Bite Size Standards, a fairly new and promising site covering web standards for the ADD set¹ is looking for authors.

I’ve read a few things this week that had me nodding along and saying Amen.

List of (dumb) things to do while waiting for an Intel-based iBook/MacBook

Do I get a macbook pro? Or do i get an intel imac? Or wait for the new ibook? Or just get a new battery for my now ancient powerbook? Maybe I’ll be able to make a decision /next/ week.

Flummoxed By Frameworks

Eric expresses his frustration over, among other things, the magicalness of frameworks. While I “get” most of these “new-fangled programming frameworks” I agree that needing to think like those creating the libraries is often the biggest, most under examined, aspect of being able to use them effectively.

IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed?

As seen at webstandards.org, PPK looks beyond the CSS advances and asks at what can be done to improve JavaScript support in future versions of Internet Explorer. Someone want to start a similar discussion covering Mozilla and Safari and Opera?

Brent Simmons has announced the release of NetNewsWire 2.1.

There I was moving some long forgotten magazines off one of my bookshelves and out popped this blast from the web design past from between two of them.

Sometimes it takes so little to make me laugh.

$260,000 sunk into a state slogan —tossed.

Elaborate contest where you too can write the new state motto takes place and a new motto found.

But wait just a second!

N.J. Scraps New Slogan; It’s Been Used

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey officials had said the new state slogan — “Come See for Yourself” — would highlight the Garden State’s true beauty.

But it turns out that at least one other state already had the same idea.

State tourism officials say they have canned the slogan because some states, including West Virginia, have used it in the past.

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UPDATE Fark is on the case