Make your very own huge URLs. Almost funny enough to write a service for …

Yet another product I had not heard of. Apparently there is some controversy about Google’s ranking of their own articles at Knol. I’ll crawl back under my rock now.

Kottke’s new tweet API is way cooler than Twitter’s. Seems more stable too. I haven’t laughed this hard at something on the nets for a long time. Thanks Kottke!

The story of the passive-aggressive programmer. It’s funny because it’s true.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! – C-3PO

A mildly entertaining JoelOnSoftware forum discussion on Logon versus Login. Which do you prefer?

Hack of the week: compressing javascripts into PNGs and back again. Horribly excellent, isn’t it?

The Joyant blog talks about where they fall short. The funny thing is, when I first tried to read the article, it was Slashdotted. A funny/sad thing to happen to a cloud-computing company’s blog.

Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel. I’m not saying data export isn’t important, it’s just aiming kinda low. You mean when I give you data, you’ll give it back to me? People who think this is the pinnacle of freedom aren’t really worth listening to. –DiveIntoMark

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. –Martin Golding