The Fark.com founder tells a great story about his experience fighting a blatant patent troll.

"I’m paying $368 a night for a hotel room, and this is how I get treated."

A comprehensive look at why PHP is just a bad language.

Why Facebook wanted Instagram: It's a simple app that does one thing really well, and its users love it.

An innovative idea to get people to hang out near (and purchase things from) vending machines.

The old paper mill's underground tunnels were also reused to bring in water for cooling.

"A man in Chittagong, Bangladesh...agreed to do 200 fake write-ups for $100. Within days, rave reviews for the company started popping up online."

Marco Arment of Instapaper and Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard are featured as successful one-man tech start-ups.

"Kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison, but it’s an interesting snapshot. One technology waxing, one waning."

4G does not mean what you think it means.

Nice roundup of the current iPhone and iPad rumors.

The HTML5 approach to headings vs. the traditional HTML approach.

"If you have secrets to share and can't trust the people you're sharing with, there's little technology that can help you."

"The meme about Google+ Circles is that it beats Facebook on privacy because it gives us upfront control over whom we share with. That’s true: Every time I share something I make a decision about whether to share it with the public or some of my circles. That is better, clearer, and easier than digging into Facebook’s settings once and for all to silo my world."

I've recently been noticing more quality content on Tumblr thanks to NPR, MGSiegler, USA.gov and other "serious" users, in contrast to the hordes of "F*** Yeah!" tumblelogs.

Pinboard, Instapaper, and several other (innocent) sites are down due to the FBI's seizure of dozens of web servers.

"Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to seize servers used by another DigitalOne customer... but they seemingly took a lot more servers that happened to be physically near the server(s) they were looking for."

John Gruber: "Will the iPad’s long-term share be more like the iPod’s or the Mac’s? High-end and market-dominant? Or high-end but niche?"

Andy Baio: "clownpenis.fart may soon be a reality."

Could Facebook compete with Apple's App Store?

RSS is not dead.

A kickstarter project to bring letterpress typesetting to an iPad app.

Will Apple's new campus stifle innovation in the long run?

Good explanation of the technical side of Bitcoins.

Find me on Untappd as "taestell".

"About 50 percent of Apple Store customers who need to get their iPhones swapped have never plugged them into iTunes after the initial activation and sync."

Another take on the two different ways users "favorite" tweets on Twitter.

Good tips for new Pinboard users.

"The 25 most used passwords? seinfeld, password, winner, 123456, purple, sweeps, contest, princess, maggie, 9452, peanut, shadow, ginger, michael, buster, sunshine, tigger, cookie, george, summer, taylor, bosco, abc123, ashley, bailey"

"It’s the lesson that so many hardware and platform vendors can’t seem to learn: the pretty skin isn’t why people like Apple products, and applying a pretty skin over your products won’t make them compete better with Apple’s."

"Does time move from right to left or left to right?"

Anil Dash explains why he "favorites" things online.

"You can use your phone while it's being synced with iTunes."

"Comments fail because when people believe that they can hide behind a cloak of anonymity they decide that they can be as mean or nasty that they want."

“One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other.”

"I can’t think of a single telecom service that is as restrictive as the phone number: email can be accessed from any device, Skype makes apps for nearly every platform, IM works across any number of clients, there are web-based messaging solutions that transcend platforms entirely."

"The total time taken to respond to an email is often MORE than the time it took to create it."

"There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to 'Philosophy.'"

"As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3."