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Find domain names for your projects beyond the big three.

Handy list of world currency symbols.

This is a nice theme for Movable Type that doesn't ship with MT4.

Neat idea for finding a meeting spot. [via kottke]

Brian Eno put together a generative music app for the iPhone called Bloom.

"Our results showed that just the very basic metric of reply length, along with the number of competing answers, and the track record of the user, was most predictive of whether the answer would be selected. The number of other best answers by a user, a potential indicator of expertise, was predictive of an answer being selected as best, but most significantly so for the technically focused Programming category." [via waxy]

Jay Rosen: "At what point does an extreme attempt to de-legitimate the press actually de-legitimate the candidate as an extremist in the eyes of the press?"

Andy Baio and Joshua Shacter whip up a political blog ideology rating system by analyzing their linking patterns and scoring with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).

A multifunction utility for system maintenance, optimization, and personalization.

Is there anything better than engravings of alchemists' laboratories?

"...future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location." [via veen]

You can launch a web app in its own process on the iPhone (outside of mobile safari).

I do not condone this. But I'll link to it anyway. For the lulz.

The history and current state of product placement on TV. [via Fimoculous]

Looks like a neat screen saver that uses grid computing to generate its patterns. [via Cool Tools]

"Perhaps they know better than we do how deeply the American people long to be done with the problem of democracy...Sarah Palin represents what many people want: a retreat from reason; a regression to childhood." [via MeFi]

Netflix has an API now. It includes their movie catalog, reviews, and manipulating queues (oauth for that). [via waxy]

A talk David Simon gave at the Berkeley Townsend Center. [via sippey]

Search the Google of 2001 when my blog was the 3rd result for "Paul". I guess Pagerank and I have drifted apart over these last seven years.

Nice post by Ted Rheingold summarizing some of GA's advanced features.

The word lifestream makes me gag, but this is interesting anyway. A self-hosted, PHP, social stuffs aggregator. [via Hackszine]

Funny idea and video from Sara Silverman. (nsfw)