links for 2007-09-05

• Meme Agora: Ruby Matters: A Place to Put Your Stuff
  (tags: ruby languages language advocacy programming **)
• YouTube – working of hard disk
  (tags: video hardware youtube digg technology toread cool towacth **)
• Erlang @ Google
  (tags: erlang video programming concurrency google towatch toread language *)
• Conspiracy Theory Rock
  (tags: humor conspiracy media video theory funny * towatch)
• Tortoise and Achilles: Observations from 10 Months at a Startup
  (tags: startup entrepreneur management startups lessons **)
• Squeak by Example
  (tags: squeak smalltalk book programming tutorial opensource books language **)
• Ask Reddit: I want to learn to program, and have NO experience. What language should I start with and why? (reddit.com)
  (tags: programming python education tutorial reddit tutorials learning computer **)
• 40+ Books For Professional Design & Development | Developer’s Toolbox
  (tags: books design webdesign typography resources color book grid **)
• Ionut’s WebSpace – » Automatically Upgrade Your WordPress
  (tags: wordpress plugin upgrade blog blogs web tutorials update **)
• 20 BitTorrent Tips and Tricks | TorrentFreak
  (tags: bittorrent howto tips torrent torrents p2p tricks download **)
• Jay Fields Thoughts: Rails: How we test
  (tags: testing ruby rails rubyonrails test tdd programming mocha **)
• Papers Please: Arrested at Circuit City
  (tags: freedom rights civilrights law crime business privacy news **)
• maps.amung.us
  (tags: blog blogging maps reference statistics tools traffic web ** web2.0 widgets)
• Foreign Policy: Condom Nations
  (tags: sex statistics health data visualization world condoms interesting **)
• sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand: Logging in Ruby on Rails
  (tags: rails logging rubyonrails howto **)
• Web Developer Toolbox | Tech Magazine
  (tags: developer web box tools reference tool development **)
• Code Beautifier:CSS Formatter and Optimiser . Optimizer based on CSSTidy1.3
  (tags: css optimization tools webdesign compression programming code beautifier design dev **)
• 7 Wonders Panoramas – The New 7 Wonders-Travel Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu – 360 degree Panoramas
  (tags: photography travel panoramas 3d photo photos interesting wonders **)
• Double Parity: Googling the Recent Web
  (tags: search google tips firefox lifehacker bookmark recent **)
• How to Ungoogle Yourself – wikiHow
  (tags: google privacy howto security tips ungoogle reference lifehacks identity **)
• J/Invoke | the easy JNI replacement
  (tags: jni java library windows development native programming dll **)
• google, Montessori, Larry Page, Sergey Brin
  (tags: montessori education google business amazon school success **)
• 17 WordPress Plugins For AdSense
  (tags: wordpress adsense plugins plugin google tools advertising blog **)
• Name that Color – Chirag Mehta : chir.ag
  (tags: color design tools reference webdesign javascript colour web **)
• A Realistic Back to School Guide for College Students – PaulStamatiou.com
  (tags: college school tips guide tech hardware geeks technology laptop **)
• Coding Horror: Choosing Dual or Quad Core
  (tags: cpu hardware performance core dual comparison blog parallel **)
• 10 Big Lessons from Little Kids at Personal Development with Ririan Project
  (tags: funny advice children lifehacks Success personaldevelopment **)
• 15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement
  (tags: photography photos blur techniques inspiration howto photo art **)
• Story Killers: Digg’s Bury Brigade vs. Reddit’s Downmod Squad
  (tags: toread digg reddit marketing blogging blogs articles **)