Peter Maass had the Salam Pax scoop

Peter Maass had the Salam Pax scoop under his very nose for weeks and missed it completely. some journalist he is… ;)

A book about Amazon.com on Amazon.com

A book about Amazon.com on Amazon.com. it’s meta-tacular!

“I think one of the most serious

“I think one of the most serious problems in the free software community is that “open source development” allows a small group of individuals to exhibit all the sluggishness, stupidity and beauracracy [sic] of a large company”.

Gothamist takes food away from the obviously

Gothamist takes food away from the obviously very hungry Jeffrey Steingarten.

Gecko-like sticky tape is like Velcro without the other half

Gecko-like sticky tape is like Velcro without the other half. I want to run up walls with this stuff on my shoes!

You Grow Girl, cool garden tips and techniques

You Grow Girl, cool garden tips and techniques.

Social vaporware

Bill Thompson wants a little less conversation about social software (and presumably, a little more action):

This lack of awareness about what has been done before means that, by and large, the ongoing debate about social software is generally uninteresting, intellectually shallow and largely irrelevant.

It is a shame, because the people having the discussions are intelligent and write well, and they are struggling with real issues.

However the easy availability of online publishing tools, the drive to cross-link every discussion and comment to everyone else’s, and the almost complete lack of any historical or research-based perspective means that the result is no more interesting than an overheard coffee-shop conversation.

I can’t say that I disagree with Thompson’s viewpoint here except to say that coffee-shop conversations have value as well.

Season finale of Six Feet Under: did

Season finale of Six Feet Under: did Brenda’s boobs get bigger?.