The beans have been spilt.

In a post far too early this morning Molly outlines the activities of the Web Standards Project during the SXSW festival that is getting ready to start up in a few days including the following sessions:

• WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done Right
• WaSP Annual Meeting

But the juicy info she let go is that during the events the ribbon will be cut on the newly redesigned and rebuilt WaSP web site. I don’t want to give away any details just yet, but I think the facelift was well worth it and I think most will agree.

I won’t be attending the events myself (unless virtually) but I’m hoping all the WaSP Members and non-members alike have a great time while I sit back at my desk monitoring things from afar.

The site has been around for a few months now, but tonight it registered that FeedIcons.com, a site dedicated to spreading a “standard” icon, based on the Firefox feed icon for identifying feeds in a web page doesn’t actually use a feed for news, but instead asks for your email. In fact the only feed on the page is the release notes update and that isn’t setup to autodetect in browsers that do such a thing. When you go there in Firefox you get the extra special UI treat of having a “feed” icon, that is normally clickable, show up on the wrong side of the location bar!

So in honor of Feed Icons not having a feed that gets autodetected Place Name Here has a new favicon!

Hope I don’t confuse to many or cause too many INVALID bugzilla entries.

Filed under the headline “UPDATE: Streisand: The Webmaster Did It…” like almost all things that appear on Drudge the news item can be shrugged off as overblown and misrepresented for maximum dramatic effect. Its another “why do I care” tabloid bit about Celebrity Dems, but the linked coverage at the Daily News of Misspelling-Gate was worth pointing out anyway.

Yesterday, a couple of hours after Lowdown alerted the Streisand camp to Drudge’s spelling feint, her online polemic was corrected. And Streisand’s PR rep, Dick Guttman, sheepishly explained: “The errors — are regrettable and have resulted in a change in how the actress’ own contributions to the blog will be posted.” He blamed the mistakes on the company that operates Streisand’s Web site: “The errors occurred in that entity’s typing of the original dictated material. Henceforth, Ms. Streisand’s office will post her essays directly.”

Drudge quipped: “Ah, the perils of Internet journalism!”

Ah, indeed.

But isn’t it great to have some anonymous intern somewhere at an anonymous company that helps “operate a web site” to blame when things go south. So much easier then having to take any responsibility for anything.

A bunch of things worth talking about this week, but I seem to have run out of time. So here’s a link dump for yah, some of which can also be found at ma.gnolia.

• Boxes & Arrows: Hiding in Plain Sight: An Interview with Adam Greenfield
• Deconcept: Using alternate content as content in Flash
• And all that Malarkey: The IE7 MIX 06 release
• Eric Meyer: DevEdge Content Returns
• Layout Gala: 40 CSS Layouts
• WaSP: Kudos to Michigan State

I’m sure I missed some stuff too, I really need to find a better way to queue things to comment on besides just flagging items in NetNewsWire. Project for another day I guess.

Wevah just¹ posted a new update of Paparazzi! for OS X. The new version, though a small update, includes AppleScript support as well as automatic update checking.

Also worth mentioning, becuase its easy to overlook, the last version inculded support for a paparazzi: ‘protocol’ which allows for a simple bookmarklet like the following to grab a screenshot of the page currently in your browser:

javascript:void(document.location='paparazzi:'+document.location)

Earlier posts on Paparazzi!:

• Paparazzi! Update
• More Web Dev Goodies

¹ ok, well, yesterday, I’m a little behind

UPDATE 3/3: Already a new build out fixing a small bug or two in 0.4. See the change notes and grab a new download.