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Kottke says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness… with more than just links. Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they have a plan.

  1. Blooging find: Mapping Hacks, a great blog on the intersection of mapping and technology, is companion to the book of the same name.

  2. What do you get when you make a White Russian with horchata instead of milk? A White Mexican.

  3. Market Correction, a new blog from Andy Morriss and Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux, in which they record their various letters to editors of newspapers and magazines, usually attempting to correct pieces of mistaken economic or legal analysis.

  4. Some bizarre news, via Charlie’s Diary:

  5. By now you’ve all read about Google’s filtering of search results in China. Get this: they’ve removed their help entry on censorship, replacing it with a 404 page. I guess their revised motto might be You can don’t make enough money without doing evil.

  6. I’ve been playing with Joe Hewitt’s FireBug for the past few days. It’s definitely so alpha it hurts, but it’s got great potential. The XMLHttpRequest spy alone is already saving me hours of debugging time.

  7. Terre Haute’s best restaurant, Pino’s Il Sonetto, is closing next month. I suppose it was only a matter of time, after Pino died, but it’s still sad.

  8. Joe Grossberg looks at Hamas’ victory in an Only Nixon could go to China light. I hope he’s right, but I have my doubts.

  9. I have no idea what to make of this reference to my blog.

  10. The history of Comic Sans MS

  11. Two years ago, Bill Gates said that two years from now, spam will be solved.

  12. Alex King's blog desperately needs to have higher contrast between its text color and its background color.

  13. People often assume that Yahoo! moving Viaweb off of Lisp, and Sony moving Naughty Dog off of Lisp, says something bad about Lisp itself. Bill Clementson looks at the same data and comes to the conclusion that lisp is good for startups (emphasis mine):

    So, Yahoo acquires Viaweb and rewrites it. The end result is inferior to the original Lisp-based product. Sony acquires Naughty Dog and decides to eliminate the Lisp-based development infrastructure. The end result is an inferior game development environment. Sure, there were probably a lot of reasons for these decisions by Yahoo and Sony… however, the end result for both companies has been something inferior to what they originally acquired.

    But, for both Paul Graham and Naughty Dog, the use of Lisp allowed them to develop products that pushed them to the front of the pack. They were subsequently bought out; however, the fact that their Lisp tools were subsequently discarded does not throw a negative shadow on Lisp. Lisp got them to where they needed to be to succeed — definitely a quality that entrepreneurs want in a programming language!

  14. Looking for a beautiful typeface? Fontin.

  15. Mark Nottingham's announced an utterly fantastic set of tests of XMLHttpRequest's HTTP behavior.

  16. Call land-lines from your Jabber client of choice with JabPhone.

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