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Campaign Monitor’s released their 2007 Guide to CSS Support in Email, a comprehensive study of CSS support by both desktop and webmail clients. This guide is an essential for anyone sending HTML mails out, especially in wide distribution as part of a mailing list or e-mail marketing.
Attorney and activist Jack Thompson yesterday wrote a letter to Bill Gates blaming him for the Virginia Tech shootings. Thompson claims that Cho Seung Hui was trained to enjoy violent killing by playing Counterstrike, which he claims Microsoft developed. Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, [...]
This is why I don’t watch Fox News: Their reporting isn’t news. It’s below the level of a tabloid. They just make things up. They’re claiming, quoting several “experts”, that the Virginia Tech shooter may have been possessed by Satan.
I’m pretty sure Utah’s ban on keyword advertising is further down the stupidity list than that patent on doubly linked lists the patent office issued.
I thought this was pretty neat. It’s a mosaic created with thousands of images taken on every continent, 40 different countries, by 60 different photographers all at the exact same time.
I just finished reading Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face, the first part of ars technica’s Vista review. It’s a very interesting article if you’re curious about why Vista really took so long to complete and what it offers beyond semi-transparent window borders.
This isn’t exactly news, but I just read about it today on another blog. Someone managed to get patent #7028023 for “a computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences”.
Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application 37Signals’ book on web application development is now free to read online. No more $19 to download. It’s written without much fluff and with a lot of whitespace — a quick read.
Agile processes, are they killing our children? A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.
Where the Hell is Matt? Another YouTube viral marketing video. Did you notice the Stride gum logo appear several times? Would you have noticed it if I didn’t mention it?
