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A promising publish/subscribe protocol that could help connect disparate applications. [via anil]

If only we could turn them all away.

The scourge that is IE6 and why it will continue to thrive.

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.

"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]

Nice royalty-free icons, including the new free Payments set.

Handy bit of JavaScript to get the longitude and latitude of the center point on a Google Map. This works great as a bookmarklet.

YSlow has a nice new design, and a new option for "Small Site or Blog" that doesn't grade based on clustered server settings.

Visualize the most viewed wikipedia articles, or compare the views of different articles. Here's more information about the launch from Jeff Veen: Announcing Wikirank.

"I've always thought their status updates design was brilliant. Not because it was usable or attractive, I've always thought it was terrible. But because their design didn’t make promises they couldn’t keep." Painful and true advice: make sure you can deliver what you promise through design. [via rc3]

"The pupil measurements showed that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it."

"Joe Raiola, Senior Editor of MAD Magazine will present his one man show, The Joy of Censorship." Sounds fun. At the Corvallis library April 4th, 7pm.

A recording of The Decemberists in Austin. [via protherj]

This little plug computer that runs Linux looks like it'd be fun to play with.

How to move SQL Server full-text catalogs to a different drive.

A W3C validator for mobile sites.

Nice roundup of design trends for phones. [via magnetbox]

Blog by a film location scout with great pictures of New York City. [via MeFi]

This tutorial shows how you can use Google as a CDN for components of your site. (If the requests will be limited to under 650,000/day.) [via hackszine]

A way of measuring the difference, or "edit distance" between two strings.