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Chernobyl “Ghost town” was a fraud. Post-apocalyptic biker chick fantasies aren’t all they appear.
trademarked, patented shrubbery. “Propagation of this plant is prohibited due to patent protection.”
WordPress 1.2. It’s here.
Ticked Off? Visited Links How-To (via) Neat checkbox styling for visited links.
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.
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.
Design Issues for the World Wide Web. A collection of TBL’s thoughts on web architecture.
Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation (via) I want a Giant Fresnel Lens
What are these “Threading Models” and why do I care? (via) I’ve promised myself that some day I will read this.
Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs. Whoa, clubbers will do anything!
SICP Lectures (via) Available in DivX and MPEG.
Attacked by Thugs (via) Hilarious tale of Warsaw’s Finest.
The Infinite Cat Project (via) Just keep hitting “Next Cat”
Mac OS X helpviewer security flaw fixed. Hit Software Update. Not sure if this fixes the telnet: variety though.
Girl Power! Cootie Catcher (via) On a .gov site? Watch out for the scary animated gif.
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).