★ — a cool star HTML symbol on OS X; how’s it look on other systems?

styrofirm – cool web design firm; did the interface for phpcollab which I love…

Install Apache, PHP, MySQL, and more for Windows! – easy enough that even I was able to do it!

bookofjoe: E.M. Cioran returns – beautiful simple book image; i like the style, why can’t we browse the web in portrait mode?

Doblin – Ten types of innovation – like Fast Company comparing product and business innovations; this has 8 more ways to innovate!

The Loom: Angels and Extinctions – why “normal science” rarely delivers the results that most people expect; that until you know everything about a subject, you can’t really declare anything for sure…like The Structure of Scientific Revolution‘s normal science description.

Kam Vedbrat – What influenced the visual design of Longhorn? – of course, only viewable in Windows IE…

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The semio-grads – semiotics, Ira Glass’ and Steven Johnson’s major at Brown. Weird, self-referential stuff…sounds like fun!

Marginal Revolution: Is a bad American image bad for American products? – “Above a certain level of income, at least half of our discretionary consumption is driven by the desire to affiliate and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are doing.” – like Experience Economy predicts.

Whisper – Screens – cool, non-weblog content managment