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Tim Bray: Turn on Search

Idle Words: 100 Years of Turbulence and Nova: Wright Brother's Flying Machine

Nick Denton, maker of Gawker, Fleshbot and Gizmodo, ruins his reputation by stealing CSS layouts: The Case of Jackson vs. Gawker, which takes us directly to the question: CSS: Copyrightable?

Open Groupware Knoppix CD. Great Flash user interfaces at intentionallies.co.jp and ourtype.com. O'Reilly Network on Pitfalls of Transactions with PHP, Mark Pilgrim on Atom Authentication, Freshmeat.net with an XML-RPC API, vowe with MUTE File Sharing and Joseph Pranevich on The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

What a Crappy Present, brought to you by downhillbattle.org of recent RIAA warning sticker campaign fame. Incidentially, the Target outlet Lincoln Plaza, Worcester, MA that can be seen on one of the pictures (10:39AM) is where I bought some books on The Boss back in 1997 - el mundo es un panuelo

If there is something I need the British for, it is for their radio hosts: Kal Sutherland, Bob Harris and John Peel are a must. The BBC Radio on Demand Player serves you more streams than you possibly can consume, Radio Plus offers free and legal mp3 downloads of a number of songs that John Peel has featured on his show. More free MP3s at Matador Records, City Slang and, in abundancy, at Epitonic

Mike Pugh who traveled around the world and covered his trip in Movable Type powered Vagabonding travelogue (as mentioned here before), is back home: I braced myself for serious reverse-culture shock, but it never really came. So what now?