IE 8 performance improvements

Honestly, though, IE is so far behind that a 2.5x improvement in javascript performance isn’t much to crow about. Especially with what the Safari and Firefox teams have been demoing.

Cheap Shit Condos is my favorite new Seattle real estate blog

Sort of a foul mouthed LOLCats for the crappy condos that are going up all over town

We’re going to hell for this

Where is the true south? Sweet tea points the way.

The Carolinas represent.

Slate’s got a nice roundup of info visualizations through the years

Nothing terribly new, but a great primer on the genre of “infoviz” art with some nice historical perspective.

TraceMonkey is the new javascript interpreter built into Firefox 3.1 and it’s wicked fast

Using just-in-time compilation to speed up Javascript, in this case by about 80%

Cuba’s Angel Matos is facing a lifetime ban for deliberately kicking a referee in the face after being disqualified in a bronze-medal match.

IE Death March

End support for IE 6 by March, 2009. Just in time for my 30th birthday.

Daytum collects personal data about anything you can count

I was literally thinking just today how I’d love something like this. Given Nicholas Felton’s pedigree, with his annual reports starting in 2005, this should be awesome.

Calcium is a sixth taste?

Apparently a uniquely bitter taste that appears in most water in trace amounts as well as many vegetables.