• russell davies: death to innovation
  Yes. Very much this. Spend as much time and money on ensuring you meet the basic minimums your customers expect as you do on innovation. Do this on a *ongoing* basis. Revisit what you've already build. Spend money on building it again, better.

• buger/gor · GitHub
  This is a tool that will take traffic that's hitting your live server, and replay it against other environments – effectively conducting as-live testing against other systems. This could be very useful indeed.
• Lyke-Wake Dirge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  I turned this up a few years back, and then forgot about it. I have uses for it, and don't want to forget again.

• Frank Chimero × Blog × The Inferno of Independence
  This is some utterly splendid writing on, well, I guess it's on work, creativity, and loneliness.

• View Park Sloper walletpen by OneStarLeatherGoods on Etsy
  Quite tempted by one of these – a bit bigger than I like my wallet to be, but I like the idea of being able to keep a Field Notes notebook in there without it getting dog eared.

• Shahr-e Sukhteh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.

• Elephant cognition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Elephants are jut awesome.
• Scientific proof that creative people have messy desks | Business News | Business and Finance News | | Herald Sun
  Vindicated at last!

• Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut : The Salt : NPR
  Weird and funny, although not, I imagine, if it happens to you.

• Another Lifeless Planet Found
  A beautiful slice of perfectly bleak writing.

• HOWTO: Boot your Raspberry Pi into a fullscreen browser kiosk | Wired Watershed
  Might be handy.

• What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences. : AskReddit
  Some of these are particularly good.