Warning: If you hold Spiderman as a sacred god or can’t handle sex jokes and crude language then stay away.
Otherwise you need to go read this stuff because it is funny as all hell. Some make no sense while others make you laugh. Of course you have to have a twisted sense of humor to […]

Andrew writes: The PEAR Group has accepted the proposal for the first beta of Text_Highlighter - a PEAR package for highlighting source code in virtually any programming language.

The main idea is to simplify creation of subclasses implementing syntax highlighting for particular language. Subclasses do not implement any new functionality, they just provide syntax highlighting rules. […]

If any of you develop web pages using Mozilla or Mozilla FireFox, I’m sure that you’ve come to rely on its DOMInspector, which gives you a ton of information about each element on a given page, and how the element relates to those around it. I know that it’s helped me to fix a few […]

This is how Open Source companies need to start marketing. Get creative and stuff! Even if you don’t like Linux you should go watch this to at least get a laugh out of it.
Good luck getting the song out of your head though…

I don’t know too much about the history of Napoleon, but I figured this would be of interest to someone out there.

Every day the doctors gave Napoleon an enema to relieve his symptoms. “They used really big, nasty syringe-shaped things,” Karch says. This, combined with regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate to make him vomit, […]

As you have probably heard by now, Microsoft has bought Lookout Software. Lookout has written an add-in for Outlook which allows you to easily search your PST files, much faster than Outlook’s built in search allows you to do (see my previous post for more infomration on it). Since that time, Lookout has released a […]

Nykris have released a collection of spoken word audio and text files that review many different restrooms in the central London area. The guide will help you decide where to freshen up, by choosing the bathroom with the nicest facilities. The reviews include snippets like this one:
“Plenty of hand washing facilities, lovely clean mirrors, each […]

Michael Kanellos takes a look at some of the new keyboards hitting the streets and offers his opinions. He is currently working with the Frogpad (the one pictured) and admits to it being a little difficult to learn.

The FrogPad’s main design feature is that it plays off the natural strength of the human hand. The […]

Stupid. Cocky. Have balls. Pick 2.
You may or may not know by now, but the IE Team has put out their collaborative blog. No exciting posts so far with “Mozilla Firef*ck” titles, but I am sure they will come in time.
While we wait, I can only imagine the onslaught of fanboys and disgruntled web designers/developers […]

WebReference has a review up of WestCiv’s latest and greatest piece of software, Layout Master. For those having trouble with CSS layouts this software seems to be your saving grace. I know John and Maxine personally (on an email level) and they are some great people so I think it would be cool just to […]

The Microsoft IE team is hiring. Join up and make the world a better place for designers everywhere and become an instant hero/web celeb.

Jakob Nielsen’s partner in crime, Don Norman (the one who has some sense in his head), has released the news that he is advising Microsoft on Longhorn. Interested to see what comes out of this and if anything at all comes out of it.

Norman, who has written several books on usability, was Apple’s design guru […]

Heh, well it doesn’t get much more useful than this. You can also download the source code to tinker around with it. Messing with the .htaccess files is no fun unless you have some good examples. Once you start to rely on the Apache Documentation you are in for a long night. Of course I […]

The incomparable ArsTechnica crew review Apple’s latest doohickey.

For a piece of hardware that performs so many functions, it actually does them all fairly well. In looking through Apple’s AirPort Express website, you can see the way Apple pitches it: it’s the small, portable device that can extend your wireless, digital lifestyle throughout the home. Now […]

If you’ve ever used BitTorrent (Tomato Torrent client for Mac OS X) and were disappointed by the download speeds, try poking a hole through your firewall from 6881 to 6889. It quadrupled the speeds I was getting.
For those using the default Mac OS X firewall, you can edit the open ports in the “Sharing” section […]

Preston Gralla, a Windows user since the dark days of Windows 3.1, describes his first experiences with Linux. Sadly, for the open-source community, Gralla is unconvinced by the experience.
I was surprised at how simple it was to install and get up to speed on Linux. And the desktop has some nice touches that Windows could […]