Internet Explorer lays anchor in 1999, sets sail for the future

Best bit I’ve read yet on the IE 8 backwards compatibility stupidness

I work for an enterprise level integration company that is looking to attack the long tail of the market for point to point integration solutions.

—Delete

The Wall Street Journal may not be going but The Atlantic just dropped their pay wall

Sadly, not the entire archive, which you need to be a subscriber for, but every web article published since 1995 is up

Books that make you dumb

The one useful feature of Facebook - aggregating people to statistically mock them. Also, I love that “The Holy Bible” makes you dumber than not reading at all.

Feist plus pyrotechnics makes my day

How glass becomes a camera lens. Most fascinating thing I’ve seen since Mr. Rogers taught me how marbles are made. [via Daring Fireball]

So if Central Park is now known as “The Killing Fields”, or “The Ghastly Black Glass Ocean”, then tell us. Those quotes are extraordinarily clumsy (and the card itself is typographically unconvincing).

—William Gibson’s least favorite part about Cloverfield

Last.fm will stream full tracks and albums

Agreement with the big four labels includes an ad revenue model that will share with artists based on how often a track gets played

New York Times is among group investing $30M in WordPress

Will hold a minority stake in the company, allowing them to expand past blogging

Poynter interviews Adrian Holovaty about launching Everyblock

Looks great, launches this afternoon