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Nice summary of Fuelly with a list of things to do once you sign up. I bet interest increases directly with gas prices.

Google's take on YSlow--Yahoo's excellent website performance analyzer. Not as polished as YSlow, but looks promising and includes some analysis that YSlow doesn't cover such as CSS efficiency and image compression.

Great cheese. I wish I could get this in Corvallis.

"In its final days before crashing into the surface of the moon on June 11, Japan’s KAGUYA explorer has been shooting high-definition footage of the lunar terrain from low altitude."

A father teaches his children the ancient art of rhetoric. "It was as if I’d given them advertising immunization shots."

This is a sharp bike. It's 8-speed, has a carbon drive belt instead of an oily chain, and includes fenders for Oregon weather. Officially on my wish list. [via mathowie]

"What are some books that people are particularly likely to be assholes about?" Another fun thread gathering books that people are, umm, passionate about.

"You know the one. I can't think of its name. It's the one they always use." Hilarious thread that catalogs overused songs in movies and TV.

"...you can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port..." Used this today to pipe my iPhone through the computer speakers.

"I'd argue that attention is an important part of the status metric; but I don't think more attention always translates to more status..." Interesting thoughts about why people contribute on the Web. [via anil]

10 typefaces for programming. I'm trying out their top pick--Inconsolata--and I like it so far. [via protherj]

A little web app for creating a shadow image for custom Google Maps icons.

Handy little wizard for generating custom Google Maps icons.