Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million. makers of the cappuccino web framework and atlas. that’s a lot of money for a revenue-free framework. i’ll bet that motorola basically kills the usefulness of this whole project.

Dropbox – Jobs. yup, that’s an eagle, on a velociraptor, holding an AK-47, on a shark.

Slablet. iPad html layouts. Uses iScroll library for scrolling overflows.

A More Royal Royal Opera House – Brand New. nice work on the crest.

Scaling Memcached with vBuckets. basics of how membase (used by Zynga) shards data in a cluster. nothing about the protocol about deciding how new nodes get assigned buckets though.

Status Code Drinking Game. just keep reloading. only funny if you’re a nerd. “416 Request Entity Too Large : Thats what she said! Everyone drinks.”

GROW 2010. I wish I had known about this conference. great single-track line-up and the third day is a choice of outdoor activity. what a great idea!

Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down | Encosia. makes a couple good points about when not to use jquery’s document ready method.

Why aren’t you using git-flow? – Jeff Kreeftmeijer. that’s a pretty cool git plugin.

Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob. nice post about why free accounts basically creates a pile of users you’ll never convert but need to support.

It’s august 18th! Get your Ontario grown Coronation grapes while you can! http://twitpic.com/2g1mkm

ING DIRECT Canada: Chequing. ING launched a fee-free chequing account. Free email money transfers too. Maybe this will put some pressure on the big banks in Canada.

MOTHERFUCKINGLASERS!!!!. html5 is clearly awesome.

The ISEAMI House by Robles Architects » CONTEMPORIST. now this is a gorgeous house.

Any way you Slice It – Brand New. nice logo and packaging.

MongoDB Videos from Seattle Meet Up « myNoSQL. The first talk, “MongoDB for Real Time Data Collection and Stats Generation”, is pretty interesting. Uses Mongo for generating stats and talks about using map-reduce for generating more stats.

Op-Ed Contributor – Universities Are Heading Toward Academic Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com. holy shit those are some big numbers.

Arrived in Mexico for Juan’s wedding. Cuernavaca is looking pretty sweet.

Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! « OkTrends. “statistical proof that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple”.

500 Days Of Weezy. mash-up of 500 Days of Summer soundtrack with Lil’ Wayne. The mash-up of Hall & Oates Rich Girl with Lollipop is pretty awesome.