Jeffrey Zeldman had a thing or two to say about selling your company or product to corporate ownership.

Though bits are forever, our medium is mortal, as all but the most naive among us know. And we accept that some of what we hold digitally dear will perish before our eyes. But it irks most especially when people or companies with more money than judgement purchase a thriving online community only to trash it when they can’t figure out how to squeeze a buck out of it.

And with the possible exception of Flickr (better now than the day Yahoo bought it), I can’t think of any online community or publication that has improved as a result of being purchased. Whereas we can all instantly call to mind dozens of wonderful web properties that died or crawled up their own asses as a direct result of new corporate ownership.

And finally, a bit of advice.

Stop selling your stuff to corporate jerks. It never works. They always wreck what you’ve spent years making.

The whole thing is worth reading.

Mike Davies on hashbangs.

What’s the problem?

The main problem is that LifeHacker URLs now don’t map to actual content. Well, every URL references the LifeHacker homepage. If you are lucky enough to have the JavaScript running successfully, the homepage then triggers off several Ajax requests to render the page, hopefully with the desired content showing up at some point.

Far more complicated than a simple URL, far more error prone, and far brittler.

Ben Ward pulls no punches about the “#!”.

Let’s get something very clear: Hash-bang URLs are shit. They’re ugly, brittle and a furious hack in the absence of anything else.

Tim Bray (who you might remember as one of the inventors of XML and Atom) doesn’t like the proliferation of hashbangs (#!), either.

There is no piece of dynamic AJAXy magic that requires beating the Web to a bloody pulp with a sharp-edged hashbang. Please stop doing it.

Ben Ward put it succinctly.

The truth is that if site content doesn’t load through curl it’s broken.

Please use real URLs. That hashbang nonsense is not good for any of us.

Jon Udell of The Elmcity Calendar Curation Project on how to think like the web.

1. Be the authoritative source for your own data
2. Pass by reference not by value
3. Know the difference between structured and unstructured data
4. Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions
5. Push your data to the widest appropriate scope
6. Participate in pub/sub networks as both a publisher and a subscriber
7. Reuse components and services

Jeremie Miller writes about The Locker Project’s Core Values.

• I own my personal data
• I want my data to be useful to me
• I make the decisions to protect or share my data

Recently after a trip to The Hollywood Farmers’ Market with K, we hopped over to Flore Vegan to meet Jessica and Robin for brunch. We were too late, so it turned into lunch. No chicken and waffles for us this time. I had a avocado based sandwich and smoothie. Afterward at The Farmhouse, Jessica and Robin would get their paws on a couple avocados too.

On to the pictures.

To begin with, the cashew cheese and bread plate.

Then avocado and citrus smoothie.

And finally, avocado and cheese sandwich. My favorite thing at Flore, second only to the chicken and waffles.