Sometime between February 24th and March 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!

• The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds: "The FCC is asking the nation's broadband and smartphone users to use their broadband testing tools to help the feds and consumers know what speeds are actually available, not just promised by the nations' telecoms."
• Zip Code Boundary Map: Useful Google Maps mashup with zip code boundaries for the entire U.S.
• Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X: "I discovered that anyone can create their own Quartz filters, which was the key I needed. Thus armed with knowledge, I set about creating a filter that struck, in my estimation, a reasonable balance between image quality and file size reduction. And I think I've found it. That 175MB PDF gets taken down to 34MB with what I created. If you'd like to experience this size reduction for yourself (and how's that for an inversion of common spam tropes?) it's pretty simple."
• Hummer Brand to Be Wound Down After Sale Fails: Awesome. "It has achieved notoriety as the mother of all petrol-guzzlers, first developed for the US military, then taken up by celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger before he renounced it on environmental grounds. But the Hummer has run out of road. General Motors, the struggling car company, announced that it will wind down production of its Hummer SUV line after a deal to sell the brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through."
• Stryde Hax: The Spy at Harriton High: "This investigation into the remote spying allegedly being conducted against students at Lower Merion represents an attempt to find proof of spying and a look into the toolchain used to accomplish spying."

Sometime between February 16th and February 22nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!

• Tommy Westphall’s Mind: A Multiverse Explored: "'Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show.' According to These Guys, many of the shows we love only exist in Tommy's mind. They have compiled a list of the intertwining series, but the resulting excel spreadsheet just didn't do it justice, so I designed a brain map to illustrate the theory."
• Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History: "The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed."
• Typography for Lawyers: Don't let the "for lawyers" title fool you — though originally written for the legal profession, this is an excellent collection of typography tips, hints, and guidelines that every professional (and anyone who wants to create a well-presented printed document) would do well to read and keep handy. Much of this I knew and already used regularly (especially the 'single-space between sentences' rule), but there were some good new bits as well.
• 500 Internal Server Error: 500 Internal Server Error
• PeteSearch: How to Split Up the US by Facebook Interactions: "Pacifica: The most boring of the clusters, the area around Seattle is disappointingly average. Tightly connected to each other, it doesn't look like Washingtonians are big travelers compared to the rest of the West, even though a lot of them claim to need a vacation!"