MySQL Sharding for 5 billion page views per month.
Brilliant must-read article on DB sharding with MySQL at popular social network Netlog.
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Posterous launches Facebook Connect for login/signup and blog comments
You can now login to your Posterous using Facebook account, so it's easier than ever to get started or get rolling. If you haven't linked your Facebook to your Posterous account yet, you can do so by clicking Autopost to Everywhere and clicking Add a Service, and then "Enable autopost".
Anyone can now comment on any Posterous blog using Facebook too. We also make it super easy to post blog comments back to your Facebook wall -- just click "Post comment to Facebook" at the bottom of the comment form. (Custom domains don't work yet, but we've got requests out to Facebook to figure out how to support it.) Posterous and Facebook, better together. Thanks for using posterous, and contact us at help@posterous.com anytime if you have suggestions, problems or ideas.
What happens if you ring a bicycle bell on the sidewalks in Japan with no actual bicycle?
Japanese sidewalks are very crowded, yet bicycles share the sidewalks with people (not the streets with cars), so people are used to moving out of the way when hearing someone ring their bicycle bell. As you'll see, it does not work only on the sidewalks. Helps if you understand Japanese, but not required -- you'll get it.
Fantastic Contraption - prepare to waste several hours of your life playing a flash game.
You know how when you were a kid, you could play with legos and imagine them to do all sorts of things? You ever play Lemmings -- you know, that old school puzzle computer game where you had to build little things so the lemmings would reach their goal instead of dying horrible deaths? Fantastic Contraption is kind of a mix of legos and lemmings, with a bunch of cool physics modeling in there as well.
Basic idea is to get some blocks into the goal, and to build any sort of machine using rolling balls and sticks. http://fantasticcontraption.com (do not click unless you're willing to lose a few hours of your life immediately) Hat tip to Adam R
