Four Days on Rails.
Four Days on Rails is a 40 page introduction to useful Rails techniques and where to go on the web for more information.
Rails
is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for
beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the
format of a reference manual. What's missing is a roadmap (railmap?)
pointing [...]

Useit.Com: Ten Best Intranets of 2005.
Selecting the ten best intranets gets harder every year because the
number of great designs keeps increasing. While tough on the judges,
this is good news: it shows that the intranet usability movement is
winning. [Tomalak's Realm]

Protect your site from Google's new toolbar [updated].
To the delight of gadget freaks and the consternation of some
designers, Google's new Autolink feature sticks links on your site that
you didn't put there. You can't fight City Hall, but if it freaks you
out to have anyone (even nice Google) sticking links on your site, you
can turn them [...]

Jef Raskin. Jef Raskin, the man who started and inspired the Macintosh revolution, passed away peacefully on Saturday. [MacInTouch]

On Social Security: Fun With Numbers. The Social Security debate rages on. Clearly, changes are necessary, but which ones? [The Motley Fool]

As Logan grows, a race to train screeners begins.
CHELSEA — Logan International Airport opens a rebuilt Terminal A in
two weeks, offering millions of passengers a glittering gateway to the
world from the former home of Eastern Airlines. It will also create
fresh personnel demands on the Transportation Security Administration,
which is losing about 25 percent of its employees [...]

Cahier: The Honda Accord of Moleskines.
Nice middle ground between the high-end Classic and the modestly-priced
Volant. I like that you can doodle on the cardboard cover. [43 Folders]

Microsoft to disable product activation over Net.
Customers who find themselves reinstalling Windows XP should be ready
for a headache: Microsoft will no longer support activating the product
over the Internet.
Intended to curtail the stealing and selling of certificates of
authenticity, the new security measure will start at the end of this
month. At first, it will be limited to [...]

E-meetings Becoming More Mainstream.
This week's issue of ComputerWorld has
an excellent feature story on how e-meeting systems have evolved to
save companies time and money by reducing travel expenses. One of the
companies featured in the story is Groove customer Steelcase Inc., the
global office furniture company.
Florent Burion, international
CRM team leader at Steelcase, says that the Groove meeting [...]

Adaptive Path: Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications.
Jesse James Garrett. Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of
a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been
calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML,
and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web. [Tomalak's Realm]