best tweet ever man

Best tweet ever, man

Best tweet ever, man
This is great, a visualization of checkins at various social services over SxSW using data from vicarious.ly. It seems like they could have eliminated the also-rans like BlockChalk, Fwix and Brightkite and maybe zoomed the map in a bit, but I really dig this.
Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we can do. They’re the ones who are happy with the web as a market for bullshit.
—Right on, Brother Gruber
Area comedy website switches to snake-based web framework
The Onion tech team has a great writeup on why they switched from Drupal to Django
Wait for the Kashi (via Couch)
This content aware fill feature demo from the upcoming Photoshop 5 looks amazing. Reminds me of Deckard’s Esper machine.
I’m probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone’s anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I’ll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple’s next revolutionary computing platform.
First: Instapaper is definitely coming to iPad.
Second: Instapaper is coming to iPad very soon. Possibly even on day one — yes, I’m going for it — but that’s optimistic.
Awww, yeah.

No doubt (via Josh)

Yahoo released a new iPhone app today called Sketch-a-Search (iTunes link) that lets you circle an area on a map that you want to focus your search on. This obviates the need to know neighborhoods or even current location, a very handy feature when traveling.
Joel Johnson masterfully takes on our digital and analog impermanence.
Ignore the domain and go ahead and read this (skip the dumb comments). More technology writing – hell, more writing – should be as thoughtful.