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Samy, Their Hero (via) An interview with the author of the MySpace worm

# 14th October 2005, 12:13 pm

Flash for client-side vector graphics! This is a holy-crap moment. You could emulate the canvas tag API for IE with this.

# 13th October 2005, 8:45 am

Is ESPN returning to the nest? Back to layout tables from CSS. Anyone know why?

# 13th October 2005, 8:38 am

Heatmapping Google Earth. Coolest use of Django to date.

# 11th October 2005, 9:07 pm

Core Data as a Cheap Database. Build a database GUI application with virtually no code.

# 11th October 2005, 12:41 pm

Internet Explorer’s Mark of the Web. Anyone else reminded of the Mark of the Beast?

# 9th October 2005, 1:24 pm

Django gods—Uncyclopedia. Utterly bizzare. I do like squirrels though.

# 7th October 2005, 3:45 pm / django

On RSS and the coming wave of content theft. A reason to avoid commercial-use-allowed Creative Commons licenses.

# 5th October 2005, 11:25 am / creative-commons

Ning. A social software app for building social software apps. That’s so meta.

# 4th October 2005, 12:05 pm

Announcing the Open Content Alliance. Yahoo! are teaming up with the Internet Archive and others.

# 3rd October 2005, 11:45 am

Curing Float Drops and Wraps. Invaluable guide to debugging CSS floats.

# 30th September 2005, 10 am

Nate Koechley: Yahoo! My Web improves Search. Be sure to click through to the annotated screenshots.

# 28th September 2005, 2:40 pm

Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused. A survey of taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers.

# 28th September 2005, 2:11 pm / blogging

Slashdot’s gone CSS. They’ve been talking about it for a while—looks like they threw the switch.

# 22nd September 2005, 5:55 am / slashdot

RailsFS After a Couple Minutes of Tooling With Fuse, Whoa. Mount your active record models as a file system under Linux.

# 21st September 2005, 10:57 pm

Opera is now Free. I wonder how this will affect their market share.

# 20th September 2005, 3:25 pm

Hacking the BT Voyager 205 broadband modem/router (via) It’s a surprisingly versatile little box.

# 17th September 2005, 1:30 pm

Abe’s Twisted book it out soon. And it has the best O’Reilly cover ever.

# 15th September 2005, 3:33 pm

Katrina: The Gathering (via) Extremely well done collectible card game parody.

# 15th September 2005, 1:05 pm

Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades (via) “Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too.”

# 14th September 2005, 11:21 pm

Email Injection—SecurePHP. Here’s a PHP hole I hadn’t heard about.

# 14th September 2005, 7:36 pm

Ben Hammersley: New Site, New Everything. Black backgrounds are the new Zeldman Orange.

# 14th September 2005, 7:30 pm / ben-hammersley

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