The wisdom of clouds

Ben’s launching cumul.us soon, you should ask for an invite, it’s pretty cool

Viewer Voices: Where We Respond To The Opinions Of Our Uninformed Viewers

Those fires in California? Clearly the work of al Qaeda.

The experts at Fox News are at it again, citing a four year old FBI memo as a possible al Qaeda link to the southern California wildfires. Way to stay on message, Fox News!

DBSlayer looks like a really sharp approach to database abstraction

Built on top of HTTP and JSON. Also, this is from the New York freaking Times of all places - when did they become a technology company? Gotta keep an eye on those cats…

A working Digg t-shirt. Because you needed another reason not to have sex this year.

Pixar has put a colleciton of their short films together on DVD

13 shorts, with commentary and all that jazz, coming November 6 (also on BlueRay, but who the hell has one of those things?)

Noted Islamic scholar and state representative Rex Duncan returns donated Quarans

Says that the Muslim holy book condones the killing of innocent people. Oh, wait, he’s not a scholar on anything other than trying to find new ways to insert his own head into his ass? Huh.

Harry learns about life and loss and leadership, and then he doesn’t die. The end.

—Chuck Klosterman, who doesn’t care about Harry Potter. Oh, and Dumbledore is gay.

Flare is an AS3 interactive visualization library that looks wicked brilliant

Easily create tree maps, charts, animated graphs, etc. From the Berkely Institute of Design.

Twittering wildfires

Twitter is finding some real usefulness amongst the digerati of SoCal - turns out “what am I doing right now?” is a pretty useful question when running from towering infernos