Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

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Facebook: just don't understand - Yelp Accused of Extortion | Threat Level | Wired.com - I don't use sites like Yelp very often, but I have to admit that this is a pretty clever scam that they seem to be running. They've probably gotten away with it for a ...

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My God—it's full of unicorns! - Meta Stack Overflow - This is hilarious. I'm going to have to play around with this in WP. Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com - C/o my darling, this is a pretty cool way to generate placeholder images. Alex Payne — On the iPad - ...

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Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans | Video on TED.com - Finally, details on the human-female-ovulation-synchronization idea that I was taught back in Gender Studies. It's a good and funny talk, and not just about that. The League of Moveable Type - Wow. Gorgeous open-source fonts. Race Card: If Successful ...

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A new “onload” scheme - Easy! Reader - This is a really clever way to avoid having page-specific JavaScript files (which I've done on larger projects). Tomorrow’s Women, Tomorrow’s World - A more British look at the decline of women in the IT industry. Clients From Hell : Of course I want ...

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omahas: "Educating" our little ones in the fascist state - How about this shit? "Apparently, Playmobil thought it was a good idea to come up with the Playmobil Security Check Point for kids." Official Google Blog: A new approach to China - "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined ...

Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday's shows, and I'll admit, he's given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I'm sure Greg will be jealous. I can't find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen ...

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10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...