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Prime numbers applied to repeating background images for amazing results.

Provoke emotional reactions instead of informing. Take with a grain of salt, but remember that traffic means ads, ads mean money, and money is like life-giving blood to any business.

It takes balls to abandon features — grow some.

The Post on its move to a new web-based CMS, Methode. Apparently cost them $7 million, but at least it's used by a bunch other big-name papers such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the Boston Globe.

Those of us looking to produce high quality content for the web should consider the possibility that our first problem is that we’re calling it content. This commoditizes it and sends the message that quality doesn't matter.

A prediction piece, but one with a couple of timeless and noteworthy gems. When journalists are called on to redirect the corporate culture of an organization, sometimes it works in a small way, but usually it doesn't; and almost never on a vast scale.

We programmers need all the help we can get, and we should never assume otherwise. Joshua Bloch of Google walks through a binary search implementation to discuss a bug that went undetected for years.

Not paying is always simple.

Masterminds are capable but not eager leaders, stepping forward only when it becomes obvious to them that they are the best for the job. Strong-willed and very self-assured, they may make this decision quickly, as they tend to make all decisions.

Former design director of the NY Times says it's still too early to tell whether the new paywall will work, but also says that The Times spent too much time and effort on it that could have gone to other innovation.