Spock launched today. It’s a search engine for people. Seems promising (though it generates duplicate results), but somehow it can’t find me yet.

Amazon launches a payment system for web sites that promises to become a PayPal competitor. Google’s Checkout, a similar system, has also been around for a few months.

Typolight is a new CMS with some promising features (live updates, Ajax integration, full templating). Worth a serious look.

Here’s a tip for print stylesheets: Hide everything but the content, and group the hidden items together.

Friday fun: Elton John says “it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole Internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.” In other news, EJ’s last album was sold in the last century.

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