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At the site of FunWebProducts is this warning. Please read carefully. By clicking one of the “FunWebProducts” above, you accept and agree to abide b...

We just watched A Man for All Seasons, about Thomas More. In it he is quoted as saying, Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on...

As further proof that c|net hires only the best and the brightest, Steven Shankland puffs up a piece about the release of the 2.6.16 kernel with this evidence: ...

Traipsing by Jeremy‘s after checking out Google Finance, I noticed this link in his sidebar: The Sun Doesn’t Shine On Me. The sad tale of JoyentR...

Is it too much to ask that web applications return an appropriate status code?

The current version of WordPress handles DEL and INS incorrectly. When WordPress attempts to enforce valid markup it moves DEL and INS out-of-context and insert...

One of the nice things about living or working in New York City is the convenience of social events. Events such as what looks to be a very interesting debate t...

Rick said that his friend Erik Heels said that his, Rick’s, employer, FeedBurner, doesn’t matter. This prompted Rick to write a bit about why FeedBu...

Zimran thinks mobile phones are due for simplification. I do too. I saw the LG Migo when I was in a Verizon Wireless store last year after my LG VX-6100 clamshe...

Is the look of a web site protected trade dress?

Let’s assume some stereotypes for a moment, and wonder if perhaps women understand the core of the business better than men do.

This map of the assessed values of properties in Manhattan by Bill Rankin, via David Sucher, and its companions, are an interesting piece of statistical art. I ...

Bill Amend‘s Foxtrot had a sequence from March 1st to 4th where Jason sets up a coffee shop in the kitchen. He discovers that the demand curve is inelasti...

Joe passed on this critical information about the Waterfall 2006 conference in Niagara. I hope to see y’all there.

Rick mentioned this journal of a father who lost his six year-old daughter to meningitis. … What can I say? I’ve been crying.

John Gruber points to P. Z. Myers’s piece, “Richard Cohen, advocate for ignorance,” in response to this work of Richard Cohen’s. Mr. Coh...

Do we assume that because we have difficulty learning a thing the children will also have difficulty?

I bought this Listen & Read Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Stories for the girls. Turns out the 2006 Honda Odyssey does not have a cassette player. We hadn’t ...

One of the first things that children learn through instruction is to recognize shapes, both plane and solid, though they are not often given the names of the s...

You can’t get fired for buying Microsoft I hear through the grapevine that there is evidence that the postulate is false.