40 cozy

Finally, a way to keep that 40 cool, down to the last drop

This just might nullify every fable ever written

Amazon launches Flexible Payments Service beta

Developer tools designed for payments, including micropayments. Look out, PayPal

XRAY is an absolutely brilliant bookmarklet for investigating DOM elements on a page

Seriously, how’d they do all that with javascript?

Two things I love about this video: the spinning beachball and the guy painting the progress bar down at the bottom.

The Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis about why humans can so easily distinguish between other humans and robots

Also applies to photorealistic computer animation

You tell me, what’s the most creepy thing about this. The “hair added” enhancement? That someone felt the need to add makeup and earrings to a toddler? That someone would actually pay $60 to do this to their own child?

The Microformats guys are working on social network portability

Of course, places like MySpace and Facebook have built multi-million dolllar business models on making sure that your profiles are *not* portable so, uh, good luck with this one.

The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later

Some really, really smart thoughts on the Netflix Prize and recommender systems in general.

Anymails visualizes email as organisms