Linky Links
- A List Apart, the excellent online web tech magazine, is back! Fresh and new with a crisp v3.0 pleasing design. Also three new articles including Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement, Sliding Doors of CSS and Random Image Rotation.
- Amazon today launched a new feature allowing people to search the actual content of more than 120,000 books (33 million pages). Pretty darn nifty.
- Expletive deleted is an article from Guardian Unlimited on the commonality and loss of harshness of the word 'fuck'. Reminds me of that audio clip, Usage of the word fuck from a few years back.
- Scoble, the ex-UserLand-now-Microsoft employee writes a fairly enthusiastic piece for his weblog titled: How to Hate Microsoft. Also make sure to read Diego's bang-on and oft-amusing response.
- Another album bought on win32 iTunes: Everything to Everyone by the Barenaked Ladies. Also check out the very hip BNL Blog.
- The daily dose of Oliver, Daily.
- Creo, a company I worked for during University, just released a new app to allow the easy transfer of files between computers. Creo Tokens. Install the software, create a token based on a file you want to transfer and then send the small (few kb) token to somebody. The software locally transforms into a server awaiting the end recipient to redeem their token. No FTP. No spliced attachments. Cool.
- Ever wonder what happened to those cool characters we used to draw boxes with in the BBS days? Or perhaps you process unicode files and wanted to know what those ever-present first three characters meant? Either way, you should check out JoelOnSoftware's recent article on character encodings The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- Some Googly interviews: Blogger creator Evan Williams and our VP of Engineering, Wayne Rosing and here is an interview about Google with Jason Kottke.
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