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It’s a threat to national security to say that the Supreme Court fears the abuse of “threat to national security.”

Morbus mixes it up with Dr. Gizmo over who’s more real.

PHP 5.1 is going to let you set the bozo bit and parse not-well-formed XML with something that’s also an XML parser. Good for them, I say.

BugMeNot, the solution to having to constantly tell newspapers that you are a 91 year old woman from Afghanistan, got shoved off its host. Thousands will be unable to read poorly-researched articles for a few days while it moves to offshore hosting.

In the past, when I got back from my annual offline vacation, my biggest problem was plowing through email and spam. This time, that wasn’t too bad, but the unread item count in Bloglines was a killer: 5250 unread items. A few hundred, certainly less than a thousand, were just things like stale weather reports, […]

Popup ads have now done their job: if you bring anything, anything at all, into view over the top of your main program or web page window, whether it’s a dialog or an error message or whatever, it will be instantly closed without even a glance. It’s time to find a way to communicate inside your existing page, because all things that pop up are now popup ads, to be instantly swatted.

If you’re going to accuse someone of the shocking crime of having a web page that’s eight clicks away from porn, it’s probably best to not be seven clicks away yourself.

W3C: More Mouths Means More Places For Our Feet.

Community is the thing with wallets and fangs, if you are a modern-day online marketer.

Aimless Rooney-esque rambling about the ubiquity of ‘blogs’ and the annoyance of forced free registration, and several big juicy kisses for BugMeNot.