★ Microsoft is organizing a contest where participants have to use Internet Explorer 8 to find the hidden $10000 :

"It's a cleverly concealed webpage you can view on Internet Explorer 8."

They are losing the point, again. Just like they did with IE6 and IE7. By using IE8-only scripts, IE8-only templates and IE8-only pages, Microsoft publicly claims that IE8's recent achievement in web standards compliance is useless.

(note that the previous version of that webpage was more agressive, saying things like "You'll never find it using Safari, so get rid of it or get lost.")

★ "Instapaper restyled is a userscript that applies a new interface to the Instapaper service. It was inspired by Helvetireader and Instapaper Fluid."

★ "Après avoir lu un peu tout et n'importe quoi à son sujet, de « Wave va tuer HTTP » à « Wave est le remplaçant de Twitter, de Facebook, du mail, etc etc ». Restons sérieux un instant en se concentrant sur ce qu'est Google Wave : un protocole, une plate-forme et un produit."

★ "If you have a little more time to spare, I’m going to explain my belief that while netbooks have a nifty form factor, they’re not where the mobile computing action is."

I never really understood why so many people like netbooks. I mean, sure, netbooks are cheap, but the only people I've seen with that kind of computer usually have another desktop or laptop computer.

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★ "Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started."

★ "Duplicating the Finder’s functionality inside applications just so users can create new files is probably not the best possible solution to this problem. Let’s look at how other systems take care of this issue."

★ "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming languages. It is a fantastic resource if you are trying to compare programming languages quantitatively. Which, oddly, very few people seems to be interested in doing."