There’s been a new crop of search engines coming up lately, including Powerset, an engine which emphasizes natural-language queries, and Cuil (pronounced “cool”—don’t ask me why), a new search engine launched today that was created by a couple of Google alums. Check ‘em out.

Check it, yo: an iPhone app containing cocktail recipes. I am not kidding. I have no words for this awesomeness. (Via DF)

Part of my consulting assignment was teaching a mini-course on writing good markup. I gave it today, to pretty good success, I think. For your edification, here are the slides, notes, and agenda/examples.

consulting engagement clear across the country, meaning that I’m flying there and back every week. It’s the reason I didn’t blog at all last week, and if last week is anything to go by, I probably won’t blog too much in the coming weeks, either. It’s not that I don’t have time in the evenings, but that I apparently prefer to come back to the hotel and aggressively veg out. So long story short, maybe you’ll see me this month, maybe you won’t.

Also, the Language Nazi says: Don’t ever use the word “blog” to refer to a blog post (e.g. “I was reading that blog you wrote yesterday, and I totally disagreed with you, man.”). It’s wrong, and annoys the hell out of me.

A Palm software developer^† takes a crack at writing an iPhone app. I don’t even know where to begin. (via Gruber)

^† When it comes to web technology, these guys pretty clearly think it’s 1998, not 2008. Look at their source! It’s enough to bring a grown woman to tears.

Check out the timeline of its evolution (hat tip). The new logo looks softer and more approachable, but I have to agree with this guy that the icon says “tech start-up” more than it says “discount retailer” (via).

Adobe has just released information to Google and Yahoo! to enable them to index Flash files. Now all we need is to be able to copy text from a Flash file (fricking restaurant websites!) and we’ll be golden.