links for 2006-01-31
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Since widespread SVG adoption is a ways off, John Oxton's come up with a Flash-based mechanism for creating a scalable website logo, which scales with the user's font size without loss of quality. Very nice looking.
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"The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge [on Wikipedia]. The alterations on Wikipedia represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by staffers at the House of Representatives in the last 6 months."
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Easily plot places onto a Yahoo Map using the hReview and geo microformats. Very cool.
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kritX spiders for hReview-containing websites, and aggregates the reviews together onto its front page.
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For me, it was a stretch from Tuesday afternoon until Friday night.
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Claims to be a Rails-like framework for PHP.
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I love the double meaning of the museum director's statement: "It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident, but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed."
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This is why Firefox waits several seconds before allowing you to install extensions.