Reading Material

• If I was the EU...
• Pick and browse for flickr photos based on color.
• Profs should rethink banning laptops from the lecture halls.
• How Blogs are Becoming More Like Newspapers.
• Pirate a video game, and your desktop and personal information get sent out on the Web.
• I'm sure there's somebody out there that could use this: Top 20 Blogs about Knitting.
• 11 Things You Should Never Do Online.
• Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers (oldy, may have seen/linked before, but still good).
• A look back at 12 years of hell we call the DMCA.
• URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web.
• Really fun series from Slate: The Secret Language Of Signs.
• Google Apps now has a marketplace -- unfortunately none of it (that I can find) works on Google Apps free edition.
• If you have a Philips DVD player, there's a good chance there's a firmware hack here for it.
• Making amazing posters and desktops from Google Maps.
• 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (I'll be the first to admit that a few of these describe me).
• Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein.
• A creative way to setup a laptop in a car so the back-seaters can watch DVDs. A similar product at an ugly site.
• The "No Dashes or Spaces" Hall of Shame -- or why your credit card forms on your site suck. My day-job's site has this issue, too, but considering that our reservation software is barely online capable and DOS-based, I'm not about to monkey with it as I'm afraid I'll break something.
• It should be easier to contribute to open source projcts, so somebody's trying to make it easier.
• Paris in 26 gigapixels.
• 10 Geeky Items You're Embarrased to Admit You Want.
• Search and Share, and interesting add-on for a site, but it effectively disables right-click, which I hate.
• Why new, big hard drives might really suck for Windows XP users.
• 8-bit Austin, a map of the city in 8-bit graphical form.

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