Impressive --> WeatherSpark: "A new look for weather data"

iOS Boilerplate: a base template for iOS applications -

Nicest review in 45 years: "15 Years of Cutting-Edge Thinking on Understanding the Mind" - Maria Popova Atlantic

Wow, that's useful: Huge Collection of Code Snippets: .htaccess, PHP, WordPress, jQuery, HTML, CSS -

Tinyletter: an easy way to start writing your own email newsletter - #tool

“In 5 years a computer program will win a Pulitzer Prize...”

Holy crap. This WSJ compilation of Steve Jobs' Best Quotes has got to be the best such thing ever compiled:

But they have to turn them off during takeoff/landing. “@macworld: United is giving 11,000 iPads to pilots"

Passive amp for iPhone. Great idea. 'Passive amp' sounds much better than 'megaphone,' doesn't it?

Very interesting reference: How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers - #useful

Golden Grid System: a folding grid for responsive design - #tool #useful

Worth reading and re-reading: Rethinking CSS Grids by @markboulton -

Nice, simple handmade iPad stand:

So that's how you do it ... New method to eject mounted disk in Lion now that the 'lozenge' is gone:

I did. Worth it. RT: @meyerweb: Drop everything and watch Cookie Monster 'singing' Tom Waits' "God's Away On Business":

Tag pages. Interesting. RT: @davewiner: My friend Paolo in Italy is experimenting with a new kind of RSS aggregator.

Google's photo sharing app Photovine is now open to all

Hipster lorem ipsum:

This is slick. Autodesk 123D Sculpt for iPad: (watch the video; currently a free download)

Combat gnomes:

HTML5Boilerpate 2.0 Is Released: a rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome -

awesomeness coming soon! green notebook that charges itself through water & releases oxygen into the atmosphere!

RT @science: NOAA issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning - scale G3 or greater

Would've liked to have seen The Evens. RT: @DCist_Updates: Photos from @fortrenoDC's 2011 finale, featuring Ian MacKaye:

Freaky illusion:

So true: ,21067/

I think I would still have some fear.

Full BBEdit 10 for $40? Hard to pass that up.

@jerrylau Interesting. RT: @LabSpaces: Chinese-English bilinguals are 'automatic' translators -

Egads. Don't make things worse, NPR. "Carl '60 Cent' Kasell And The Debt Ceiling (via @nprpolitics)"

@moosetique you may find this useful? Northsocial Facebook apps for designing and launching custom Facebook Pages -

Have you heard of HTML5 microdata? A great read by Alexis Goldstein -

RT: @NSF: Just added to @ChallengeGov - the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. #scivis

Are RSS guids actually expected to be globally unique? (No.).

After 9 months of blood, sweat and tears from my team: BBC iPlayer goes global with iPad launch

Final shot of the shed ... Heading home in the morning. I'll miss the cool Maine weather.

If you have issues with Zen Coding for Coda plugin on OSX Lion, try to download the updated version:

Day 7 of the Giant Shed. Only one day left until I head home.

Check out this high tech car phone!

Day 6 of the shed saga:

Day 5 of the shed. I think it's 5 ... Starting to blur together. Hope to be roofing by Tuesday!

Day four of the shed.

Day three of the shed.

Sunset on Lake Nicatous:

Day two of the shed.

Day one of the new shed.

Timelapse video reveals "Electric Face" in embryonic tadpole; appears before tadpole face develops (via @science)

On science blogs this week: Inoculation: Personal blogging is dead because of Google+. Or not. By faking a vacc...

Spot on. 'Getting to Crazy:'

Brand new 2011 Posters...thank you to everyone that voted on our image. Please tell us what you think!

How to style buttons with jQuery Mobile

"The Twilight of the CMS" @erikhinton explains @TPM's app-as-feature strategy and his new bespoke front page publisher

10,000 Year Clock Begins Construction Thanks to $42 Million from Amazon's CEO.

We'd love to know which Path Finder features are most important to you:

Quoting and citing with «blockquote», «q», «cite», and the cite attribute -

"Bagels became a test case of how you make something commercially viable at the cost of everything that makes it good"

Farewell Floats: The Future of CSS Layout -

Today/tomorrow, get 2 free bucks to spend on Amazon MP3s. (via @Ihnatko)

Great news. Espresso/CSSEdit merge RT: @ianbeck: Why, look at that; a pre-release version of Espresso 2.0!

"The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret." Ted Genoways, @MotherJones #muckreads

The basic premise is simple. Provide people with information about their actions in real time (or something close to it), then give them an opportunity to change those actions, pushing them toward better behaviors. Action, information, reaction. It’s the operating principle behind a home thermostat, which fires the furnace to maintain a specific temperature, or the consumption display in a Toyota Prius, which tends to turn drivers into so-called hypermilers trying to wring every last mile from the gas tank. But the simplicity of feedback loops is deceptive. They are in fact powerful tools that can help people change bad behavior patterns, even those that seem intractable. Just as important, they can be used to encourage good habits, turning progress itself into a reward. In other words, feedback loops change human behavior. And thanks to an explosion of new technology, the opportunity to put them into action in nearly every part of our lives is quickly becoming a reality.

Why can't we do this in the U.S?