The quality of the generated HTML is poor and we need to be able embed custom stylesheets … and do something about those nasty URLs!
A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we’ve come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.
Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?
Who Owns Your Browser revisited.
Minimalist Google Reader theme with a focus on typography and removal of administrative debris. I just now installed it and passed quickly through my feeds but that’s all it took. This thing is gorgeous:

All sidebar and other navigation is completely gone, so be sure to hit ? (or i? with Vimium installed) for a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Google’s shipping official beta builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux. I’ve been using Chromium for a few months now and it’s definitely become my favorite browser. It needs a flash blocking extension and an ad blocker. I’m using userscripts for both but they’re a little janky.
This is pretty rad. You can do web searches and whatnot without leaving a command line style interface but you can also do stuff like read news feeds. Check it:

I’d love to settle into this kind of workflow but these shell interfaces always have one thing or another wrong with them. Maybe this is The One. We’ll see.
Big giant list of articles, essays, tutorials, and tech talks on making the web faster. This is part of a larger Google Code project that asks, “what would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine?”
A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and evolution of the google file system (GFS). Really good interview. They’re fairly critical of the original design and how GFS is being used today. There’s also some discussion of an entirely new and incompatible version of GFS, designed from the ground up for the types of workloads GFS is being used for today.
It was terrifying to think that they may have actually considered making the page more edgy in some retarded acknowledgement of bling.com. Best redesign ever.
The Google Wave demo blew me away but I think Anil gets a lot right here. If the past is a good predictor of the future, Wave is a little too orphaned, a little too complex, and doing a little too much to be adopted quickly on any kind of large scale.
Good writeup on the rise of document and columnar databases, including Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere.
Interesting. I’ve been using the jquery-1.2.3.js hosted on google code for a few months now. Maybe I should have read the TOS…
What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.
Stephen O'Grady with the obligatory Q&A, which is excellent as always.
The Python REPL running on Google’s infrastructure.
Ian Bicking: “Many people are excited about how far up you might be able to scale something based on App Engine, but I’m excited about how far it could be scaled down.”
Christmas in Python land! Run Python/WSGI code on Google’s infrastructure. This is an incredibly H U G E win for the Python web community and further validates WSGI’s architectural awesomeness.
I’m apparently the last person on the internet to see this. The rise of internet culture as recorded on Usenet. It’s beautiful, really.
Watch tweets pop up around the country on a google map as people comment on the goings-on of Super Tuesday.
You’ve got to be kidding me…
I would use this ASAP if not for the privacy requirements around the data I’m charting. There’s really no good general purpose graphing libraries that use nice and simple vector shapes and styles.
Thomas Wouters covers a ton of ground (quickly) on lots of Python’s interesting features. This may be the quickest way for newbies (or refugees) to come up to speed with the language.
I’m convinced that anything health related will be a tough space. It’s a bit surprising at how little the Google Health team put out, though, given that Bosworth has one of the best track records in technology. Weird.
Best idea ever. EVER!
Boo – links are made to be followed.
Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.
Ouch! That’s not only evil, it’s dumb. gasp
ABC’s Bob Woodruff got a camera in there somehow..
On Google and other things..
could be useful…
“Jim Gray reminded me that TerraServer does offer SOAP interfaces. And yet those interfaces demonstrably have not inspired a flurry of innovation. Why not?”
How cool is this?
Google for president!
All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..
Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.
Adam Bosworth on the Gillmor Gang.
Howard Stern and journalists throw some jabs at Google.
hahah ahahahah ahahah ahahaa! BBbwwwwhhahahahaaa! ha. hhhaaa. huuh…. ohhhhhh..
Is google the next netscape?
perfect..
Bwwwaaahahahaaa.
Some more speculation about a Google Browser.
21 Reason’s Google will never hire me.
Tips and techniques for helping Googlebot. If you are a symantic markup perfectionist, you probably already have most of these right.
This could be really really really big.
I need to send this link to my mom..