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MSN does wonders for FoxSports.com. People are sheep.
windowing the elements of an iterable. Strange voodoo itertools magic.
FOXNews.com’s ludicrous link policy. And another one.
FOXSports.com’s ludicrous link policy. In brief: send our legal department a letter first.
Wired News: It’s Just the ’internet’ Now. Wired update their style guidelines.
Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street) (via) Entertaining story about a guy, his motorcycle and a psychotic squirrel. I like squirrels.
Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good (via) Unlicensed spectrum explained by Clay Shirky.
Pastor jailed for murderous text messages (via) “A Swedish pastor has been jailed for life for faking text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress.”
Olympic Games 2004 Hyperlink Policy (via) Yet Another Asshat Linking Policy.
Amendment No. 7 to Form S-1 (via) aka the Google Playboy interview, made public by the SEC.
Job Vacancy: Web Developer (in Bristol). An opportunity for a recent graduate.
6. Writing programs to use Aspell. Full documentation of Aspell’s pipe based API.
Python Cookbook : spell checking. And here’s how to do it (“ispell -a” worked for me).
8 quick ways to fix your search engine. Suggesting the correct spelling of search terms is a good idea.
Jon Udell: Pub/sub, tags, and human filters. Maybe del.icio.us style labels scale better than I thought.
BBC begins open-source streaming challenge (via) Hopefully this means video on the web will suck less.
This Year’s Document Object Model. Jeremy Keith says that the DOM is the new CSS.
Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.
Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages (via) Redefining scripting languages to reflect their wider appeal.
Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified. Molly’s latest.
Implementing Full Text Indexing with PostgreSQL (via) TSearch2 tutorial.
Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions. PDF versions of newspapers are a flop.
Making the Jump to Subversion (via) Excellent tutorial from MacDevCenter.com.
Practical SAX Notes. Making more sense of Python’s XML modules.
Building Web Services the REST Way. A good brief introduction.
Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines. All the cool kids are doing it now.
Mozilla and XForms. Matt May on XForms in Mozilla.
The Python Paradox (via) Short but sweet.
MS Windows/IE Bug. Crashing a PC using an over-sized image tag.
Jon Udell: del.icio.us. Jon is doing some interesting things with the del.icio.us tagging system.