Fable of the Fable, debunking the oft-cited economics paper that tries to discredit the benefits of the Dvorak keyboard layout.
Per Site User Stylesheets
Give every site you visit a body
ID, because everybody
needs somebody
.
GooLinks
How many clicks from Google to your site? The action is at Kottke’s open thread. My best is 5.
Jeremy’s Comments
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.
iTunes Idea
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?
Blocked by Yahoo
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.
Hixie on Apple
Ian Hickson on the Apple extensions, a really excellent write-up. He references and rebuts Eric’s proposal that I recently linked to and that was implemented by the Safari team. Found via Tim Bray’s thoughts.
More Image Toolbar
Surfing
I’m a strong believer in following random links every now and then. You’ll never know what you find.
BackupPC
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
Hi-MD Topics FAQ, like a Minidisc but with 1GB of storage. (!)
Speedy DNS
Slashdot | Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates, very nice. This will make moving accounts between servers much more painless.
WordPress Modifications
Photography Composition Articles Library
Photography Composition Articles Library. Hat tip: Donncha.
WordPress Easter Egg
Carthik breaks one of the WordPress easter eggs, which is really more of a developer’s shortcut tool.
Malice and Incompetence
Revised Ad Policy
If you have left a comment on this site before, you should no longer be seeing the Google ads.
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials, from when the IETF and W3C worked together.
Image Toolbar Header
I’m doing some code cleanup around here, and I came to a line in my <head>
that is soley to work around an Internet Explorer feature I don’t want on my site.
Here is the standard way to remove it:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
Since the http-equiv
attribute is meant to be simply a document-level replacement for real HTTP headers, and I have the ability to send out real HTTP headers, I decided to try out removing this line and replacing it with this bit of PHP, which according to the spec is functionally equivilent:
<?php header ('imagetoolbar: no'); ?>
Looks funky, but according to the HTTP 1.1 specification user agents should ignore headers they don’t recognize, so there’s no harm. However in my testing I was disappointed (though not terribly surprised) to find that Internet Explorer did not respect the header. I have trimmed other parts of my markup quite a bit though, and I’m willing to sacrifice this one line.
Gallery: 7-11-2004
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