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interesting thoughts on structured data vs. conversations in a world with fantastic full-text search + tagging. Will conversations win?

open source data destruction. useful if you want to sell/donate a computer or hard drive.

some cities are starting to use Google Earth to model for planning. (via slashdot)

Big carbon credits: "Branson...said the money would come from 100 percent of the profits generated by his transportation sectors -- trains and airline companies." (via kottke)

nice flickr interface

tips for tuning your site for Google, culled from googler Matt Cutts' blog.

I hadn't thought of the "visited" CSS class as a security problem before, but this phishing technique is pretty clever (and evil). (via joshua)

tons of data visualization ideas in one place. (also mentioned in Cal's talk.)

Cal's talk at fowa mentioned copious graphing for web ops. This was one of the tools he mentioned.

wikipedia article that includes Kollock's motivations for online contributions.