• The Bastards Book of Photography by Dan Nguyen
  This looks great.

• Sky City: Chinese company proposes world’s tallest building
  A new tallest building is not that interesting. What is interesting is that they're saying that can build it in 90 days.

• The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) | NCZOnline
  I would absolutely kill to be certain that from 1:30 to 5:30pm I would not be interrupted by anyone, and could just get on with work. If I could implement just one recommendation from this (very resonant) article at my company, this would be it. Hack days, meeting free days, these would be lovely, but the really big one would be interruption free time.

• Has L.A. changed since the 90s? – losangeles | Ask MetaFilter
  A hundred-year history of LA. Makes the place sound interesting.

• LeakedIn: Is your password safe?
  Here's a good tool that will let you check if your password was among those exposed by linked.in earlier this week. FWIW, even if your password is not in the leaked lot, I would suggest changing it anyway, as linked.in have been recently proved unsafe.

• 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
  Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
• The world’s worst password requirements list
  Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
• Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
• cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
  The design of street food culture.

• EightMedia/hammer.js · GitHub
  JS library to handle multi-touch inputs on mobile devices. Oh look, you've all gone to sleep. Don't care this'll be be handy for work.

• best practices – What sysadmin things should every programmer know? – Server Fault
  This is all good stuff.
• Meshu – Welcome
  Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkins. Lovely.
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
  Er, yes, this exactly.
• Netherlands rejects Acta, and forbids any similar legislation (Wired UK)
  Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough spine to do the same…

• UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
  The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks.
• Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
  Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.

• Germany sets new solar power record, institute says | Reuters
  Just in case you can't be arsed to click though: Germany met 50% of it's national energy needs with completely clean energy at peak sunshine hours on Friday and Saturday. This doesn't mean that we're quite ready to get rid of other power sources yet, but seriously, if this is possible now, perhaps it's time for us to spend a bit more cash (read: any) developing solar power systems? Who knows how fast we might get to the point where many nations could power themselves with solar energy?
• Cinnamon And Nutmeg Iced Coffee, by Tom Francis
  This does sound tasty.