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"...by permitting a third party to own and control access to the customer database, restaurants have unwittingly paid while giving away one of the crown jewels of their business, their customers."

Bruce Sterling on Flipboard. "I would counter that what this thing really massacres is weblogs. Flipbook makes weblogs look archaic, much more than it makes magazines look archaic."

I always wondered about those people at library book sales with scanners. Now I know. [via TYWKIWDBI]

A browser extension that blocks all of those annoying 'Like on Facebook' buttons.

This work by a Slovenian painter in the early 20th century is eerily similar to our own century's Jim Woodring.

Learn the constellations the 1940's Navy way!

I don't care what science says, Mexican Coke is better! (Glass bottles alone are better.)

Pinhole lenscap for Micro 4/3 cameras. [via hchamp]

Rev Dan Catt explains why applications that rely on the social graph have scaling problems.

Nice program for moving shows off of TiVo, converting for devices, and adding to iTunes. Works very well with my old Series 2. [via joshua]

"It's easy to say all of our choices and all the aspects of our identity can be shared if we don't face any serious social or personal consequences for doing so." [via jessamyn]

Bloglines is shutting down and people are leaving Google Reader in droves. [via pkedrosky on Twitter via my social netw...OH, I see what's happening.]

Turn any Flickr RSS feed into The Big Picture by resizing the photos from Small to Large. I have my issues with Yahoo Pipes and their agressive scraping, but I have to admit this does make viewing Flickr photos with Google Reader fun.

In the early 80's Tim O'Reilly wrote a book about Frank Herbert? And the full text is available online? Yes and yes. [via MeFi]

Optimizes PNGs by dithering colors and limiting the palette. [via nelson]

This is the command line PNG optimizer that Google Page Speed uses to compress images.

New Dads have biological changes too. [via Daddy Types]

Still an interesting question: what do cities and travel mean in a world of instant communication? [via peterme]

The terrifying future is here with off-the-shelf parts! I wonder about accuracy though. Foursquare always thinks I'm three doors down.

Nicely designed alphabet and animal sounds iPhone apps for kids. [via Hey Stuff]

Compare iTunes interface versions.