Learning something new every day.

NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
Not typically known but true, especially when taking into account the pollutants that coal plants emit.
March 20, 2011
furbo.org – Twitterrific firsts
Third party clients have been at the forefront of the Twitter experience for many years, that differentiation and unique spin on the Twitter stream is what drove many of Twitter’s core functionality today.
March 15, 2011
Web Standards Sherpa – Stop Hiding Behind Products
Generic terms don’t help customers they just frustrate them.
March 15, 2011
apenwarr – Git is the next Unix
Git is a pretty cool piece technology.
March 14, 2011
The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
So basically Twitter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting official Twitter clients, so everyone else we’re coming after your business model, switch, differentiate or be dead in the water.
March 13, 2011
VeriFone – VeriFone Releases Open Letter to the Industry and Consumers
Let me explain how easy it is to get this same information had you card over to a waiter like you do everywhere.
March 13, 2011
Marco.org – Moving on from iPad “office productivity” apps
This makes a fair amount of sense and explains why I’m still not that interested in the iPad personally, casual media creation isn’t interesting to me.
March 13, 2011
Contrast – Designing your sign up page
The initial sign-up page is the hardest for me to judge in terms of effectiveness.
March 13, 2011
PhobosLab – The State of HTML5 Audio
I especially enjoy the specific complaints directed at Apple and Microsoft for only supporting MP3.
March 10, 2011
guardian.co.uk – Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug
As tends to be the case, so on your side Cory Doctorow.
March 8, 2011

Got any book recommendations?