Karl Dubost asks about weblogs by W3C team members. Can blogging bring the W3C back to relevancy? (Notice any similarities about the three weblogs he links? 🙂 )

When you load up a plane with too much trash

Fable of the Fable, debunking the oft-cited economics paper that tries to discredit the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard layout.

Give every site you visit a body ID, because everybody needs somebody.

How many clicks from Google to your site? The action is at Kottke’s open thread. My best is 5.

Jeremy’s comment policy, #4 (don’t provide a URI to a non-weblog site) site is something that has always bugged me but I’ve never pinned down. I’ve had a fellow weblogger comment with his URI as his business site instead of his weblog before, presumably to help generate inbound links. Generally in these cases I nuke the URI but leave the comment.

Wouldn’t it be great if when you bought a CD on iTunes they would ship you the actual CD (so you have a high-quality backup, liner notes, etc) in addition to letting you download the entire album?

Yahoo is actively blocking Ping-O-Matic pings. You can use this page to request they allow Ping-O-Matic again. Please pass this on.

Is turning off the image toolbar wrong?

I’m a strong believer in following random links every now and then. You’ll never know what you find.

BackupPC, the most thorough and capable backup system I’ve seen. I need to get this running this week now that my backup/storage server is online. This could backup my laptop using samba.

Hi-MD Topics FAQ, like a Minidisc but with 1GB of storage. (!)

Slashdot | Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates, very nice. This will make moving accounts between servers much more painless.

Shelley’s modifications to WordPress.

Photography Composition Articles Library. Hat tip: Donncha.

Carthik breaks one of the WordPress easter eggs, which is really more of a developer’s shortcut tool.

Tim Bray reads the entire Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq and shares his comments on it.

If you have left a comment on this site before, you should no longer be seeing the Google ads.

HTTP 1.1 Testimonials, from when the IETF and W3C worked together.