QuickLinks are back in the game: some non-tech links burried deep into masses of geeky gibberish - have fun digging ;-)
Browsing
It's possible, and it's ridiculously easy: Multiple IE versions in one Windows installation. Further explanaitions in German, screenshot
Lean and mean: Mozilla-based K-Meleon 0.8 is out. It is a stripped-to-the-bones Mozilla browser with a Windows native GUI that makes exactly 0.1 version steps per year. With Firebird available, you might prefer that one. With only the Mozilla Suite available in the past, K-Meleon was the perfect demo how blazingly fast the Gecko engine is
Security snake oil: Matthew Thomas on "why SSL security certificates are a demonstrably unusable solution to the wrong problem"
Blogging
A visual guide to navigating blog comments and some other blog features explained at 1976design.com
Sebastien Paquet on Structured blogging
FeedDemom and MovableType, Typepad, Mozilla
A Mobile "Post It" for your Blog
Fastcompany on Joi Ito's weblog
Diego with an introduction to weblogs and syndication
Aggregating and Syndicating
Plugging the RSS usability hole by adding some bits of XSL and CSS. Another example by Anne van Kesteren. Sam Ruby does the same with ATOM feeds. Appears to be interesting, but rusty browsers (read: IE) might choke on this
Ken MacLeod: Is a Feed the right place for your Data?
Matt Thommes with another non-tech intro into newsfeeds, Infoworld with a more technical one
intraVnews is "a state of the art news aggregator that turns Microsoft Outlook into a news reader"
Newsable is a online aggregator
Feedroll lets you easily integrate feeds via JS into your site
Tapestry delivers comics strips via RSS feeds
Discussing
Clay Sharky on The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview; Paul Ford and others respond
Larry Ellison on understanding Bill Gates
Harvard Business School on Negotiating in China - via Stefan Smalla
Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?
Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics
Reading
Fleshbot has been launched and comes in straight and gay flavors. Don't miss Belle de Jour
New issues of This is a Magazine are out
First Monday: Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms
Corporate Identity: 15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design
Meet the Makers: A Conversation With John Witchel, the creator of BrowserCam
Old, but still fun: Client Quotes
Developing
Adam Trachtenberg on RESTian web services in PHP
Harry Fuecks on building your own Web Service with PHP and XML-RPC
MT::REST is - and I quote here - "a Perl package that provides Movable Type support for REST-style access to all of Movable Type's core functionality via an extensible framework using only methods inherent to HTTP and a simple XML vocabulary. REST queries and results can be validated against Movable Type REST weblog DTDs."
MOZQUERY is a Mozilla/Firebird extension for people that want to write RDF files from scratch using ASRDF (Abreviated Syntax for RDF). Mozquery converts this shorthand, outline style language version into full RDF
CSS
Seybold presentation: Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered
DOM Sortable Table with unobtrusive JS
The milov.nl !grid bookmarklet and the Centricle Ruler favelet
CSS Creator seems to be cool for the lazy
Tools
yahoo2mbox is an archiver for Yahoo! Groups
XSL sheets for LEO outline files
and finally
I really shouldn't link to it, because Nationmaster.com might keep you occupied for a while. So of course will Suicidegirls.com do ("Words" section does not require a membership)
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