I want to keep track of some U/I design blogs that I�ve been hunting down on the internets, so here�s a list:

• Yahooâ��s UI blog â�� all about the design capabilities and use of the Yahoo YUI suite of JavaScript tools
• Seth Godinâ��s blog â�� not really about U/I per se, but talks a lot about it in the guise of marketing strategy
• Jesse James Garretâ��s list of resources â�� not a blog so much as a list of cool stuff heâ��s made for free distribution
• Scrubbles.net â�� Matt Hinrichâ��s blog of random cultural mishmash
• Anil Dash â�� Thoughts on tech from a pretty decent purveyor of same
• A List Apart â�� the granddaddy of awesome web design sites has (predictably) a great section on U/I
• Sitepoint.com â�� Best all-around â��how do Iâ�¦?â�� blog for web stuff. The CSS forums are especially invaluable

This code is boo-boo, cousin:

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Seems like more and more blogging tools are offering some manner of code syntax highlighting. At least for me, this was a major reason to locate this blog on Mephisto instead of WordPress. Might be a feature only nerds care about, but it�s implemented with a pretty nice filter architecture that can actually do a lot more than show copyable code examples to geeks surfing on your site.

When you wake up to read that Facebook has been valued at $15 billion, this coming by extrapolating the 1.6% stake that Microsoft bought last week for $240 million, you have to ask yourself what everyone else is: is the next bubble upon us?

If this is the only indication, I think the answer is yes. And I get that from one pesky statistic, the one that haunted web companies in the late 1990s: the price to earnings ratio. A p-to-e ratio tells what the market is valuing your stock at in relation to how much you’re earning. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal has to say on that front. Basically, they’re skeptical—even with the oh-so-sexy factor of actual profits emanating from FB:

That’s right, unlike past meteoric technology risers, the three-year-old company is actually profitable. Facebook’s valuation also equates to 100 times its $150 million of annual revenue. To put a valuation like that into perspective, if you slapped it on General Electric, the industrial conglomerate would have a market cap of $11 trillion, just $1 trillion short of the total U.S. GDP. Even America Online, the poster child for the late-1990s Internet excess, only sported a price-to-earnings multiple at its height of 232 times.

So we’re doing with Facebook 2x the p-to-e craziness we were doing with AOL in the late nineties? We have indeed learned nothing.