A long Cult of Mac interview with former Apple CEO John Sculley about his time there, and particularly about what makes Jobs and – by extension – Apple the way they are.

Mike Monteiro on time management, and how unless your job is to attend meetings, most calendars aren’t made for you.

All great things can be used for stupid purposes.

Amazing timeline from I love Typography of the history of the (Latin) alphabet. Interesting to people interested in both typography, linguistics, and history. (Three for three in my case.)

Kind of old by now, but useful nonetheless. Quick summary: Everything you believe about names is wrong.

Backblaze is a backup service I’ve been using since the start of 2009, and I’ve been very pleased with them, although, thankfully, I haven’t had to make great use of their restoration.

In June they’re having Backup Awareness Month. If you follow the link I’ve supplied here, you will be eligible for winning an iPad, and if you tell that I sent you, so will I.

Backup is important, because hard-drives fail. That’s a fact of life, and using an offsite backup service like Backblaze means that even if something awful were to happen to the place you live, at least your data will be safe.

Laura Franz has started a project to make great web font pairings.

Google’s offering of embedding open source fonts, without hosting them yourself.

Never Mrgan of Panic fame is tracking exciting HTML5 creations.

Mark Pilgrim‘s comprehensive list of JavaScript methods of detecting which HTML5 features browsers support.