Quoted: Viewfinder searches Flickr's four billion photos in a snap to bring you the images you need. You can search tags, titles and descriptions and sort by most interesting, most relevant or most recent.

Viewfinder also helps you find images with Creative Commons licenses and generates attribution text for you. Read on for more, or watch the video tutorials.

Cool images culled from the martian landscapes

Quoted: Build dazzling color schemes with software from ColorSchemer

security best practices

quoted: Here at the Microsoft Security Response Center, we investigate thousands of security reports every year. In some cases, we find that a report describes a bona fide security vulnerability resulting from a flaw in one of our products; when this happens, we develop a patch as quickly as possible to correct the error. (See "A Tour of the Microsoft Security Response Center"). In other cases, the reported problems simply result from a mistake someone made in using the product. But many fall in between. They discuss real security problems, but the problems don't result from product flaws. Over the years, we've developed a list of issues like these, that we call the 10 Immutable Laws of Security.

Quoted: If you’re an iPhone developer, then surely you’ve given out promo codes for your apps. Most developers usually just send out the promo codes… sometimes with instructions on how to redeem them… sometimes with no details at all. The latter can obviously be confusing to people who aren’t familiar with the process for redeeming them because it’s not completely obvious as to how to do it.

Quoted: It may be the world’s most popular sans, but Helvetica has many deficiencies – not least its lack of real italics

Resizable full-browser background image with jQuery (preserving aspect ratio)

It shouldn't be this hard!

(saving this because I know I'll want it someday)

Interesting blog post on using mechanical turk for brainstorming from the MIT AI Lab.

Quoted: This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in. I think this shows the power of print-on-demand in general, and MagCloud in particular, so I wanted to share my experience and show you how you can do it, too.