I've got a bunch of tech sites and features to talk about that range from the trivial to the not so trivial. Since they're either minor or linked to others in some way, I thought I'd lay them all out briefly here in one post. So you know what's coming, here's a kind of table of contents:

<a href="#tinypaste">TinyPaste</a> | <a href="sqworl">Sqworl</a> | <a href="laconica">Laconica</a> | <a href="twobits">Two Bits</a> | <a href="sisu">SiSU</a> | <a href="lexmercatoria">Lex Mercatoria</a>

<a name="tinypaste"></a>1. TinyPaste is the simplest of sites and web apps: It offers you a text entry box where you can paste your text (natch) and a "submit" button. What you get in return is a short URL that will lead a user to the text you entered.