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Chernobyl “Ghost town” was a fraud. Post-apocalyptic biker chick fantasies aren’t all they appear.

# 23rd May 2004, 7:02 pm

trademarked, patented shrubbery. “Propagation of this plant is prohibited due to patent protection.”

# 23rd May 2004, 6:47 pm

Ticked Off? Visited Links How-To (via) Neat checkbox styling for visited links.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:38 pm

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation (via) Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can’t believe I missed it htis year.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:35 pm / bruce-sterling, microsoft, scaling, sxsw

Agency: Chalabi group was front for Iran (via) Claims the Iranians were feeding misinformation to the US government via Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress.

# 22nd May 2004, 7:36 pm / misinformation

Design Issues for the World Wide Web. A collection of TBL’s thoughts on web architecture.

# 22nd May 2004, 6:47 am

What are these “Threading Models” and why do I care? (via) I’ve promised myself that some day I will read this.

# 22nd May 2004, 6:26 am

Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs. Whoa, clubbers will do anything!

# 22nd May 2004, 6:10 am

SICP Lectures (via) Available in DivX and MPEG.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:52 am

Attacked by Thugs (via) Hilarious tale of Warsaw’s Finest.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:48 am

The Infinite Cat Project (via) Just keep hitting “Next Cat”

# 22nd May 2004, 5:08 am

Mac OS X helpviewer security flaw fixed. Hit Software Update. Not sure if this fixes the telnet: variety though.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:08 am / macos, security

Girl Power! Cootie Catcher (via) On a .gov site? Watch out for the scary animated gif.

# 20th May 2004, 7:50 pm

RCDefaultApp (via) Useful app for disabling help:, disk: and disks: among other things.

# 20th May 2004, 6:45 pm

Creating colour palettes (via) Simple, smart trick for coming up with a colour palette.

# 20th May 2004, 12:39 am

Design Eye for the Usability Guy. Jakob Nielsen gets the makeover of a life time.

# 19th May 2004, 3:31 pm / jakob-nielsen, usability

Curiosity is bliss: Video streaming over HTTP. VLC + DivX can jump to points in a file as well.

# 19th May 2004, 3:33 am / http

Writing The Code is the Easy Bit. Why writing a CMS gets harder with experience.

# 19th May 2004, 1:27 am

Random access to Web audio. Standard MP3s can be randomly accessed using HTTP’s range header—without any extra server software.

# 18th May 2004, 10:03 pm / http-range-requests

Mac OS X URI Handler Arbitrary Code Execution (via) Very nasty: affects all web browsers, allows compromise by malicious web sites.

# 18th May 2004, 3:39 pm / macos, security

Childless couple told to try sex. But of course, abstinence only sex education is the way to go.

# 18th May 2004, 5:51 am

Why Windows is a Security Nightmare. The pain of Windows Update over a 56K modem.

# 18th May 2004, 5:50 am / security, windows

The Fishbowl: Type Inference and Java. Why Java’s implementation of static typing is stupid.

# 18th May 2004, 5:45 am / java, static-typing

indieWIRE BLOGS: Morgan Spurlock. The director of Super Size Me has a blog, updated daily.

# 18th May 2004, 5:31 am

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).

# 18th May 2004, 3:19 am

Years

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