An uber cool use of web services, Amazon has released the "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)" web service, it's in limited beta right now.
Check it out.
A Spec-tacular Failure - A rant by Jeff Atwood on why the ID3 spec totally suxx.
Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge? - A good overview of google code base.
An Idiot's Guide to Neural Networks - Something a programmer can use.
What's new in JavaScript 1.7 - Looks like they took a lot of pages out from a Lisp book :)
Code checkins after 5 P.M have higher probability of breaking the build - Interesting.
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math - I've been reading a lot of CS papers lately and I can feel the pain.
Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming - Programmer hierarchy, hilarious!
Is Kevin Rose of digg.com really worth 60 million USD? - Jason from 37signals.com and Scott Rosenberg of salon.com comment on this business week article.
Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft - Nothing more to add.
Looks like Vista still has some security issues
Lenovo preloads Suse Linux on Laptops - Could this be the small crack that opens the floodgates to wider alternative OS adoption?
The seven deadly sins of programming - Nice series of articles by Eric Gunnerson.
Getting system level access from a limited account in WinXp - This video shows how you can get "system" level access very easily on a WinXp box. Looks totally possible. The basic crux is that we run a scheduled task that launches command prompt, since scheduler is run by the system account, we get a command prompt that is owned by system!!
Google's Bigtable - I had seen this before while reading about google code base. But this is a nice technical overview of the google system for storing large amounts of semi-structured data. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to work at Google.
ZuluPad - The personal wiki notepad. Looks interesting.
Jakob Nielsen on screen resolution and page layout - Always a crucial decision, web design guru Jakob Nielsen offers some advice.
Schrödinger's cat is not dead. - Funny, if you know the story behind schroedinger's cat.
How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal - Wow, finally all the univeristy education put to use. Really geeky stuff. The guy basically built a directional antenna but the way he did it is a very interesting read.
How to make a corporate butt pucker - Rick really makes the corporate butt pucker... LOL
The most important software innovations - I found the section on software patents and non-innivations very interesting too.
Feed2JS - Incorporate any RSS feed into your web page easily.
TunnelVision - A really wierd utility that provides security by hiding the entire screen except the area around your cursor.. LOL
Ruby books sales pass Perl - Interesting commentary by O'Reilly
Get Google spreadsheet and writely invitations - For free.
ATA Over Ethernet - Putting hard drives on the LAN. About a year old but still a very informative read.
Wanna know who's ripping off your content? - This site can be used for some very interesting stuff. I think it may just be using the google related pages tech underneath, but the results looked good at first shot.