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Git is another option for version control that might take a little more of a learning curve than the more widely appreciated Subversion.

Some good tips about buying, selling, and flipping websites.

Richard Rutter proposes some business models for font foundaries in The Future of Web Font Embedding. He’s right, the horse has bolted and foundaries should be looking at ways to capitalise on the opportunity rather than bemoan their customers as potential thieves.

Checkout and Simple Pay from Amazon offer the ability to use Amazon’s shopping cart facility in your website or to sign into Amazon remotely and Amazon handles the process itself. (via TechCrunch)

At what point would a tax hike be high enough to make you work less or move overseas?

I’ve been living under a tree in a corporate office space for the last month but Silverback’s release still made a splash. Clearleft’s spontaneous unobtrusive usability testing software. Well worth your time to try it out.

Procrastination is spending 30 minutes looking for the right pen, among other things.

Ribbit, the Flex based Internet telephony company based in Silicon Valley, has been acquired by British Telecom for $105 M.

After the news earlier today that Babbel received significant funding, maybe there is money in Flex development after all? :)

Om Malik has more.

Do you work on the weekends? Do you find yourself more or less productive on weekends?

Living on the Edge - a presentation by Danny O’Brien from opentech 2008. An interesting look at the World Wide Web. This talk is originally discussed in his previous blog post.

Productivity studies really show that you need to ask questions the next time you’re confronted with the latest new and sexy productivity study. Ask if it solves your personal problem.

If you’ve been off the radar for a few days you might have missed the launch of Google Knol - kind of like an accountable monetized version of Wikipedia.

I’m always talking about context on the web, and I see Paul Boag’s talking about context too. I say content plus context is king, and Paul says content is dead, long live context. I think we’re discussing the same thing. Who else get’s the context conversation? Hands up.

How to Write with Style by Kurt Vonnegut.

Patterns can be hard to break and hard to build, but if we give ourselves cues and reminders they are much easier to develop.