How about a Javascript database? TaffyDB is a key/value store with database query semantics.

Key Value Pairs in Database design, and why they represent future pain.

A detailed “autopsy” of 4 webapps, including line counts (server/client/styles), and comparisons of conversion rates and relative support costs. The most interesting tidbit: conversion rates of 1% are common in the sample set.

A full-text extension for SQLite, found while reading Google’s use of SQLite in Google Gears.

Bjarne Stroustrup’s FAQ, with tidbits on programming, C++, and pronunciation.

Bob Garfield asks Bill Gates about the Mac versus PC ads, and Gates ends the interview. The juicy excerpt:

GARFIELD: I want to ask you one more thing: Those Mac ads — how do you feel about the John Hodgman character?

GATES: I can’t comment on someone else’s ad.

GARFIELD: OK … but he’s you.

GATES: Yeah, I’m not gonna comment on someone else’s ad.

GARFIELD: OK, well, Bill Gates, thank you so much for joining us.

(Silence)

GARFIELD: Can I just have a clean goodbye?

(Silence)

GARFIELD: OK, can you just say goodbye? Thank you or goodbye or something like that?

GATES: Goodbye.

A new way to think about carbohydrates, a clear summary of the different types of carbs and their effect on the body’s systems.

NutritionData.com has a nifty Firefox search plugin to search foods in their database. Very handy.

Ruport is a Ruby reporting library that can hook into ActiveRecord, CSV, or SQL/DBI. It has a simple formatting language, can produce PDFs and graphs, and even does some code generation to make things easy.

Force feedback GUIs without the force, a set of examples showing methods of force-like feedback that don’t require special hardware effects.