"a collective effort to help people discover new places and experiences anywhere in the world". A bunch of ex-Googlers are behind it. Heard described as "sort of like if Yelp and Lonely Planet had a baby".

A funny, engaging review of the Kindle 2 from Mac developer Steven Frank.

"Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears."

"Review, share, and learn about beer." It's BeerAdvocate or RateBeer but with a big, friendly, Web 2.0 aesthetic.

Cool project backed by XMMP PubSub.

I can also recommend this book. It's got suggestions and the numbers to back 'em up.

"Beer ratings tailored to your tastes."

Dave Eggers on David Foster Wallace's masterpiece

a very negative impression of the language from a language geek

I really want to like/use Stikkit. Maybe this'll help?

Warpspire reviews a newish JS framework

thorough.

Gruber says everything I would've and more. really disappointed by this one. I expected more from this team.