Pizza and the Empirical Method

This is a fun article that started as an argument about the best Chicago-style pizza. This led to a full on taste-off and careful scientific scrutiny of the results.

• Finding the Best Chicago Pizza in San Francisco

Behind the Scenes: What it Takes to Redesign a 12 Million User Website

Mashable takes a look at the re-design process behind Thrillist.com.

• Behind the Scenes: What it Takes to Redesign a 12 Million User Website

Visualizing Friendships Using Facebook's Social Graph

Paul Butler, a Facebook developer looks at a data visualization exploring the locality of friends.

"When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them."

Read more and find a high res image here:

• Visualizing Friendship

24 ways: An Introduction to CSS 3-D Transforms

Check out some intriguing 3-D transforms that are possible with CSS; unfortunately, browser support is mostly limited to Safari but fascinating what's possible.

Read more:

• 24 ways: An Introduction to CSS 3-D Transforms

Fun with Birthdays at AddThis

Today is our CTO's birthday, and the team had some fun decorating his cube. Here's a time lapse of the process:



And the final result:

Web 2.0 Summit 2010: "Point of Control: Location Based Services"

Panel discussion of location based services, from the Web 2.0 Summit 2010. Hat tip, Joel.