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So, what is your recession sales strategy?

This one has been tickling me for a while, but just now I’ve found a nice compact example to show you. The above is a screencap from my feed reader. The link text is an ad that’s been appearing in … more…

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HTML 5, further still

Ooo-okay then: there’s good news, and there’s, well, there’s Internet Explorer. First the good news – I have located an honest-to-goodness (if “highly experimental”) HTML5 validator, and after whacking a few niggly bits, we are now officially valid HTML 5 … more…

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Accelerated calendar

This here diagram is the handmade record of the 96 day mission of Russian cosmonaut Georgi Grechko aboard Salyut 6, showing sunrises, sunsets, work and sleep schedules, resupply deliveries, and so forth. The word used for this species of chart … more…

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MSFirefox

Dynamic security protection Microsoft Firefox 2007 provides security through a robust new architecture, security features that help defend against malicious software, and new ways to better protect against the theft of personal data from fraudulent websites, a practice known as … more…

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Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: You’re Making a What?

Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: You’re Making a What? I realise I’m a few days behind the curve in blogging this now, but as you may have noticed I’ve been a bit busy with unruly code. Mitch Kapor (co-founder of EFF) has … more…

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Microsoft issues 51st security bulletin of the year

Microsoft issues 51st security bulletin of the year 51st and 52nd, in fact. Two were issued on the same day. This amounts to a new security flaw announcement every five days. Microsoft apologists tend to ask – but if they’re … more…

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A Contrarian View of Open Source

A Contrarian View of Open Source – wonderfully intemperate Bruce Sterling rant from the recent O’Reilly Open Source Convention: Microsoft Windows is slowly but surely becoming an armed terrorspace. It’s like an airport. You go into an airport nowadays, it’s … more…

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Mac users outsmart PC users

News: Report: Mac users outsmart PC users – now tell me if this isn’t an extremely peculiar story to find on MSN, of all places? (We Mac users are also better looking and have better taste in music, too. Probably.) … more…

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The Scourge of Arial

The Scourge of Arial – history lesson: how and why Arial came to be… (via Liberal Arts Mafia)

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illegal to replace the OS?

A-and, according to Microsoft – “It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine.” – illegal to replace the OS? In which country???

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