Monthly Archives: November 2007

Spam Filter-Free Day

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Robin

As stumbled upon through the Akismet blog, Jesper Rønn-Jensen is planning to completely disable his spam filters on December 15. While that may sound a bit crazy, it’s an interesting experiment to see just how much time tools such as … Continue reading →

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Oh, the Idiocy

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Robin

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of immense amounts of idiocy. If you haven’t been around the tubes for the past few days, here’s a recap: Someone posing as “malcor” (blog since removed) claimed to have hacked Glenn … Continue reading →

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Jackass of the Week

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Robin

I’m going to take a leaf out of the Book of Gruber. Mark Cuban is the Jackass of the Week. Ars Technica has everything I would say in response to this article so I’m not going to go over it … Continue reading →

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Improved Animated Scrolling

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Robin

A while back I posted about automatically scrolling between internal links with some jQuery magic (which in turn was based on a tutorial by Learning jQuery) but one problem with it was that there was no way for the user … Continue reading →

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Last.fm Targeted Ads

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Robin

Now that I’m browsing without Adblock, I’ve noticed the ads that Last.fm sprinkles on its pages, and I thought of something: What if the ads were targeted specifically for your music tastes? It probably wouldn’t be too hard — Last.fm … Continue reading →

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