To make a long story short, Snow Leopard ships with key forwarding disabled by default and you will have to modify the file /etc/ssh_config to get it working.

Just change the lines

# Host *
# ForwardAgent no

into

Host *
ForwardAgent yes

and you are good.

Google’s Font Directory and API for web fonts could have a transformative effect on how we read the web. The only problem is, Google has made it very difficult to download all of the actual font files.

Web designers must be free to experiment with these new fonts, to sketch, comp and get to know these typefaces in browser and non-browser applications. This is why I’m providing this archive. 

Download Google’s Web Fonts
38.9 MB on disk (38,869,231 bytes)*
Updated 2011-03-15

You can use it in web pages, but until I found this, I couldn't design with it. Now I can. EPIC WIN.

I found the packaging still vaguely annoying since each ttf file was in a separate directory, so I ran this on the command line (cd to the untarballed directory first):

mkdir all; find . -iname '*.ttf' -exec cp \{\} ./all \;

Then I had all the ttf files in one directory at the root (./all) and I could drag and drop that into OS X fontbook.

One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage.

On the face of it, it seems insane. Why would you intentionally kill parts of your site? Yet in practice, being able to handle failure consistently means you are never ever surprised.

Edit: My friend Vinny Magno writes:

Automobile assembly lines started doing the same thing (I think Ford was the first, though I might be wrong).

A single line can produce multiple models back to back. So for example, a Focus may be followed by an Explorer and then an Escape. At one point, the chassis and body are aligned and welded together. Obviously welding a Focus body to an Explorer chassis would be a problem, but the automation is so good that the defect rate was incredibly low. Since such a defect happened so infrequently, operators became complacent and failed to catch it the times that it did occur. To solve the problem, Ford purposefully upped the error rate to keep the operators sharp.

Turns out there's precedence!

I implemented my new scheme and running time went from 9 minutes to 24 SECONDS. I liked this approach so much I decided to generalize it as ActiveRecord::Base.transform. Sample usage:

# if users don't have names, give them a random one
NAMES = ['Adam', 'Ethan', 'Patrick']
User.transform(:name, :conditions => 'name is null').each do |i|
  i.name = NAMES[rand * NAMES.length]
end

Really interesting use of temp tables here.

Clickable links, should work in all browsers.	For pasting or typing, requires full IDN support.	Script	Language
http://مثال.إختبار	http://مثال.إختبار	Arabic	Arabic
http://例子.测试	http://例子.测试	Simplified Chinese	Chinese
http://例子.測試	http://例子.測試	Traditional Chinese	Chinese
http://παράδειγμα.δοκιμή	http://παράδειγμα.δοκιμή	Greek	Greek
http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा	http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा	Devanagari	Hindi
http://例え.テスト	http://例え.テスト	Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana	Japanese
http://실례.테스트	http://실례.테스트	Hangul	Korean
http://مثال.آزمایشی	http://مثال.آزمایشی	Perso-Arabic	Persian
http://пример.испытание	http://пример.испытание	Cyrillic	Russian
http://உதாரணம்.பரிட்சை	http://உதாரணம்.பரிட்சை	Tamil	Tamil
http://בײַשפּיל.טעסט	http://בײַשפּיל.טעסט	Hebrew	Yiddish

I had no idea. Posterous support for these bad boys coming soon.

While America threw on its eating pants and combed the Thursday circulars for deals, John Gruber spent Thanksgiving preparing to unveil his regular expression for finding URLs in arbitrary text.

\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))

Pretty dense. Let’s be that guy and break it out, /x style (ignoring white space, with comments)

\b                          #start with a word boundary
(                           #
    (                           #
        [\w-]+://?                  #protocol://, second slash optional
        |                           #OR
        www[.]                      #a literal www. 
    )                           #
    [^\s()]+                  #non-whitespace, parens or angle brackets
                                #repeated any number of times
    (?:                         # (end game)
        \([\w\d]+\)                 #handles weird parenthesis in URLs (http://example.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia))
                                    #won't handle this twice foo_(bar)_(and)_again
        |                           #OR
        (                           #
            [^[:punct:]\s]              #NOT a single punctuation or white space
            |                           #OR
            /                           #trailing slash
        )                           #
    )                           #
)                           #

Amazing writeup by Alan Storm on Gruber's autolinking regex.

Update: Gruber updated this with an even more awesome regex, with breakout explanation. 

If you're a Twitter user, logged-in, and have Javascript, you'll be able to see my profile here:

• http://twitter.com/#!/RobOusbey

However, Googlebot will recognize that as a URL in the new format, and will instead request this URL:

• http://twitter.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/RobOusbey

Sensibly, Twitter want to maintain backward compatibility (and not have their indexed URLs look like junk) so they 301 redirect that URL to:

• http://twitter.com/RobOusbey

(And if you're a logged-in Twitter user, that last URL will actually redirect you back to the first one.)

seomoz.org, dependable as usual.