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This site uses “Fly-out” menus to increase usability. (via) The irony of this statement appearing on the “how to use our navigation” page is delicious.

# 26th March 2004, 1:49 am / usability

Kansas Legislature: Senate defeats gay marriage ban. Maybe Kansas isn’t so backwards after all.

# 26th March 2004, 1:11 am

PyCon 2004 SubEthaEdit notes (via) I couldn’t get to PyCon this year but the notes are excellent.

# 26th March 2004, 12:59 am

Dijkstra paper in his own handwriting. “Why American Computing Science Seems Incurable”

# 25th March 2004, 7:41 pm

iwaskissedbyminjung.org Club (via) Bah, looks like I missed out on a great closing party.

# 24th March 2004, 11:31 pm

I’ve been exposed. I’m still amazed that OS X lets me get away with this kind of flagrant abuse.

# 24th March 2004, 4:27 pm

Unicode: Dividing the world One Character, and Between One and Six Bytes, At A Time. (via) If you thought you had problems with unicode, you aint seen nothing yet!

# 24th March 2004, 6:59 am

IE enhancements in Service Pack 2 (via) From a Microsoft blogger who works on the IE team.

# 24th March 2004, 12:28 am

Whiskey Bar: Out of the Loop. More fun at Bush’s expense. I love keeping politics in the link blog.

# 23rd March 2004, 6:03 am

Quicksilver (via) This is SO much cooler than LaunchBar.

# 23rd March 2004, 5:25 am

PyProtocols (via) Weird and wonderful method of adapting classes to interfaces at runtime.

# 23rd March 2004, 5:24 am

Google Search: winningest. Until today, I didn’t think “winningest” was a real word.

# 22nd March 2004, 8:21 pm

New Technorati beta launches. I’m still waiting for my “claim ownership” request to go through.

# 22nd March 2004, 7:06 pm / technorati

Lockergnome Happy Ending. The moment this goes live I’m going to say lots of nice things about it.

# 22nd March 2004, 6:04 am

Kick! scores (via) I was on team 1.

# 22nd March 2004, 5:40 am

rzip (via) Better compression ratios than bzip2.

# 22nd March 2004, 1:50 am

XP Service Pack 2 Review. Several welcome security improvements for those still suffering on Windows ;)

# 21st March 2004, 9:14 pm / security, windows

Airport Codes: A History and Explanation (via) I finally understand why Kansas City International is MCI.

# 21st March 2004, 8:48 pm

Eastern Standard Tribe (Wired November 2001) (via) The origin of the idea for Cory’s most recent novel?

# 21st March 2004, 7:55 pm / cory-doctorow

Netscape Toolbar for IE (via) AOL continue to rape Netscape’s corpse.

# 21st March 2004, 7:48 pm

ICANN: Ten New Sponsored TLD Applications Received. Finally a TLD for filtering all of those cat picture sites.

# 21st March 2004, 7:37 pm

Bill Gates goes dumpster diving. “The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”

# 21st March 2004, 7:13 pm

XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools (via) Expert analysis from Uche Ogbuji.

# 20th March 2004, 12:48 am / xml

CSS Diagrams (via) Pushing CSS towards SVG.

# 20th March 2004, 12:35 am

Years

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