Newmark's Door

Watch real-time charts of air traffic around some major airports. (Link via Boing Boing.)

Some people just really love their i-Pods.

They don't have it quite right, but it's an interesting list: "The Top 12 Hottest Female Guitarists Ever".

How 18 high-tech companies got their names.

Blog software comparison.

Update: Note Kevin Brancato's comment below that the comparison doesn't seem to take account of functions offered by add-on software. Movable Type in particular has a large, supportive user community.

Big film studios are rethinking those full-page, $100K ads in the newspapers. Maybe they'll drop a few more coins on blog advertising.

Buy now! I'm ready to deal.

43% of the articles in law reviews are never cited. 0.9% of the articles garner 96% of the cites. (Via Volokh.)

Spam + blogs = splogs, and they're mucking up the market, the bastards.

Daniel Gross advances a possible reason that I have not seen anywhere else for Google's secondary follow-on offering. (Thanks to KipEsquire for the correction.)

Noemie Emery precisely dissects "grief-centered politics": "We are suffering, so you owe it to us to give us what we ask for."