Interesting – I’m reading Charlie Stross’s awesome novel “Accellerando”. It’s a great read – fast paced, full of amazing ideas and new technology. It is so full of ideas that there is a whole wiki article emerging about it as a study guide. And, even cooler, Charlie saves us a trip to the library by providing the book for free as a download on it’s website. Yup, you can buy it or you can get it for free.

So anyway, I’m reading away when this line jumps out at me:

Rome is hotter than downtown Columbia, South Carolina, over Thanksgiving weekend

– that means Rome is very hot. In the summer, there is nothing between Columbia and hell but a screen door.

I’m mad for del.icio.us – I keep all of my bookmarks there and use it to discover new cool stuff all the time. It’s how I discovered that little bitty browser in the post below.

Browsing the new blog for the site, I discovered two cool new features.
First, you can now bookmark sites and add a tag for:username. That user will see links for them in their “for” section. This is a great cool way to bookmark stuff for yourself and then make sure that pals get a chance to see it as well. Feel free to bookmark any good stuff for me with the tag “for:snarkhunt” It does raise the issue of spam, as now a spammer could simply script up something that spiders through the site, grabs usernames, then spams with for: tags. Presumably, their could be some sort of whuffie based response. Personally, I like using delicious as a pull based discovery device. I subscribe to where I find the good stuff I like.

The other feature I just noticed is the new posting scheme. This makes it easy for blogs and the like to make it easier for you to bookmark. I just changed my blogger template to put a little post to delicious link on every post in the footer. If you’ve got a delicious account, you should give it a click.

If you don’t have a delicious account you should probably look into it. Delicious is wonderfully useful without an account, but even more useful when you are using it instead of just searching it.

For example, here’s my inbox of links:

Anything tagged with any of those tags on the right that I am interested in shows up right there for me.
Think what subjects you’d be interested in seeing links for…

I’m playing around with this bitty browser thing.

Will this thing work? It should be a browse of my delicious links.