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Someone asked me today what my favorite tech blog was. I had to think about it a bit, but I eventually decided that HackThePlanet is hands-down the best thing since sliced silicon. I’ve been reading it since 2000, and I still enjoy every post. It’s a hardcore tech geek blog that’s avoided whoring itself, posting hardcore nerd things semi-regularly. Kudos.

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

The Stephen Downes Guide to the Logical Fallacies. A short, organized list.

A clear analysis of page load time optimization techniques. The most interesting bit I found:

“consider evenly spreading those objects over four hostnames … (resulting in) average latency dropping to about 1/4 of what it was before”

The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News, an paper relevant to general site design.

Another interesting Web2.0 idea, barcodepedia.com.

Getting Real: An interview with Jason Fried (via kottke). A quote:

… I started reading and hearing more about an approach that, counter to common wisdom, insisted that it was in fact possible to build better web products with fewer people …

On Threads
So, while Sun will probably be the first player slapping big money down on the multithreading horse in the high-stakes CPU race, you still need to pay attention even if you’re not a Sun customer. Because a few years from now, you’re going to need a lot more CPU cycles than you do now, and unless you’re willing to bet on that 5GHz fusion reactor, multithreading is how you’re probably going to get them. (Via Tim Bray)

With great audiences…
With this greater audience comes a greater responsibility. If 100,000 people are reading your words you need to be more certain about what you say than if it’s just for a bunch of mates. I can’t help feeling that Boing Boing has stepped past the hazy mark where it can get away with publishing off-the-cuff posts about events in the world without spending some of the time and money we assume those ads are generating on checking facts. Let’s look at a couple of examples that might have benefited from more research.