Dropsafe

for those who’ve been asking me what blogs are all about, and how they build and reinforce technical communities, surf through the following MSDN site for 10 minutes: [channel9.msdn.com]

[www.jayallen.org]

I have no idea if this would work on MacOS, to make Firefox look identical to (ahem) Safari. [www.aqua-soft.org]

I have a friend who’s going to get so much stick for this: [www.mirror.co.uk]

You’ve gotta go see the news article anyway, if only for the picture. [news.bbc.co.uk] A farm in the northern US state of Alaska has given Easter egg decoration a whole new meaning. Triple D Farm and Hatchery, in Palmer, injects the eggs with dye to produce multi-coloured baby chicks. Children visiting the farm in the…

Another one from MetaFilter. [www.metafilter.com]

[news.bbc.co.uk] By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind. This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University’s Professor Ross Anderson. In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those…

[www.28mm.org]

the patron saints of graphic design [lynnster.com] This Flemish maiden (who is also the Patroness of the city of Cmyk) was the niece of Saint Gertrude of Trumatch. Famously compassionate and harboring a flair for drama, Pantone caused a miraculous fountain to spring from the earth (it is there to this day), the waters of…

Amusing log entry – well, I think so anyway – slightly anonymised; this demonstrates that PlanetSun is getting noticed, not least because it is now in Bloglines, which explains the hourly hit I’ve been taking from that site too… Site hit rate now in the 3500+ per day range. ____.chi.playboy.com ip: ___.___.___.___:11302 mtd: GET /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi…

from chris samuel’s blog: [www.csamuel.org]

Received from my friend Rob Diamond, and probably the next meme-du-jour: [www.albinoblacksheep.com] “Soundtrack made entirely in SNDREC32.EXE”