"Metafilter moderator Josh Millard talks to Brooke about what you do when a celebrity joins your website anonymously in order to attack his critics." Great interview with Josh on one of my favorite radio shows.

Great security reminders. A password made up of three distinct words is fairly secure against a brute force attack. If developers build in a delay after failed password attempts that also helps deter brute force attacks. [via capn design]

ugh, this isn't good. "The fructose component of sugar and H.F.C.S. is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body. Consuming sugar (fructose and glucose) means more work for the liver than if you consumed the same number of calories of starch (glucose)."

"Allow me to offer a suggestion. If you are privately communicating with someone for the first time, as a general rule, the best course of action is to be polite and to the point."

Solarized is a color palette for code editors. I've been using these colors in TextMate for a day or so and I'm enjoying it.

"Diesels are wildly popular in Europe, accounting for roughly 50 percent of the car market there. So why don't automakers simply bring the European cars here?" An older article that explains why diesels are hard to come by here.

It's true. This is a very nicely done SSH for iPad/iPhone.

Good reminder: "Complain about the way other people make software by making software." Put another way: be the change in the world you want to see.

"We reckoned there there are five different things people mean in different contexts when talking about identity and the Internet." Nice summary of the pieces that make up Online Identity.

A nice jQuery image cropping library.

How-To: Art.