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Infographic: Food spending in the biggest U.S. cities
http://money.bundle.com/article/food-spending-in-the-biggest-US-cities-11040
Austin on top for some reason, both groceries and eating out
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Flippin Retire
http://flippinretire.com/home.html
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Wunderlist
http://www.wunderlist.com/
cloud-based to-do list with client apps for multiple platforms
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UnityRemote iPod Remote Control
http://us.gear4.com/product/_/93/unityremote/?cid=31
Bluetooth-to-IR tabletop gateway allows use of iPhone as remote control.
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PHP Code Snippets
http://phpsnips.com/
Perfect for someone like me who can only kinda-sorta write code.
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Cyclewallah
http://cyclewallah.com/
Not sure if the world needs a social network for hipster cyclists, but here it is.
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Why Buy When You Can Borrow? | Share Some Sugar
http://www.sharesomesugar.com/
I had an idea for something like this, but lacked the chops to make it happen. Glad to see someone else ran with it.
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Austin Art Yards
http://www.austinartyards.com/index.htm
Flash implementation of a great old-school arcade game
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Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny - Photo | Japanator.com: anime news, original features, and weird stories from Japan, updated daily!
http://www.japanator.com/elephant/photo.phtml?post_key=8421&photo_key=4679#prevnext
Moo means moo
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Shorter Joe Stack
http://rimbosity.com/writings/joe-stack-translated.html
Much scholarship and weirdness
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Soma Ta-Bo Saddle
http://store.somafab.com/somatabosaddle.html
Overpriced knockoff of my favorite old saddle, the Selle Italia Turbo.
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Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail
http://code.dunae.ca/premailer.web/
inspects and fixes html for email
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Tweetsuite
http://danzarrella.com/beyond-tweetbacks-introducing-tweetsuite.html
Puts tweets about a blog post into the blog post, other twitter-related toys for blogs
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Sideswipe Kitchenaid paddle
http://www.frutproductsstore.com/default.asp
has silicone blades that wipe down bowl edge. Need to get one of these when they come out with the right size.
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National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/BushNightmare.htm
A link-annotated version of the classic, prescient Onion article
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GovTwit Directory
http://newthinking.bearingpoint.com/2008/11/20/govtwit-directory/
list of government agencies on twitter
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Austin Computer Museum
http://www.austincomputerworks.org/museum/
Run by Goodwill. Want to visit someday.
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Requirements of Japanese Text Layout
http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/
An extensive overview of Japanese page layout. A few goofs, but useful.
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Prelinger Library
http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html
Harper's ran an article on the Prelinger Library about a year ago, which I just read. I'd heard of the Prelinger Archive before, but never imagined it was the work of a couple of countercultural autodidacts. Fascinating
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typd.in - a web-based input method editor
http://beta.typd.in/index.html
Lets you type in Japanese on a computer with no IME installed (but you do need Japanese fonts). Pretty freaking amazing.
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ToAnswer » Get your questions answered in 140 characters or less
http://toanswer.net/
It's like someone got Ask Metafilter in my Twitter