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Your first and second points are contradictory.

Ah ha!

http://akismet.com/blog/2006/05/systems-error/

"We had a systems problem earlier today which caused spam to not get caught for some of our users."

I've been seeing the same rise, but Askimet's catching all of mine.

Are they iframes or some other included file? They look like they'd be where an external ad server would show up. Not so bizarre in that situation.

I'm a tad baffled by the "change product key" option.

It would seem, though, that the main point - that DRM reduces your battery life significantly - remains intact.

This has been in SafariStand for quite some time. I prefer their implementation, too - a sidebar on the left, always visible, instead of having to be opened in another tab.

Firefox isn't the only app Microsoft steals from, silly. ;-)

In Safari, you've just written the widest page ever, not the longest. Doesn't wrap. :-p

But the music isn't the software, shorty114.

I don't see why Apple shouldn't be allowed to GPL iTunes without having to permit any and all usages of the protected songs if they felt like it.

What about those behind proxies, NATs, etc.?

Ugh. Not a good sign.

Saw that on Slashdot earlier. Your entry tags are a nice touch!

Absolutely unbelivable. London 2012 doesn't bother me much, nor does the motto... but the individual, common words? Games? Gold? 2012? Sponsor?

Crazy shit.

Not sure I like the darker blue as much as I liked the lighter one.

Whatever you think of IE, the logo has always been a spot where they've defeated Firefox & Co. Far more professional.

p.s. I get a 403 error when trying to view the IE7 image directly from my RSS reader. :-p

I thought these were in Google Maps since the first day it went worldwide. I know I zoomed in on Melbourne that day and was able to see individual houses just like the United States satellite imagery permits.

Street maps would still be wonderful, though.

Pretty cool... a map site battle means we win!

I'll be keeping an eye out for a VE API...

We get the error 260 a lot with our Cingular plans on their website.

Oh, and whenever we click "Contact" it goes to a page telling us to login... which we do, click "Contact" again, and get told to login again. Argh!

Better than Sprint, at least.

p.s. just saw the new site design - looks nice!

Hey, it's publically available data.

People intending to keep secrets shouldn't post their secrets to the Internet, and they certainly shouldn't try deceiving people into taking those secrets down.

On the other hand, saving a single character or two results in terabytes of saved bandwidth for the amount of traffic they get.

That's not a fun theory, but it's a good one.

As a very recent switcher, I've gotta disagree with the "usability disaster" assessment.

I certainly find it more useful than Windows's Start Menu, especially when coupled with the wonderful app QuickSilver. I use the Dock for my most common apps - FTP, text editor, Terminal, Firefox, etc. - and QuickSilver to launch the rest with a quick Control+Space.

Wow, Mark Hamil looks beat up.

Interesting that they censor the rooftops and courtyards...

Whoops, yeah, I should have noted that it's the comments that are amusing.

Basically, he wrote an entry that mentioned the show (which is like a slightly tamer Jerry Springer style talk show) and it wound up with a higher PageRank than the official site.

People, clicking on the first link they saw and completely ignoring the obvious signs that it was not the official show website, started posting their stories and requests for a spot on the show.

Rather bizzare reading, some of it.

Best example of such things - http://www.laze.net/fait/archive/2002/07/28/mau...