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Thursday, 20th September 2007

Flickr: [what was with the pirates?] Garrrrhhhh! (via) It’s fascinating reading all the complaints on this thread—partly due to different international senses of humour, and partly just because as Flickr became more mainstream it attracted users who never picked up the sense of fun at the center of the Flickr brand.

# 9:35 am / community, culturaldifferences, flickr, jokes, talklikeapirateday

Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won't delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed.

Jon Sykes

# 1:04 pm / ie6, javascript, memoryleaks, jon-sykes

Want To Learn Web Programming? Write A Blog Engine. I couldn’t agree more. Weblogs are an ideal starter project—simple enough to get your head around, complex enough to teach you a bunch of important lessons, ideally suited for eating your own dog food.

# 1:17 pm / dogfood, programming, weblogs

LOLTHULHU (via) Outstanding.

# 8:42 pm / cthulhu, funny, lolthulhu

Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph. Six Apart put their cards on the table with respect to the social graph problem—focusing on OpenID, XFN and FOAF as enabling technologies. Be sure to watch the screencast demo of their new social graph visualisation tool.

# 9:19 pm / david-recordon, foaf, openid, sixapart, socialgraph, xfn