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A National ID Card Wouldn’t Make Us Safer. Someone needs to show this to the UK government.

# 15th April 2004, 2:05 am

Jew (via) Googlebomb

# 13th April 2004, 9:33 pm

It’s red, not pink. Eric’s latest book looks very different in the flesh.

# 13th April 2004, 5:09 am

Duck and Cover (via) The original video, brought to you by the Internet Archive.

# 13th April 2004, 4:13 am

XHTML Quicktime Object. A standards Compliant method for adding Quicktime movies to pages.

# 13th April 2004, 4:12 am / xhtml

Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content. “...you are guaranteed to get it wrong an unknown percentage of the time.”

# 11th April 2004, 3:22 pm

Groovy: Closures. I’d nearly written Groovy off as a pointless Jython clone, but it actually has some interesting features.

# 11th April 2004, 8:01 am / closures

Customer service droid cartoon on Penny Arcade. It may be about AT&T, but it could easily apply to Sprint as well.

# 11th April 2004, 2:03 am

Gmail accessibility. Mark Pilgrim: “The only way Gmail could be less accessible is if the entire site were built in Flash.”

# 10th April 2004, 7:12 am / accessibility, mark-pilgrim

More Eric Meyer on CSS (via) The pinkest book in the world, ever.

# 10th April 2004, 4:23 am

How to bribe the Maitre D (via) It’s easier than you think.

# 10th April 2004, 2:39 am

The Problem With Music (via) The producer of Nirvana’s “In Utero” shows how a band’s members can earn $4,000 each for a 250,000 selling album.

# 10th April 2004, 1:27 am

Boxes (via) DHTML doodling tool

# 9th April 2004, 11:06 pm

PEAR/PECL Weekly Summaries (via) Keep up to date on PEAR without following the mailing list.

# 9th April 2004, 7:06 pm

Subservient Chicken exposed! (via) An insider look at the smartest advertising meme in a long time.

# 9th April 2004, 2:21 am

Subservient Chicken (via) This is amazing. Tell the chicken to do things. Be inventive.

# 9th April 2004, 1:32 am

Downloading music gets more expensive (via) Recording Industry: “How can we screw our customers even more?”

# 8th April 2004, 11:12 pm

www.nsa.gov/kids (via) I like Crypto Cat.

# 8th April 2004, 4:57 pm

BBspot—W3C Announces New Features for CSS. "... CSS will support a new type of padding: padding_outside_of_the_friggin_element. Let’s see them mess that one up.”

# 8th April 2004, 4:43 pm

How To Sell Accessibility. Acts as a guide to selling standards as well.

# 8th April 2004, 7:37 am / accessibility

Jeffrey Veen: Editorial vs. Advertising. The screenshot will leave you speechless.

# 8th April 2004, 6:59 am

About LOAF. Share your hashed address book and tell when a new contact is a friend-of-a-friend.

# 8th April 2004, 3:23 am

Film-strip rollovers. Similar technique to pixy’s, but with Javascript.

# 7th April 2004, 10:51 pm

CanyonBridge Slips into Web Services Orchestration (via) Recreating applications in a browser window.

# 7th April 2004, 10:43 pm

“Scripting Language” My Arse: Using Python for Voice over IP (via) More about voice over IP protocols than you ever wanted to know.

# 7th April 2004, 10:41 pm

Years

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