- CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 million | TechCrunch: I hate to be a knee-jerker, but really, CBS is never, ever going to get the web. I’ve been watching the interaction of old media and the internet for over a decade, and everything points to this being last.fm’s death knell. Sad.
- The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids: Cement: "’It was at this point in the conversation that I burst out laughing.’ If the pyramids were indeed cast, someone should have proven it beyond a doubt by now, in this day and age, with just a few hours of electron microscopy. "
- Hype Machine Download Links – Userscripts.org: By one Jason Rhyley. I am become the ultimate lazyblogger.
- GNU Songanizer Home Page – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF): "GNU Songanizer is a shell script to organize a directory [of music]. Creates virtual directory structures to give different views of the data, but without redundant copies of the files." Awesome.
- The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:: "People who think of the VCR as old and stable, and the PC as a relatively new invention, are not the kind of people who think up Tivo[, it's ppl] presented with two storage choices, tape or disk, without historical bias making tape seem more normal."
- Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2: Replace the default keyboard shortcuts in The Gimp with some more familiar ones.
- Set Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu
- FeedWordPress: "…an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from newsfeeds that you choose into your WordPress blog." Slick. On second thought, a bit too complicated for what I do at rhyley.org.
- How do you connect to Motorola P2K phones in Ubuntu?: Short answer: apt-get moto4lin. Maybe not surprisingly, infinitely better than similar solutions available for windows.
- 2 pointing devices in xorg.conf: RSI prevention starts at home.

