37signals: Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud A list of companies that have become successful without VC funding.

Stack Exchange Blog: The Trouble With Popularity Excellent thoughts on community moderation. "This is why community moderators have real power; they need that power to intervene, educate, and refocus the community's

How To Obtain The Size Of All Tables In A SQL Server Database Handy query to get a quick inventory of a database.

EDC Everyday Carry. Pictures of what people carry in their pockets. [via torrez]

Cooper Journal: Oops! I ruined your life. :) I agree that cutesy error messages are irritating. I'd rather see a more serious "we're on it" notice. Steven Fr

Marco.org: The next SOPA "So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) Great talk from Clay Shirky that tells some of the history behind SOPA and why it's dangerous. "[Media companies] want us all back on the couch

GigaOM: Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA "Once the market matures, the pirates go away. They always do. Legitimate markets work better than pirate m

Glue "Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites." Handy!

Port25’s Authentication and Spam Assassin Tool Good description of a handy tool that helps test mail server settings.

Chromeography Not only a fun site to browse, but a good example of taking group Flickr content elsewhere for a new experience.

Waxy.org: No Copyright Intended "Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something

InstaCSS: Instant CSS Documentation Search Does what it says on the tin. !important Webstock: Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda interviewed by Matt Haugh

Frugal Dad: Media Consolidation: The Illusion of Choice (Infographic) This puts the concentration of media into perspective. [via mlkshk] mlkshk: bubble

occuprint: Posters from the #Occupy movement

The Huffington Post: Militarization of Campus Police More thoughts on the UC Davis pepper spray incident and police militarization in general from a Davis faculty member. [via megnut]

Molly Rants: How Facebook is ruining sharing "I hope publishers will see that conscious sharing is better than passive sharing, and that content delivery is better than app delivery." Me too. Quantity of

Roderick on the Line You're probably already subscribing, but if not: this is the best podcast on the Internet. Merlin Mann and John Roderick discuss things. Humorous things.

Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 We've been using alpha and beta versions of jQuery Mobile at Fuelly for quite a while now. It's great to see it reach this milestone.

FT.com: Birth of the global mind "The global brain is still in its infancy. We can raise it to help us make a better world, or we can raise it to be selfish, unjust and short-term in its outlook."

Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition Draw something. Get a matching unicode character back. Fun! Mike Rundle: Crafting Subtle & Realistic U

Mozilla Hacks: insertAdjacentHTML() Enables Faster HTML Snippet Injection Nice little hack for faster dynamic HTML with JavaScript.

aaronland: Parallel Flickr Aaron Straup Cope of Flickr fame has put together some scripts to mirror your Flickr photos at a private domain. It uses Flickr auth and maintains privacy settings in the process.

The Best Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies in the Entire World "Holy Fucking Shit, these are good." ok, then. Bookmarking for future use.

MailChimp Voice and Tone Interesting look at how MailChimp helps their employees write for different types of communication with customers. Their blog is laid back and funny. Their tweets are focused and to the point.

Stack Overflow: Google Authenticator available as a public service? Some good information here about using Google's iOS Authenticator app to implement 2-factor authentication at any website

slight paranoia: Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy Vint Cerf on Google: "...we couldn't run our system if everything in it were encrypted because then we wouldn't know which a

money.js - javascript currency conversion library This library uses an API to get up-to-the-hour currency rates.

Occupy History: The front page of the New York Times on May 4, 1970... "Cities cannot 'come to the end of their patience' because they’re not people. Mayors and local officials can come to the end of their patience. So can cops. But

Matt Taibbi: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating "And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winne