This past week, I was asked to work (together with the other developers) on a standards document for application development. This is the second time, in three organizations, where I was asked to work on such a thing. Organizational application development standards are a hard thing to nail down. In order to develop such a thing, you really need the buy-in of everybody. I really think this is something that could take time.
Useful and/or interesting stuff I found this week:
ChrUbuntu [An alternative to Crouton?]
cfPayment [Interact with multiple payment gateways]
My NSA Records [Submit a FOIA request for your NSA records]
Shirts.io [An API for printing and shipping t-shirts]
Google Loon [A google project to distribute the internet via low-orbit balloons]