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FOXSports.com’s ludicrous link policy. In brief: send our legal department a letter first.

# 17th August 2004, 5:44 pm / law

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.

# 15th August 2004, 5:24 pm / funny, squirrels

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.”

# 14th August 2004, 8:17 am

Olympic Games 2004 Hyperlink Policy (via) Yet Another Asshat Linking Policy.

# 14th August 2004, 7:49 am

Amendment No. 7 to Form S-1 (via) aka the Google Playboy interview, made public by the SEC.

# 13th August 2004, 11:34 pm

Job Vacancy: Web Developer (in Bristol). An opportunity for a recent graduate.

# 13th August 2004, 5:52 pm

6. Writing programs to use Aspell. Full documentation of Aspell’s pipe based API.

# 13th August 2004, 5:35 pm

Python Cookbook : spell checking. And here’s how to do it (“ispell -a” worked for me).

# 13th August 2004, 5:35 pm

8 quick ways to fix your search engine. Suggesting the correct spelling of search terms is a good idea.

# 13th August 2004, 5:34 pm

Jon Udell: Pub/sub, tags, and human filters. Maybe del.icio.us style labels scale better than I thought.

# 13th August 2004, 5:34 pm / delicious, jon-udell

BBC begins open-source streaming challenge (via) Hopefully this means video on the web will suck less.

# 13th August 2004, 5:21 pm

This Year’s Document Object Model. Jeremy Keith says that the DOM is the new CSS.

# 13th August 2004, 3:57 pm

Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.

# 13th August 2004, 3:56 pm / firefox

Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages (via) Redefining scripting languages to reflect their wider appeal.

# 13th August 2004, 3:55 pm

Woeful Circulations for Digital Editions. PDF versions of newspapers are a flop.

# 12th August 2004, 11:22 pm

Making the Jump to Subversion (via) Excellent tutorial from MacDevCenter.com.

# 12th August 2004, 10:36 pm / subversion

Practical SAX Notes. Making more sense of Python’s XML modules.

# 12th August 2004, 10:36 pm

Mozilla and XForms. Matt May on XForms in Mozilla.

# 12th August 2004, 10:24 pm / mozilla

MS Windows/IE Bug. Crashing a PC using an over-sized image tag.

# 12th August 2004, 7:01 pm

Jon Udell: del.icio.us. Jon is doing some interesting things with the del.icio.us tagging system.

# 12th August 2004, 5:03 pm / delicious, jon-udell, tagging

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