Scour the Web

Thanks to Mashable, I found out about the up and coming search engine Scour.

Scour actually forwards your criteria to the giants you already know (Google, Yahoo, and MSN). What you get is a combination of those results with some additional information and power.

Most importantly, the results are interactive. You can vote and comment on each one. Users' feedback provides Scour with an additional metric on each result in addition to the page rank it has with the 3 giants.

More over, as you participate, you earn points. And yep, you guessed it, you can redeem your points once you've earned enough. Right now, you'll be rewarded with Visa Gift Cards in values of $25, $50, or $100.

Feel free to sign up and give it a try.

DZone Refcardz

I haven't been spending as much time on DZone as I used to (or want to), so I just read about this. It's not breaking news, but I thought it was something worth sharing in case you haven't heard of these yet either.

DZone has begun publishing Refcardz. These are cheat sheets for developers and other technical professionals on various technologies. Refcardz cover things like IDEs or even patterns from the GoF book. It appears they're being released at a rate of once a week, so I'm sure if there isn't one you're interested in yet, it won't be too long. Just subscribe to the feed and keep an eye out.