Interesting results from Google and Bing (Microsoft) on the effects web-page speed has on users. Interestingly page-weight increase has little effect while server-delays and chunking-content have large effects. Google has also released “Make the web faster“. §

100 science related Twitter accounts. @BadAstronomer is a good one. §

The Irish presence in the TechCrunch UK Europa awards. §

I still haven’t got FriendFeed into my daily routine but it now has file attachment supports. I’m sure it will be useful one day. §

Woah, just realised Bunk, from The Wire, is in Hackers. Found this out after hurling, the Irish past-time, not the sport, over The Social Network movie proposal. Aron Sorkin is awesome but please don’t do this movie. §

Lovely shot of Victoria Falls on Bing today. §

Turns out failure doesn’t teach you much. Only success does. §

Removing password-masks from web forms is going to be a lot harder than Jacob thinks. I ran across a site that did it awhile back and had to think long and hard whether the website was safe or not (it was, but my initial impression was that it was unsafe.) People do expect passwords to be masked. §

Some tech and decision details on the crowd-sourcing MPs Expenses project from the Guardian and Simon Willison. Django and Amazon EC2 were used. §

An overlooked problem of CSS sprites is that while the image may compress well and download fast it must be uncompressed on the client side to be used and this can take up inordinant amounts of memory. §