Simon Willison’s Weblog

Kellogg’s™ Lego® Fruit Flavored Snacks (via) On the one hand, from a child safety point of view this is clearly one of most stupid product ideas in recent history. On the other hand, I really, really want some.

# 8:38 am / kelloggs, lego, pennyarcade, safety

PortingDjangoTo3k. Martin von Loewis has started assembling a patch. His write-up illustrates some key differences between Python 2.X and Python 3—it looks like Django’s unicode handling is going to require the most work.

# 5:53 pm / django, martinvonloewis, python, python3k, unicode

When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2. Handy tips from Drew on fixing the glitchy text rendering in Firefox 2 when you animate opacity without breaking alpha-transparent PNGs in IE6.

# 6:09 pm / javascript, jquery, firefox2, ie6, drew-mclellan, css, bugs, browsers, opacity, pngs