Link by Link - This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix - NYTimes.com. article on xkcd.

Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses. it’s static IP addresses. that’s some terrible feature naming.

Chris Anderson and Michael Arrington: Back-to-Back on Charlie Rose. the end piece of the anderson interview on the competitive advantage of the usa is an interesting one.

Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit - New York Times “Ma’am, you do realize that there’s a jack on the keyboard itself?”

Five whys - Joel on Software. a good post on how to deal when shit happens.

Ryan is giving a talk at next weeks Ignite Seattle entitled “A pseudoscience guide to geek dating: How the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life”. awesome.

The Associated Press: Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Offer. nothing like a formal rejection. and what happens when you put two flatlined companies together?

Rubiverse::Podcast.new(”Zed Shaw on Leaving Ruby”). tech communities are way too self consumed.

Nimble Method: Guerrilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications. in case you really care about rails perf.

How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | The Guardian. nice infographic of the underwater pipes. via boris.

VeloCity Residence at Waterloo. an incubator residence for startups focusing on mobile communications, web, and new media.

Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You. that’s right, pay you to interview with them. google and facebook are on the private beta.

Microsoft preempts Hyper-V release with virtualization vision | The Register “Microsoft knows rule number one in the software game better than any other company: Never let a missing product get in the way of marketing.”

Yahoo To Cut 20% Of Its Workforce? that’s 2400 people.

Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion - Times Online. i really have no idea what sun’s business model is anymore.

Fraxi - a “Ning” For Digg Clones. ning lets you create your own social network on whatever topic you want. fraxi will let you create your own digg site on whatever topic you want.

An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep. on going from a programmer to a manager.

Air Canada computers back up after problem causes worldwide delays. come on people, print your bording passes at home and don’t check luggage.


the “lost pilot” of 24 from 1994. i was crying from laughing so hard. via boris.

MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos - Boing Boing. they switched DRM providers and all old licenses just don’t work anymore. MLB is so ass backwards.