Reblinks Hot List

Rod Begbie: Massive amounts of awesomeness abound. Three solid minutes of musical greatness.

Andy Baio: starring John C. Reilly, Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, and Jack Black as Jesus

Helvetireader, a minimal interface theme for Google Reader

Cameron Moll: If you use Google Reader for RSS feeds, have a look at Helvetireader by Jon Hicks. "I was going for minimal, inspired partly by Times, a newspaper style RSS reader, and the postcards that came with the (Deluxe!) Helvetica Film DVD." More about it on Jon's site.

Rod Begbie: Rather gorgeous minimalistic skin for Google Reader, by Jon Hicks. Had to tweak it to get my all-important "Mark All as Read" button, but apart from that, perfet.

Venice is drowning

Nelson Minar: I really need to get there before it becomes unviable

Python 3.0 Release

Rod Begbie: The backwardly-incompatible "Python 3000" gets its release. Will be interested to watch and see how fast code transitions to the new form.

Simon Willison: Python 3.0. “We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.”

Win Ben Stein’s mind

Twitter Needs Two Channels

Mark Hopkins: Shared by Rizzn I definitely like the concepts here. going to sleep on it. In thinking a bit more about cafe-shaped conversations, I’m wary of how Twitter (and by twitter, I mean one-to-many communications platforms, because let’s agree that Twitter is generation 1 of something not yet...

(jeff)isageek: In thinking a bit more about cafe-shaped conversations, I’m wary of how Twitter (and by twitter, I mean one-to-many communications platforms, because let’s agree that Twitter is generation 1 of something not yet fully realized), wary of how Twitter can become quite a lot of noise and not enough...

rsnap

Joshua Schachter: rsnap is a backup and snapshot utility based on rsync.

Jeremy Zawodny: it's an ad-hoc version of rsnapshot, basically... cool!

Jason Nelson's "I Made This. You Play This. We Are Enemies."

Andy Baio: an exploratory Flash game/poem with levels based on sites like Metafilter and Fark

Getting OpenID Into the Browser

Simon Willison: Getting OpenID Into the Browser. David Recordon makes the case for online identity management as a key browser feature (I like the “your browser is currently locked” concept), and argues that Gears is in a great position to deliver it.

Andy Baio: the best way to drive mass adoption, since it's such a difficult concept to understand otherwise

Ned Batchelder: Internet explorer mystery #1376

Les Orchard: "In IE, the redefinition of really() is interpreted and used even though it is inside a block of code that is not executed. Wonder of wonders..."

Simon Willison: Internet explorer mystery #1376. IE executes function definitions inside an “if (0)” block. That frightens me.

Social Media Aggregators: Distraction or Consolidation?

(jeff)isageek: Working with social media poses a considerable problem. In most cases, social networks were not designed specifically with professional applications in mind. Look at MySpace and Facebook, two of the real heavy hitters. Both essentially began as places for friends and family to connect and share....

24 ways: User Styling

Jon Hicks: My article on 24ways is up! It explains how to start making your own site skins, like Helvetireader

Simon Willison: 24 ways: User Styling. The web geek advent calendar is up and running again this year, with a striking new design.

Computer speeds

Nelson Minar: Great details of how CPU, cache, RAM, and bus interact for different latencies.

Rod Begbie: The latencies of the modern computer laid bare. "Waiting for a hard drive seek is like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and three months."

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress

(jeff)isageek: By Jean-Baptiste Jung RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs...

Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton available Feb 2009

Cameron Moll: Mark Boulton has announced his self-published Designing for the Web will be available February 2, 2009. I recall Mark and I chatting in London a couple years ago about self-publishing, as both of us were kicking around the idea at the time. Good to see him following through with it.

Magic/Replace

Simon Willison: Magic/Replace. More inspirational magic from the team at Dabble DB. Be sure to watch the (short) demo video.

Andy Baio: spreadsheet manipulation built on the underrated DabbleDB; don't miss the demo [via]

compfight

Iron Man behind-the-scenes photos by Jeff Bridges

Cameron Moll: Iron Man behind-the-scenes photos by Jeff Bridges. Via DF.