One of the world’s best violinists poses as a street musician and plays a 3.5 million dollar violin in a Metro station. What happens? Probably the best article I’ve ever read from a newspaper. Hat tip: Paul.

When You Can’t Get Started Writing. I found this through the tag surfer.

As much as I dig it seems on LinkedIn you can add connections with amazing ease, but I have not been able to find any place in the interface to remove a connection.

Cacti server monitor, to check out later.

Nice overview of different Web Design Patterns. Happy 4th!

I got the scoop that Webshots has a new beta experiment up called Webshots Shoebox which is like a universal photo aggregator mashup. Get the bookmarklet and it’ll all make sense. I noticed it imports tags from Flickr too. They have a blog to engage the conversation, so go check it all out. (The blog is on WordPress, of course.) Accord to Alexa Webshots.com has the #58 most traffic in the world. (Slashdot is #1,421.) Hat tip: Narendra.

Niall finds some holes in a GoDaddy press release about blogging. I have a ton of domains with them, but their blog actually scares me a little.

phpOpenTracker is an OS framework for tracking website traffic that looks like it has some interesting features. Anyone else have any favorites for tracking stats?

Rico is another open source AJAX library whihc has some nice demos. Hat tip: Jeff Veen.

Comparing the ad relevancy of Google AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Network ads

I would be remiss to not point out fellow developer Alex’s new launch of the online aggregator Feed Lounge. I must still have a little country left in me, because whenever I hear the word “feed” I think the food you give the pigs and horses. But it’s good for bloggers too, and Alex’s new endeavor has the finest interface I’ve seen yet on an online aggregator. It’s a closed beta right now, so you can’ try it out yet, but you can go admire how their entire site is built in WordPress. I think it worked especially well for their FAQ section, maybe we should do that on wordpress.org. I wonder if this will be a quick flip?

Andy is doing some sort of weird remote commenting with Sxip thing, if you’re into that you might want to drop by.

Dating an Apple Developer, which is somewhat generally applicable. Hat tip: Mr Haughey.

The Lifecycle of Bloggers.

Even though I’ve stepped down as the organizer for all of the Meetup groups I was involved in, they kept bugging me every few days to “be an organizer” for the very groups I had left. Want to delete yourself from Meetup entirely? Here’s the remove from Meetup link.

Has anyone else started seeing Adwords with city names under them? I just saw one like this “Got a favorite burrito? Vote for your favorite burrito in the San Francisco Bay Area! www.burritobot.com San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA” when I searched for burrito.

How to disable GreaseMonkey, now if only Google would let us disable Autolink.

Google Evite and look at the second hit. It’s about time for another party, we’re about to hit half a million downloads since we started tracking.