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• NYT Slideshow: What's Your Sign?, a look at the new highway sign font ClearviewHwy.
• 5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know.
• Birthdays Without Pressure is a site by parents who want to downsize birthday parties. It's nice to see like-minded parents using the web to organize against their children. I mean someone has to stand up to big children, they're a powerful lobby.
• pastebin is a site for sharing/debugging code with a group.
• Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped fame is working on a Google Office Hacks book for O'Reilly.
• Desktoptopia is a cool little Mac application that sets a desktop background from their pool of images. You can rate or block any background you don't like. It's been buggy for me (crashing on start), and I wish the collaborative filtering was a bit more transparent (a la public ratings), but this is a great start on a fun idea.
• Wikipedia image: Broadway tower. Love this photo.

Here are a few parenting blogs that have made it into my regular rotation:

• Daddy Types - the weblog for new dads.
• Geekdad - Lego projects and occasionally other stuff. part of Wired blogs.
• Nested - hip kid products + commentary.
• Nesting - more hip kid products + design commentary.
• yokiddo - even more hip kid products (with little commentary), by David Galbraith.
• Parent Hacks - shared parenting tips.

On review, I think I should subscribe to some frugal-parenting blogs. Most of these are heavily stuff-oriented. Being a new parent does put you in a new class of consumer, but there's a lot more to learn than what stuff is available to buy. The parenting blog search will continue. I also subscribe to posts tagged with parenting at Ask Metafilter. I've found a ton of seemingly useful parenting advice on Ask Metafilter, and I'll try to include some examples in my next post.

This has been a not-too-organized link dump. Until next time, as you were.