Another rad interactive infographic from the NY Times. I do get fed up with clients constantly mentioning the Times' flashier stuff as and example of what they're looking for ("Okay, fine. Do you have another four grand?"), but it's hard to argue that they don't make the best stuff out there. With this one, I especially had fun watching the amount of time each group sleeps. Watch the whole chart lurch toward late night for the 15-24 demographic. Expected, but still funny. (via Dan Benjamin.) (#)

A lot of stunt footage fails to impress, but I am floored by Danny MacAskill's skill. And as Andrew Leonard notes, it's his decency (the red light shot is cute, sure, but I especially love the bit of him replacing the traffic gate after biking up its length) that in part sets this clip apart. That and the song. And the several clips of shocked bystanders going all "WTF?" after the fact. Oh - and that thing with the tree. (#)

Oh, now you're just taunting me. I'm always telling people that the coolest thing about vi is that it's everywhere and that you have to do precious little to reasonably configure it. But now I'm finding all these indispensable plugins. And I'll be forced to install them on every server I ever touch. What a bother. Really. (#)

A look at Twitter's current architecture and a few notes on the lead architect's plans for the future. The most interesting bit for me: "Everything is kept in RAM and the database is just a backup." Crazy. (via Willison.) (#)

I dare say I've never linked to a Smashing Magazine article, but here's one I can really get behind. A pretty comprehensive primer on all of the CSS3 rules worth using. The most useful part for me: which browsers currently support each tool. (#)

A lovely little bash script that exposes a simple HTTP request syntax for using curl on the command line. I can see myself using this a lot. (via Simon Willison.) (#)

This is gonna be really big news. Yahoo! is opening up a treasure-trove of geo-relational data that can be queried through what looks to be a really easy-to-use API. Know the city your photo comes from, but want to figure out the state, the country, the continent? That's just one use case. Can't wait to dream up some others. (via Jeff Croft.) (#)

The best use of Flash I've seen in a long time. A visualizer for Twitter messages that's capable of working in full screen. Hook this puppy up to a monitor at your next geek event and watch as your attendees get sucked into the resultant feedback loop. How wonderfully anti-social! (#)

I spend a chunk of pretty much every day thinking about the user interfaces that Category 4 clients see, so I found this look at the Twitter admin site quite interesting. It's way more barebones than I expected. (#)

I like what this guy is trying to explain almost as much as I like how he does it. He's not really answering the question "What is programming like?" He's answering "Why do no two programmers ever produce the same work?" It's a great analogy. (#)

I've read a lot about monitor and video color display in my day, but this is a new one on me. Turns out if you reduce the quality of an images blue channel, no one will ever notice. Same, to a certain extent, with red. But mess with the greens and you've got a problem. Fantastic stuff. (#)

Little cardboard robots are helped by passers-by in their journey from one end of Washington Square Park to the other. "The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people's willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone." Grad student much? I thought so. Still, this is one rad little project. (#)

Israeli DJ Kutiman takes videos blends amateur music footage from YouTube into a PoMo dance party. Really great stuff. (via Kubicek.) (#)

Now here's a bookmarklet I'll actually use. From arc90, this tool takes that article you're reading at the Times and strips out everything but the title and the article content. No ads, no extraneous razmatazz, and no fuss. The only dissapointing part is that it removes story-related photos unless they're actually in the article body. (via kottke.) (#)

Weston Nielson – who as far as I can tell doesn't have a personal site – recently released this handy little app that lets you set up cron jobs that act on your Django views, admin commands, or other scripts, all from within the built-in admin interface. I've never minded setting up cron schedules, but for a site with lots of periodic configuration, this little puppy could turn out to be a huge help. (via TWiD.) (#)

University Physics Professor James Kakalios attempts to explain how the powers of Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan could maybe kinda be explained by quantum mechanics. "Not strictly correct from a Physics point of view, but very cool nonetheless." Yeah, that's what I thought. (via Dan Benjamin.) (#)

Salon's Andrew Leonard breaks down Obama's proposed budget and manages to get me totally pumped up in the process. One commenter in particular hits the nail on the head. Watching Obama is like watching a Chess Master. (I should point out, though, that Checkers played correctly is nearly as complex as Chess.) (#)

This can't be real, right? It's just way too…what's the word I'm looking for? Intense? Yes. Indeed. (via Jason.) (#)

Origami artist Sipho Mabona details the history of the Asics Corporation in – what else? – folded paper. The writers also deserve much of the credit; pay attention to the unique narrative turns sprinkled throughout the story. An absolutely stunning corporate movie. (#)

Come on, people! 256kbps standard, no DRM, a downloader that auto-adds stuff to iTunes for you, daily deals on albums that are frequently set at 99¢ or $1.99. What more could you ask for? So start buying! (#)