Old-media types don’t feel right about rewriting the copy of their competitors and calling it a story. Huffington glories in carving the meat out of a competitor’s story, throwing a search-engine optimized (SEO) headline on it, and posting it. She even claims to believe that she’s doing the originator a favor by sending traffic back to it via a crediting link.

—Jack Shafer’s somewhat backhanded compliment explaining the success of the Huffington Post.

The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.

— Dr. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON, on Real Time With Bill Maher (via inothernews)

Need a replacement power cord from HP? Here’s how they shipped one to a customer.

Stanford’s visualization group released a tool for cleaning and transforming data

All web-based, it takes care of the hard part of data processing and gives you data in a clean format. The demo looks pretty magical.

mirlin:

msnbc via ffffound
nuns having fun

[People] are thinking about getting healthier… everybody’s pooping more

—Oprah considers the benefits of veganism.

Microsoft announces an H.264 plug-in for Google Chrome

Oh, snap.

It always has been an embarrassing word. First it was embarrassing because bloggers were these dirty, horrible people, and then it was embarrassing because our grandmas have blogs, God bless them.

—Choire Sicha on the end of blogging.

Basecamp is now mobile

All HTML, all in the browser, no app required. Looks like it uses 37Signals’ mobile JavaScript framework.

The folks at Readability are moving beyond just a bookmarklet, they’ve completely rethought, well, everything. They’re now building a full-on time-shifting service, complete with apps powered by Instapaper and a subscription model that – get this – gives money back to the publishers. It’s so simple it’s almost absurd, yet brilliant.