Save Usage Guides! Bryan Garner urges shoppers to ask about usage guides at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, two companies who consider them a "defunct category"

2D Spore Creature Creator My company's awesome creature creator, done in 2D.

Useful Copyediting Tips A list of tips to help ensure your copy doesn't embarrass you.

Screen Jelly A really slick, no-muss, no-fuss way to do quick screen video captures.

Reuters Handbook of Journalism Reuters has released its Handbook of Journalism for free online.

Web-Friendly Federal Data The federal government is releasing tons of data in web-friendly formats.

America's Oldest Restaurants BusinessWeek offers a slide show of America's oldest and still-running restaurants.

Movie Stills In Game Environments See the results of a competition to recreate iconic movie scenes in game environment engines. Neat!

Goodbye, Old School Coding Techniques Computerworld takes a look at old-school coding techniques that we're better off without.

Make Your Own Moleskine Grab a sewing machine and a cereal box, and get ready to make your own moleskine.

Regret The Error A blog devoted to newspaper corrections.

My Brute A cute little web fighting game, where you compete against other players by simply watching them duke it out.

How Not To Run A Forum: eBob eRobertparker.com moderator Mark Squires gets into a snipey, immature email conversation with Mike Steinberger. Tyler publishes the exchange.

Totoro Cream Puffs How to make Totoro cream puffs.

Strunk And White Is Wrong The Chronicle of Higher Education features an article about the many things wrong with Strunk & White's Elements of Style, which turns 50 this week.

"Locavore" Bittman Likes Endangered Fish Eat Me Daily covers the controversy brewing over Mark Bittman's use of red snapper, despite its endangered status and his newly found zealotry as ethical food advocate.

Twitter Meets Scala The twitter dev team discusses why they used Scala for certain back-end tasks.

Nine Common Words From Sci-Fi The Oxford University Press blog offers a list of words that came not from science but from sci-fi.

Really Bad Misprint See if you can spot the error before you see the zoomed-in version.

Inside The Mapparium The headquarters of the Christian Science Monitor features a globe you can stand in to see the earth without distortion.

Big Food = Big Tobacco [PDF] A paper by the Rudd instiute examines the similarities between the tactics of the food industry and the tobacco industry.

Book Thieves Financial Times looks at the world of book theft.

Piece-of-Cake iPhone Game Development A new program promises to make iPhone game programming a snap.

Charlie Brown, a la Frank Miller What if Frank Miller drew the Peanuts comics strips?

Congress Considers API Congress wants feedback on the best way to set up an API for access to the Thomas database, a notoriously clunky system.

Gallery Of Old Tech IBM has an "online" exhibit of old technology on their site. Also be sure to go to the Exhibits link to see more.

Reverse Dictionary Trying to figure out a word that means X? Try your luck with this reverse dictionary.

C.A.R. Hoare Says Null Reference A Mistake Computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare will present at QCon 2009 a paper saying that maybe his null reference idea wasn't such a great idea in retrospect.

Do Not Use This Many Puns What happens when a newspaper reporter decides that if one pun is okay, a zillion must be even better? Bad things.

Apple Fans Froth About Wired Article A recent Wired article used two quotes out of context to make a point near the end of the piece. Apple fans respond to the not-quite-slight by going crazy, as Apple fans are wont to do.

Octopus Vandalizes Aquarium An octopus climbed to the top of his tank at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and disassembled a valve assembly, flooding the room with 200 gallons of seawater.

Photos of Libraries Curious Expeditions dishes out book-nerd porn in the form of library photos.

Studying Broken Window Effect Do broken windows and other evidence of urban decay really foster crime? This study says yes it does. Actually, it says that when you clean up an area, crime goes down.

Creative Uses For Creature Creator A list of creative techniques people have come up with in Spore Creature Creator