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Monday, 26th May 2008

Craigslist is fighting back. Its latest gimmick is phone verification. Posting in some categories now requires a callback phone call, with a password sent to the user either by voice or as an SMS message. [...] Spammers tried using their own free ringtone sites to get many users to accept the Craigslist verification call, then type in the password from the voice message. Craigslist hasn't countered that trick yet.

John Nagle

# 8:40 am / spam, phonecall, sms, callback, craigslist

QUnit. The jQuery unit testing framework is now documented and supported as a separate project.

# 5:31 pm / qunit, jquery, javascript, testing, unittests

Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts. Brian Suda’s Google Charts tutorial on 24 ways has proved invaluable for figuring out how to handle grid lines and axis labels, both of which are pretty unintuitive (and not hugely helped by the official documentation).

# 9:43 pm / google-charts, brian-suda, 24-ways, graphs, google

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