• Matt Taibbi: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating
  "And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners.  But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more." Linked everywhere for good reason--this is an excellent take on the occupy wall street movement.
• The Economist Daily chart: The 99 percent
  Chart: the top 1 percent has been doing ok for themselves for the past few years.
• PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet
  Hollywood should not control DNS. I can't believe I even had to write that sentence.

• The Guardian: Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me'
  Great interview with Tom Waits at the Washoe House. He laments digitization: "They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone."

• Ben Alman: jQuery hashchange event
  Very helpful jQuery plugin that adds on onhashchange event for browsers that don't have one.

• CSS-Tricks: Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS Triangles
  Nice breadcrumb design with CSS.

• BlockPlus: A browser extension to block Google+ notifications
  This works well! And it does seem to speed up Gmail a bit.

Just to add to the flood of appreciation for Steve Jobs that's pouring out online, this quote of his has always stuck with me:

"Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing." — Steve Jobs

It's a simple statement but it says a lot about learning from others, looking outside your immediate domain, and even looking back in time. Coming from Jobs it's a nice mashup of technology and liberal arts that has always appealed to me. I can see shades of this quote in many things he built, and I think it was this sort of sample/remix approach that helped Jobs add new, best things to emulate.

• Jesse Thorn: The highlight of my career, so far.
  When Jesse meets Bootsy, magic. Update: Now that it's out, be sure to listen to Jesse's Best. Interview. Ever. It will improve your day.
• Rdio Blog: Introducing: Free Access to Rdio
  Nice! Rdio is a great streaming music service with social features. It used to cost a monthly fee to listen to full songs, but now you can listen to a certain amount each month for free.

• Stephen Colebourne's blog: Time-zone databse down
  Oh man, the Olson database is a key piece of Web infrastructure. I hope they can get legal challenges sorted out and get the database back online. [via waxy]

• The Typekit Blog: Adobe acquires Typekit
  Congrats to Jeff and team, they completely changed the way designers work with type on the Web. This makes sense, and I hope Adobe lets the Typekit folks take the lead.
• PhoneGap: Acquisition Agreement with Adobe
  Adobe also purchased PhoneGap, a service that turns HTML5 Web Apps into native phone apps.

• Waxy.org: Geek's Guide to Portland 2011
  Andy put together a handy list of geeky Portland spots. Wish I could be up there for ROFLcon tomorrow.
• Paleofuture
  A great blog about futures past has moved to the Smithsonian Magazine. Seems like a good fit.
• GT: City pedals to top ranking
  huh, Corvallis has the largest percentage of bicycle commuters in the country.

• Annyas.com: Chevrolet speedometer design
  Nice sampling of speedometer design.
• Online JavaScript Beautifier
  Handy tool to unminify JavaScript.

• Futility Closet: Home Made
  "Sears used to sell houses by mail." Someone please put old catalog pictures side by side with modern pictures of those houses still in use.
• rc3.org - Managing my mistrust of Facebook
  "From now on, when I want to visit Facebook, I’ll be using the private browser setting in whatever browser I’m using." This is my new strategy too. What a hassle.

• Nik Cubrilovic: Logging out of Facebook is not enough
  ok, this is worth getting upset over. Update (9/28): Facebook Fixes and Explains.

• TheStreet: Why You Should Listen to Warren, Not Buffett
  "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody." It's nice to hear someone communicating traditional Democratic values so clearly.
• hello typepad: Uncreative Writing
  "...today's writer resembles more a programmer than a tortured genius, brilliantly conceptualizing, constructing, executing, and maintaining a writing machine." Nice.

• Ben Hammersley: My speech to the IAAC
  Ben discusses Moore's law, Internet = Modernity, and changing expectations. I love the "translator" metaphor to describe our generation that has lived in both Internet and non-Internet worlds.

• Pud's Blog: Why Must You Laugh At My Back End
  haha (not laughing at, with). I can sympathize.

• spin.js
  Ajax spinning image with no image! (A bit heavier than an image, though.)
• Anil Dash: What they're "protecting" us from
  "...it would seem that many who claim to be pro-business are trying to 'save' us from exactly the inclusive, creative, tolerant values that have made America's most successful company possible." Anil connects the dots.
• Gizmodo: AT&T's New Text Plan Overcharges You by 10,000,000 Percent.
  UGH. "AT&T's killing their $10/1,000 text plan. Now, you'll have to choose between $20 for unlimited, or forgo a plan and pay $0.20 per message. AT&T calls this 'streamlining.' We call it what it is: an outrageous, gigantic scam."
• Gizmodo: Why Do You Like Bad News?
  Mat Honan quoting Mike Monteiro: "We used to design things to take us to the moon, now we design things to keep us from getting out of bed." Like!
• Twitter Bootstrap
  Nice toolkit of design elements for building websites.

• David Weinberger: Reddit and community journalism
  "So, my hypothesis is that IAMA [I am a...] and AMA [ask me anything] are an important type of citizen journalism. Call it 'community journalism.'" TIL (today I learned...) is also a nice convention. [via waxy]
• PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
  This command line browser that can run JavaScript looks handy for testing web apps.

• NICO-FOTO: Jupiter 8 on Micro Four Thirds Review
  "If you’re into experimentation, manual focus lenses, or just enjoy 'vintage' gear, at around $50 it is a bargain..." Nice review of an old 50mm Soviet lens. eBay, activate!
• Alice Marwick: “If you don’t like it, don’t use it. It’s that simple.” ORLY?
  Why "Love it or leave it!" isn't a valid response to criticism of social networks.

• GRC: Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle?  
  Interesting look at "password padding" to create memorable AND secure passwords. [via Ask MeFi]
• Jeff Jarvis: The jobless future
  "We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future." Painful post to read but it makes sense. Now what?
• Jason Calacanis: The Jarvis Deal
  "When people say there are no easy solutions to our problems, I don’t think they are thinking hard or creatively enough. If our problem is that we don’t have enough technically trained Americans, why are we not focused like lasers on educating people?"
• The Atlantic: Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Names' Is Revolutionary
  "The kind of naming policy that Facebook and Google Plus have is actually a radical departure from the way identity and speech interact in the real world."

• Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home
  "A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby." A hobby? Oh, that's ok then. ... WHAT?
• danah boyd: "Real Names" Policies Are an Abuse of Power
  "The people who most heavily rely on pseudonyms in online spaces are those who are most marginalized by systems of power. 'Real names' policies aren't empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people."

• Opera Mobile Emulator
  A necessary evil.

• Unicode Characters as HTML Entities
  Handy tables of unicode characters and their HTML entities broken into categories.

• Chosen
  Nice looking jQuery/Prototype plugin that makes long select boxes more user friendly.

• A real person, a lot like you
  Derek Sivers reminds us that the Web is made out of people.
• Google: Improved handling of URLs with parameters
  "URL Parameters helps you control which URLs on your site should be crawled by Googlebot, depending on the parameters that appear in these URLs."