Comment on this article and help us with our testing | Help | guardian.co.ukWell that was fun. "In order to improve stability and response times on commenting we've made some changes to the flow of comments through the application. [...] Please post a comment below to help us test the changes – this entire thread [...]

Kindle formatting for web geeks"When I was preparing my short story The Variant for the Kindle, I found a lot of confusing and contradictory information about how to do the formatting — much of it on the official help site. So I’m writing up this quick guide aimed at somebody with roughly my level of [...]

The importance of being Ernest | Alison Flood | Books | guardian.co.uk"After 11 years of toil, Charles Bicht has finally had his day. Dressed in a safari suit, the white-bearded Floridian this Saturday beat 123 other hopefuls to triumph in the annual Hemingway lookalike contest." …And a wonderful accompanying photo. (competition ernest_hemingway fun ) Time [...]

A tale of two languages"While I was at OSCON I found myself chatting with various non-perl and ex-perl folks and many of them had the same impression of Perl as a great language for hacking out short scripts to get stuff done, right now and possibly under severe time pressure. For these people, those scripts [...]

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Editorial – The Google Algorithm – NYTimes.comThat not-very-interesting NYT editorial on regulating Google. As satirised on Search Engine Land. (google nytimes regulation ) The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government RegulationA smart piece of writing satirising a New York Times editorial on regulating Google. (google humour nytimes regulation ) BBC – BBC [...]

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How A "Free" iPhone Game Suckered Me Out Of $190"Today, iPhone app developer PlayMesh took multiple unauthorized in-app currency purchases from my 7 year old son, while he played their Fishies app on our iPad." Mike Rohde finds that Apple's easy purchasing seems to have some very serious flaws. (app_store ipad shopping ) "yeah thats [...]

Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin | Mike Industries"This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most important part of their site: the story page. The result is something unlike anything any other major news site is offering and is a bold step in a direction no competitor has gone down (yet): the elimination [...]