Stuff I Have Found Interesting Today

What's behind the Dow changes?

GM & Citigroup out and Cisco & Travelers in. That was quick!

Which refuge?

A decent discussion of the use of coercion ending with this quote "Which means that in addition to being the first refuge of the lazy, coercion is also a refuge of the ignorant."

Turn Your Project Into A Pirate Ship

Bizare title, but it hooked me with this quote "doesn't like running a business team...kind of smacks of corporate horribleness. You know, those awful, embarrassing team-building exercises that you read about in business books."

Laffer and the Portability of Knowledge

Interesting point that starts by explaining the Laffer curve then applies it to knowledge. Informational, short and pictures to boot!

Limited WIP Society

Not much there but a definition of What Is Kanban.

Breathe fire over HTTP in Ruby with Typhoeus

Any post referencing a obscure Greek god and parallel programming is a must read. Also worth mentioning is Ruby Fibers: 8 Useful Reads On Ruby’s New Concurrency Feature and Ruby-Toolbox.