More of Bit.ly’s plans to analyse the link traffic. Its a good idea, much better than Digg votes, but I still wish it didn’t rely on fragile, centralised short URLs. §

iPhone SMS hack fixed with the 3.0.1 release. §

An Alien prequel movie. Sounds awful. Directed by Ridley Scott. Sounds fantastic. §

The Ann Arbor news site has adopted a blog-like river of news style. Effective and in tune with our short, modern attention spans. §

The Redmond bridge in Waterford which was replaced by the current Rice bridge. Redmond originally replaced old Timbertoes. §

Warts and all coding. The example is extreme and contrived but it is dead right. Get your code out there early and let the bazaar help you. §

HadoopDB is interesting. It places relational databases on servers and then orchestrates them using Hadoop and Hive. So you get the resilience of distributed, key/value datastores but the richness of relational, SQL databases. §

Photos of Waterford, Ireland from 1900 or so. §

Fantastic Mr. Fox the movie trailer. Hmm, not sure it matches my childhood memories of the book. §

David O’Dwyer of the Irish Times gets link loved by Josh Gruber of Daring Fireball. Nice one. §