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Now, Really, As Bigoted As You Think. Kansas passed the gay marriage amendment.

# 6th April 2005, 4:14 pm

Interview: 43Folders’ Merlin Mann. LifeHacker talks to a Life Hacker.

# 6th April 2005, 10:17 am

Customizing Opera. Tips from one of Opera’s developers.

# 6th April 2005, 9:51 am

Multi-threaded JavaScript (with Rhino). Good tutorial on using Rhino to do cool things with JavaScript.

# 6th April 2005, 6:42 am

My childhood, seen by Google Maps. Very clever use of Flickr notes and Google Maps.

# 6th April 2005, 6:40 am / flickr

More Nifty Corners. Now with wider browser support and mild anti-aliasing.

# 6th April 2005, 6:38 am

Channel 4 Broadband. Watch Channel 4 content online for a fiver a month. Sadly, it’s RealPlayer.

# 5th April 2005, 6:39 am

Google Maps—The White House. I love how the roofs of the nearby buildings are blacked out. Must be where they keep the SAMs.

# 5th April 2005, 6:29 am

Google Maps: UK. The satellite photos cover the whole world—up to a certain zoom level.

# 5th April 2005, 6:21 am

Toothing was a hoax! How disappointing. Shows how easy it is to create a fake story though.

# 5th April 2005, 5:09 am

Episode III Line FAQ (via) Yup, the line for Star Wars Episode III has its own FAQ.

# 4th April 2005, 10:33 pm

Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation (via) Jon Udell combines LibraryLookup and Greasemonkey in his latest screencast.

# 4th April 2005, 6:19 am / greasemonkey, jon-udell

My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC!

# 4th April 2005, 1:43 am / eniac, flickr, photos, squirrels

Adding a ’bak’ comment to your .bash_profile. Quickly create a timestamped backup of a file.

# 3rd April 2005, 11:44 pm

CSS tips and tricks, Part 2. Floats, centering, CSS hacks.

# 3rd April 2005, 8:15 pm

CSS tips and tricks, Part 1. The cascade, descendant selectors and more.

# 3rd April 2005, 8:14 pm

Yahoo Favelets. Bookmarklets for enhancing Yahoo! member profile search.

# 3rd April 2005, 7:17 pm

Patterns of Intermediation. Design patterns for bookmarklets, greasemonkey and similar.

# 3rd April 2005, 7:16 pm / bookmarklets, design-patterns, greasemonkey

Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching. In light of the whole WordPress kerfluffle, I’m surprised this story didn’t get much attention.

# 3rd April 2005, 6:58 pm

SxSW 2005 photos. I finally got around to posting my SxSW photos to Flickr.

# 3rd April 2005, 5:52 am / flickr

How to Use UTF-8 with Python. When to use that tricky .encode() method.

# 2nd April 2005, 8:49 am

amazon2melvyl. Greasemonkey script that embeds icons in data: URIs—kudos to Phil Ringnalda for that idea.

# 2nd April 2005, 8:43 am / greasemonkey, phil-ringnalda

del.icio.us/tag/aprilfools. No need for me to keep linking to them now.

# 1st April 2005, 6:53 pm / delicious

stopdesign.com. Hit refresh a few times.

# 1st April 2005, 6:38 pm

Years

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