// Internet Duct Tape

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.

• [AMAZON] Amazon Discounts: Secret Amazon Discount Finder, deallocker.com
  • Cool tool for finding discounted items at Amazon. Works in Canada. Also has a coupon blog.
  • (amazon, shopping, tips, 1583 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [AMAZON] Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools, lifehacker.com
  • If you’ve ever shopped on the Internet, then you’ve used Amazon. Here are ten tips to help you use amazon from building wishlists to finding discounts/free shipping/coupons to getting refunds for items you’ve bought.
  • (amazon, shopping, tips, 440 saves, 39 inbound links, 703 diggs)
• [BLOGGER] Jerry Springer For Programmers: Only A Matter Of Time, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • From the article: ” It’s awesome to get a free burrito every 11,429 times somebody decides to read your blog. But that awesomeness doesn’t translate well to full-time careers.”
  • (programming, blogging, techcrunch, codinghorror, 11 saves)
• [BLOGGING] More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant., techcrunch.com
  • Arrlington on the business of blogging. Very honest.
  • (blogging, business, 90 saves, 100 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] The Art Of Heresy (Or How To Thrive Under The Benevolent Rulership Of King Gabe Rivera), chartreuse.wordpress.com
  • From the article: ” If your audience can view you anytime, anywhere then you have to be good all the time.”
  • (blogging, media, 4 saves, 4 inbound links)
• [CODE] Forced To Write English Syntax Code – Simplicity or Burden?, codesqueeze.com
  • How being forced to write code in English makes things simpler for non-North Americans. You almost have to appreciate the strength of his opinion about the French…
  • (english, funny, programming, 8 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [CODE] The Programming Style that Saved my Marriage, ourdoings.com
  • Programmers get grumpy when interrupted. Functional programming is a style that handles interruptions better than procedural programming
  • (code, 2 saves)
• [COPYRIGHT] Free your mind, stevenpoole.net, via:codinghorror.com
  • Copyright should be renamed to RightToEat.
  • (copyright, writing, economics, 87 saves, 50 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [FACEBOOK] Facebook knows who you are, and that’s worth more than you think, paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
  • If you don’t think Facebook is going to be a profitable company, then you’re underestimating the value of identity.
  • (facebook, search, 24 saves, 29 inbound links)
• [FLICKR] The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications, flickrbits.com
  • Huge list of tools for working with Flickr
  • (flickr, 1354 saves, 17 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
  • And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
  • (gta, games, parody, 11 saves, 19 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [GEEK] stackoverflow, stackoverflow.com
  • New podcast by Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood and Joel Spolsky FTW
  • (podcast, codinghorror, joelonsoftware, 53 saves, 100 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [PHP] Rails for PHP Developers, railsforphp.com
  • Great idea – it looks like the PHP reference, but it shows you how to do the same task in Ruby.
  • (php, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, 25 saves, 12 inbound links)
• [SCREENSCRAPING] Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration, urbanhonking.com
  • Controlling Firefox using Ruby with the JSSH extension for screen scraping Javascript.
  • (firefox, javascript, automation, jssh, ruby, 133 saves, 23 inbound links)
• [TWITTER] Shout about the best of Houston at PlaceShout, blogs.chron.com
  • Interesting, like Twitter but for location. A bit rough around the edges, needs to support non-US zip codes.
  • (twitter, yelp)
• [WEB2.0] The noise in Web 2.0 is mainly a Tech Elite problem, vanelsas.wordpress.com
  • Real people don’t suffer from information overload because they can walk away from the computer.
  • (information, overload, 22 saves, 30 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [WEBDEV] Web pages have ‘come alive and started breeding’, telegraph.co.uk, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • Interesting idea: the design of the web page evolves based on how people interact with it.
  • (webdesign, 100 inbound links)
• [WINDOWS] Tray It, teamcti.com
  • Great little free windows application that lets you minimize ANY software in the system tray.
  • (windows, software, freeware, utilities, 400 saves, 69 inbound links, diggs)
• [WINDOWS] Upgrading from Vista to Windows XP: A Review, dotnet.org.za
  • Worth reading :)
  • (windows, microsoft, humor, 475 saves, diggs)
• [ZUNE] 5 reasons my Zune is dead to me, crave.cnet.com, via:raganwald.com
  • Remember the Zune? Me neither.
  • (zune, ipod, 7 saves, 22 inbound links, 3 diggs)

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