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RCDefaultApp (via) Useful app for disabling help:, disk: and disks: among other things.
Google Corporate Information: Software Principles (via) Don’t be evil.
Creating colour palettes (via) Simple, smart trick for coming up with a colour palette.
EU votes through software patent changes (via) There goes the neighbourhood.
Design Eye for the Usability Guy. Jakob Nielsen gets the makeover of a life time.
Curiosity is bliss: Video streaming over HTTP. VLC + DivX can jump to points in a file as well.
Writing The Code is the Easy Bit. Why writing a CMS gets harder with experience.
Top 10 Elements of Good Software Design. Always a worthy topic.
Random access to Web audio. Standard MP3s can be randomly accessed using HTTP’s range header—without any extra server software.
Mac OS X URI Handler Arbitrary Code Execution (via) Very nasty: affects all web browsers, allows compromise by malicious web sites.
Childless couple told to try sex. But of course, abstinence only sex education is the way to go.
Why Windows is a Security Nightmare. The pain of Windows Update over a 56K modem.
The Fishbowl: Type Inference and Java. Why Java’s implementation of static typing is stupid.
indieWIRE BLOGS: Morgan Spurlock. The director of Super Size Me has a blog, updated daily.
RTFM: A Guide to Online Research. An oldie but goldie from Steve Champeon. Watch out for the intrusive ads though (and bemoan the demise of WebMonkey).
Joho the Blog: “We are legal”. Dave Weinberger reports from Massachusetts.
Eurovision Contestants. RealPlayer videos of every song!
Kisstory in action (via) Indiana has a law on the books that makes it illegal for a man with a moustache to “habitually kiss human beings.”
Testing Page Load Speed. Dave Hyatt on browser benchmarks and how browsers handle page layouts.
Implementing Bayesian Inference Using PHP. PHP for statistical anlysis.
Bitkeeper after the storm (via) How the commercial BitKeeper has helped increase Linux Kernel productivity.
A French blogger arrested by the Police because of his blogging. They had to let him go.
Freedom 0. Mark Pilgrim switches to WordPress.
LugRadio Episode 7 (via) I wish they had permalinks for each episode.
Why the W3C wants Atom. Matt May explains all.
Google Groups (Beta) (via) Now has Yahoo! Groups style “create a group” functionality, mailing lists, Atom feeds and more.
Google Image Ads. Hopefully these are only for AdSense and won’t show up in Google’s search results.
W3C proposes an Atom working group. Can you smell the flames yet?
Google Blog (via) Currently lacking a human voice (no name on some posts). Let’s hope they fix that.
Bright Creative (via) Dave Shea’s consulting business gets a great looking redesign.