Poor Stallman. He's just clueless about the real world.

Quoted: The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.

Quoted: Cookie cutter go-to-market strategies
I run into a lot of startups that have identical strategies for getting to market. When you talk to them, a lot of them will talk about the same questions:

1. When are you launching?
2. What do you do to get on Techcrunch/Venturebeat/DEMO/etc.?
3. How do you think Twitter/Friendfeed/etc got their successful launches?

Quoted: The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

Refaving from Mike and Zach. Very nice!

Quoted: Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg, but SitePoint's anecdote demonstrates that sometimes the wisdom of crowds approach is, well, kind of dumb.

"So anyone else in the digg community who might be interested in a full, print-quality Photoshop book -- sorry, you miss out," wrote Tilley. "All because some goose decided to throw around some unsubstantiated claim about the legitimacy of our giveaway. What's worse is that everyone believed him!"

MakeCert documentation from Microsoft

To make an https cert for localhost, use:

makecert -sr LocalMachine -ss My -n CN=localhost -sky exchange -sk localhost

Very fast whois function.

Quoted: Although it is not yet widely visible to the outside world, some people inside Microsoft are beginning to break that mold.

The Popfly programmers, however, have gone a step further in an effort to design a tool that is intended for a generation of Web users who are familiar with the Internet but are not skilled programmers.

A user might take Popfly and mash up his list of Amazon book recommendations with the Seattle Library book catalog on the Web, he said, and receive a notification when the waiting list for a particular book was down to zero. , soci

How to make transparent PNGs work in earlier versions of IE, using a filter.

Quoted: This site is all about a JavaScript-based PNG fix for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 on Windows. The fix allows IE to properly render PNG alpha transparency. If you want to get straight to the script, go to the how-to page and follow the instructions there. If you have the time for a description and demo of the problem, then read on...