- Jason Santa Maria: Reflections on Layer Tennis. Really, really great post on participating in Layer Tennis. I loved this. * SF Gate: Food, service uneven at Absinthe. A review of Top Chef participant Jamie “Top Scallop” Lauren’s San Francisco restaurant by Michael Bauer. Brutal. * John Resig: Determining Browser Market Share. Deep thoughts on measuring browser market share. * New York Times: Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries. Uncovered by researchers at the University of Toronto. Also read this followup from James Fallows. * Goodnight, Raleigh: Memorializing a Magnificent Oak and “The Great Pacificator”. A little local knowledge about Raleigh. * The Economist: Germany’s racy auto banks. * Tim Bray: On Rack. A nice, short introduction to Rack, the glue that provides an interface from Ruby applications to Web servers. * MySQL Performance Blog: PROCEDURE ANALYSE. Very useful for optimizing your MySQL schema. * Vanessa Fox: Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online. Advice on making data more searchable, pertinent to anyone publishing online. * Last.fm: Last.fm Radio Announcement. Users not in the US, UK, or Germany have to pay up to listen. Music licensing sucks. * LastFM Firefox Extension. Scrobbles Pandora tracks to Last.fm, for people like me who feel weird anytime they listen to a song and the data isn’t transmitted to Last.fm. * intranation: Development virtual machines on OS X using VMWare and Ubuntu. A clever alternative to MacPorts or Fink. * Trustico: Buy GeoTrust, VeriSign SSL Certificates At Cheaper Prices - Strategic Partner United States. I hate paying for certificates. These guys are cheap.