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In the early 80's Tim O'Reilly wrote a book about Frank Herbert? And the full text is available online? Yes and yes. [via MeFi]

Optimizes PNGs by dithering colors and limiting the palette. [via nelson]

This is the command line PNG optimizer that Google Page Speed uses to compress images.

New Dads have biological changes too. [via Daddy Types]

Another way to move web content to a native iPhone app using TapLynx.

A behind-the-scenes look at moving web content to a native iPhone app.

This looks like a fun way to turn dieting/exercise into a social game. It's the latest from Buster Benson.

Clever method of detecting a user's timezone without IP tables.

I'm enjoying this book by Jeremy Keith. The book itself is nicely designed too.

Nice list with concise summaries of some major features of HTML5. [via mathowie]

Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.

Good primer on getting email for web applications set up.

Jesse and Adam are back, shoe talkin'.

"...a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code." [via stupidfool]

Nice tool for turning a word with unicode characters into the HTML equivalent.

adobe complimentary color tool

Matt has a great summary of South by Southwest Interactive 2010.

Google Tech Talk by Amy Jo Kim about "Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software".

Jesse Schell talks about Facebook games, moving beyond them, and the scary future of achievements unlocked in real life.

Looks like a simple way for a web app to send/receive SMS messages.

Not only did I post this link to delicious, I "liked" it at Google Reader, commented about it at Facebook, retweeted, dugg, and potentially verbed it in other ways that I might not be aware of. But yeah, more author tools--hear, hear!

A nice way to integrate Google Closure with TextMate. The trick to using it is selecting the file to compile from the TextMate Project Drawer.

Google hosts a web version of their in-house JavaScript compiler/minifier. How did I not hear about this?

J.D. has some good Oregon weather rules that sound right to me. I guess it really is eight months of rain, wow.

Another SQL-based log analyzer from Microsoft.

This handy tool lets you query apache logs with SQL. (Had to install on Ubuntu.) Much handier than awkward awk commands for me.