at the spoon experience is discussion of segregated blog rolls - separating the "every day" from the "occasionally" - "Personally, I'm flattered when someone adds me to their blogroll, no matter what label they put on me. I also know that everyone has their own favorites, and few people have the time to read everything they might like to. I don't expect everyone to read me everyday: though some people do. I'm just grateful if people make time to drop by this site once and a while." - i read every blog on my blog roll every day that I read blogs (basically every day) because i have no life :)#

shelley, yourish, teresa, and tom are all a bit offended at the charge of 500 dollars for Dave Winer's conference. #

this is neat. it's nice when reason prevails.#

charles miller defends wheel re-invention in the style of joel: - "You want to avoid an external dependency. Every dependency you add makes your project just that little bit more complex, and that little bit harder for an end-user to get up and running. There is also an unavoidable mismatch between what you want external code to do and what it actually does that will have to be bridged over (and the bridge maintained across revisions of both codebases). Sometimes, you will decide that the effort to write something yourself is actually less than the effort of tracking and packaging someone else's code."#

neat story from robert scoble - "On the way down to Oakland, I sat next to Howard Poe. He shot down, with just a Springfield 1903 rifle, the first plane in U.S. World War II action. He was based at Kane'ohe Naval Air Station and had a lucky shot. The Japanese hit the air base first, before moving onto Pearl Harbor."#

from the bikini diaries - article - excerpt, "The research found 80% of British men didn't even know what foreplay was, mistaking it for a sport, a computer game or an item of clothing."#

also from bd - ninja lessons - you MUST read this.#

awesome idea via digital web magazine - "Matt Robinson launches Web design postcards. No, it's not what you think. These are postcards you email to the designers and owners of sites that haven't quite picked up on the best practices of the web, very clever."#