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Lots of good suggestions here. I'll just add a quick one - Ubuntu doesn't enable subpixel smoothing on fonts automatically, and if you're using LCD displays it's a nice thing to have.

You can find this option in System->Preferences->Appearance, Fonts tab.

Maybe someone should create a Hacker News (or hacking music) group on last.fm?

My hacking music preferences:

http://www.last.fm/user/zenlinux/

For a website only, that's not a big deal. However if you also have email for that domain, mail will immediately start bouncing when DNS goes down.

I've been using DNS Made Easy for a while. I find the prices are very good if you have a bunch of domains to host. I'm using five nameservers for each domain and that seems like plenty of redundancy.

Aren't there idea repositories out on the web that are publicly accessible? Something along the lines of huge brainstorming sessions done by people who don't have the time or inclination to implement the ideas?

Here's the closest thing I'm aware of - the Global Ideas Bank: http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/

Anyone know of anything else along this line?

Really? A post-mortem report about that app would be very interesting.

It seems to me that the hardest part about this kind of business is modifying people's behavior. Removing barriers to leaving a tip is one important aspect of that, but the second is the cultural attitudes of when and how much to tip.

I'd like to see this kind of model succeed, but how can you transition from the concept most of us have of the web as "free beer" to something one has an obligation to tip?

I live in southeast New Hampshire, about an hour and a half drive from Boston. I'm interested in meeting people who are involved with the intersection of political activism and technology. I'm working on a web application to help grassroots groups run letter writing campaigns and various other activities. I enjoy working with Ruby and Rails and also run the NHRuby.org user group. Drop me a line at sgarman at zenlinux dot com.