• Initial Release Of Moneta: Unified Key/Value Store API

    A new library from Yehuda Katz that seeks to provide a unified interface for key/value stores, meaning you can treat memcached and any other similar caching or database system as a ruby hash.

  • Twitter OAuth Spotted in the Wild

    Excellent news. Hopefully soon we can get away from the ridiculous situation where every new twitter app wants to know my password. Or in other words, those of us who care about security can actually start using new twitter apps again.

  • Replacing ads with art

    “Add-Art is an interesting Firefox extension which takes AdBlockPlus one more step forward and tries to replace the ads with a different art exhibit every 2 weeks.”

  • WhatTheFont for iPhone

    Recognises fonts in photos taken using an iPhone. Looks handy for people like me who have a poor memory for font names.

  • WordPress Art Direction plugin

    Allowing per-post styling for wordpress, so each post’s permalink page can have distinctive styling. Could be very handy and liven up the blog world quite a bit.

  • The REST of the Cloud

    James Governor takes a conversation we had in the pub the other day and turns it into an extended comment on avoiding the complexity-for-its-own-sake end of the Web Services world, and looking at how to keep it simple.

  • Amish Hackers

    Kevin Kelly looks at technology adoption among the Amish. Fascinating.