F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11: Great piece on a bit of 9/11 history that we haven't had insight into before.

SF Rent vs. the Rest of the U.S. Told with Food: Pretty cool visualization. (via Coleen Baik on Twitter)

Markdown Follow-Up: A decent rundown of the recent Markdown / Jeff Atwood controversy.

Phone Sizes: Smart stuff from Lukas Mathias on phone screen sizes. I think that Apple has been pretty slow to offer the iPhone in multiple sizes, and it's not clear that they're taking all of their users (and use cases) into account. (via Michael Tsai)

Dell’s 27-inch 5120x2880 monitor: \$2500, this winter: I'm with Marco -- this display is exciting. The idea of a Retina iMac at under \$3,000 though... I'm not as sure about that one.