Science is Satan

Movable Type now officially open source

In my mind, still the gold standard of weblog platforms, with multiblog, multiauthor and OpenID support out of the box.

Holovaty’s Django book has shipped

Just in time for Christmas! Hope you’ve got a big, square shaped stocking…

Top 20 albums of 2007: eMusic vs. iTunes

Agreed, with the exception of Panda Bear beats Modest Mouse. Sorry, a cheap Brian Wilson ripoff by a bunch of shoegazing Brooklyn hipsters does not beat PNW rock, especially with Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr on board.

They were completely propped up by a conflict of interest.

—uncov, regarding the fact that 46% of edgeio.com’s traffic came from Techcrunch. The balls on that Arrington guy.

Greg Allen rather neatly summarizes everything I hate about the New York Times travel section

“I realized that almost without exception, the “reason” to go is the opening at long last of that destination’s first “luxury” accommodations. Which seems about the dumbest reason I can think of for choosing where to travel.“

Mo’s bacon bar

Chocolate plus bacon equals WINNAH!

Greg Storey has a great bit on The Blog Council

“‘A professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging’ … Of course, these are the companies that should know right? I mean they’ve been using Trapper Keepers and Daytimers all their lives, so blogs are just like that right?”

Persai is a smart news aggregator that learns as you go

From the guys at uncov so it should be smarter than most. Or at least really snarky.

I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are just smarter. Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family. Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what’s important.

—Mark Zuckerberg, talking about the importance of only hiring young, technical people. Because someone over 30 just might have clued this dimwit in about what a boneheaded idea Beacon is.