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"...Facebook now stands as taking over a decade and a half of the dream of the World Wide Web and turning it into a miserable IT cube farm of pseudo human interaction, a bastardized form of e-mail, of mailing lists, of photo albums, of friendship." Excellent rant about the ephemeral nature of Facebook (among other things).

"Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news." Often misused, this site collect media buzzwords and provides the real definition.

Create stories using social media.

Insanely colorful sculptures and drawings.

Images that are liked on MLKSHK.

This helps explain why the tyranny of choice is tyrannical. The time it takes to make a decision is based on the number of choices available.

Screenshots of sites that display well at different window sizes. [via mathowie]

A clean, simple interface to the existing jQuery documentation.

Interesting alternative to Photoshop's Raw processor. [via lhl]

Some things for companies to keep in mind when releasing "anonymized" data for research.

This solid list of Sinatra slang is gasville. (Am I doing that right?)

Kids sing The Smiths.

"I thought I would die, severed from the tweetosphere, but I didn’t."

This was a fun surprise at the GEL conference this year.

This is a free ePub book about SQL indexes. Loaded up on my iPad for light reading.

This article includes an interesting use of social media for identity obfuscation. "...we create bogus individuals around client names. One person could be a photographer, one person could be a chauffeur, or whatever. We develop about 15 to 20 web sites and create all these social media sites around you. Now if you are traveling somewhere and someone puts your name in, they are going to locate those 20 other people before they get to you, depending on how much information is known about you."

Crowdsourced documentary about life across the world on a single day: July 24th, 2010.

"What would a Business Class news site look like?" Great question.

A few ideas that could reduce the friction of signing up/in.