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This is a great milestone for Pinboard and Maciej. I'm a happy customer.

Nice little Mac menubar app that gives you more control over your computer fans.

"Nike has discovered that there's a magic number for a Nike+ user: five. If someone uploads only a couple of runs to the site, they might just be trying it out. But once they hit five runs, they're massively more likely to keep running and uploading data. At five runs, they've gotten hooked on what their data tells them about themselves." [via blackbeltjones]

Bruce Sterling is taking over as editor of Cool Tools. Neat.

"Open, decentralized micropublishing." A distributed Twitter sounds fine, but don't we already have this in the form of "weblogs" and "newsreaders"--and without the 140 character restraint?!

Matt's new cycling blog.

Nice way to let people browse extremely large photos with the Google Maps API.

This is a nightmare. But it's a good reminder to change your passwords if they're simple dictionary words.

"Perhaps they know better than we do how deeply the American people long to be done with the problem of democracy...Sarah Palin represents what many people want: a retreat from reason; a regression to childhood." [via MeFi]

Netflix has an API now. It includes their movie catalog, reviews, and manipulating queues (oauth for that). [via waxy]

A talk David Simon gave at the Berkeley Townsend Center. [via sippey]

Search the Google of 2001 when my blog was the 3rd result for "Paul". I guess Pagerank and I have drifted apart over these last seven years.

Jason's Twitter-killer: plain text file on a server. Someone write an aggregator and we've got the distributed holy Twitter grail.

Eclipse plugin for ColdFusion development.

Fun web app for creating tiled backgrounds. [via MeFi]

The trouble with attention-focused modal overlays such as lightbox, and why asynchronous trays and sliders are better. [via migurski]

looks like a good way to jump start a CF facebook app.

"...this moving skyscape features Jupiter above the southeastern horizon and the marbled streets of the ancient port city of Ephesus, located in modern day Turkey."

Examples of pictures from dozens of vintage cameras. [via A Photo Editor]

Make any photo look like it was taken during Japan's Edo period. [via MeFi] Here's what one of my photos looks like after being sent back in time:

"Figure out how much each Netflix rental is costing you." I don't want to know.

Yahoo's ColdFusion-specific resources.

a ColdFusion wrapper for the Facebook API

Rafe on conflicting images of Iran. We're only getting one view of the country in our major media outlets, but the social Web provides a more nuanced, complete view.

haha, let fate determine where you should eat! Jim put together a fun visualization of Yahoo! Local business entries.

Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby are writing a book about designing REST web services.