Politics in the Guise […]

Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way | High Scalability What are some simplistic yet good rules to build a scalable site? (tags: scalability database webdevelopment programming compression performance)

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Clinton urges stronger China ties "Hillary Clinton has called for a deeper US-China partnership, on her first overseas tour as US secretary of state." Who could have guessed. (tags: hillaryclinton politics china usa environment economy humanrights tibet freedom communism) U.S. Concedes Afghan Attack Mainly Killed Civilians – NYTimes.com "An airstrike […]