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Lulu-esque self publishing, but with dedicated software to produce your book. Looks interesting. 
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“In the end, this means that really great coders will keep getting paid less than they are worth and average ones will keep getting paid more” 
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YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. 
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sed is my new best friend. This is very, very useful. 
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Colours svn/cvs diffs when you get them in your Thunderbird inbox. In a word: nice. 
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Confirms some things I discovered the hard way. 
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“…in some states… a sex offender might not have done anything really offensive.” Great analysis from Stephanie Booth of the dangers of blanket bans, and the complex depth to the concept of “sex offence”.