Trendrr, Scalr and Bork, Bork, Bork! [Best of April '08 #1]

Two Sweden-related posts in this week's roundup of interesting posts (April 1-6 2008):

• Trendrr Makes Data Mashups A Breeze – Josh Catone
  Trendrr, a potentially useful service for tracking and graphing data. Comes with an API.
  Tags: graphing
• Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort – Henry Work
  An open source initiative for managing Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.
  Tags: cloud computing, open source
• Google Gears, a Software Update for the Web – Ionut Alex Chitu
  An embedded Google TechTalk video about what's new with Google Gears - "An open-source mechanism for updating the Web." HTML 5 and Gears have a lot in common.
  Tags: Google Gears
• Europe-Focused Blog Search Engine Twingly Goes Into Private Beta – Michael Arrington
  A Sweden-based blog search engine.
  Tags: blog search
• How to Disagree – Paul Graham
  A disagreement hierarchy in 7 levels: DH0. Name-calling DH1. Ad Hominem DH2. Responding to Tone DH3. Contradiction DH4. Counterargument DH5. Refutation DH6. Refuting the Central Point
  Tags: blogging
• Not Your Ordinary Google Interface – Ionut Alex Chitu
  The Google interface in unusual languages, including "Bork, bork, bork!", the language of my favourite Muppet Show character: The Swedish Chef.
  Tags: humor