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Cleans up your Mac desktop (or any folder) based on rules you write. Handy! [via 43 Folders]

Great tips for managing URLs/Redirection with Apache's cryptic but powerful htaccess. [via mathowie]

handy guide for installing/integrating subversion with the Mac Finder, and the svnX GUI.

Nice! This new feature at Flickr shows you which cameras are most used across Flickr photos. (Featured Model is a sponsored placement.)

fantastic tips for tuning web servers and applications for speed [via joshua]

Six Apart's social blogging platform Vox has been released to the public today. Its combination of public and private spaces based on friend networks makes it sorta like LiveJournal for the rest of us.

nice add-on for WordPress that lets you quickly jump to admin stuff like editing posts.

Ev starts a new chapter

Easy-to-install version of GPG for Mac folk.

I just tried Enigmail again after a couple years, and it actually works well. This plugin handles encrypting/decrypting email on the fly. (If you have GnuPG installed.)

"Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old." [via sterling]

rael and michael's startup has a blog now.

"...we are now about to vest in the President the power to order anyone -- U.S. citizen, resident alien or foreign national -- detained indefinitely in a military prison regardless of where they are -- U.S. soil or outside of the country." [via MeFi]

how new media stars like Ze Frank might be using media theory to connect with (manipulate?) audiences [via kottke]

looks like an interesting backup program that doesn't require you to shut down apps

the Bend Bulletin reports that local political coverage is all but dead in Oregon. [via OMI]

Hex the Mac color picker

handy tip for quick access to color picker, especially when combined with the HexColorPicker add-on

buy these geek shirts. !!! sudo buy these geek shirts.

There's a new version of SQL Server client tools that has better query integration (no more moving over to query analyzer). I'm still getting to know it, but so far I'm impressed.

good tips for speeding up Windows boot times

tons of data visualization ideas in one place. (also mentioned in Cal's talk.)

Cal's talk at fowa mentioned copious graphing for web ops. This was one of the tools he mentioned.

wikipedia article that includes Kollock's motivations for online contributions.

Mobile photography software from Yahoo. The auto-tagging is clumsy, but the tag-suggestion based on location looks nice.

Types of players in old-school MUDs--translates well to web application users.

Project Gutenberg: "This volume is a narrative of Scott's Last Expedition from its departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913."