Yahoo has a web UI design patterns library, giving names (and examples) to do dozens of usable things.

Yahoo’s Grid CSS defines 100s of cross-browser compatible column layouts in a single, small CSS file (1.82Kb). This is an interesting alternative to the more common approach, as it clearly defines terms for various layouts, almost providing a language for columnar layouts.

These are my picks for the best base Javascript libraries:

• moo.ajax, a miniscule wrapper for asynchronous XMLHttp requests
• moo.fx, a itty-bitty browser fx lib
• The Yahoo UI library, a larger, but very complete set of tools
• The prototype.js framework (it’s really an Ajax class library) and its wiki
• The rico javascript effects library
• The sajax simple Ajax library
• The Behaviour DOM access library
• And lastly, the defacto script.aculo.us libraries
• And if the above is geek to you, try this ‘Ajax’ overview at the Ajaxian blog, or the Wikipedia article on Ajax (programming)

Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?. Some stats from the article:

• At up to $2.50 per liter ($10 per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline in the United States
• Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year
• Roughly 40 percent of bottled water begins as tap water

Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists

What business can learn from open source
“At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t.” ([Paul Graham])

Why Google Is Syndication Shy For over a year now I have been wondering why Google hasn’t more openly embraced syndicated feeds - be they RSS or its splintered sister, Atom. When you look at how MSN and Yahoo are partying with RSS like it is 1999, Google is like the nerd sitting in the corner in the corner with no one to dance with.

Stick a fork where, Ben? Ben chooses one moment in time where he perceives Yahoo to have barely edged ahead and calls the game over (’three-nil’). Even if I agreed with his analysis, in the words of Yogi Berra “We didn’t lose, the game just ended too early.”