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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 to link to the anchor.

The problem was that because the function has to return false in order to keep the browser from jumping straight through to the anchor and skipping the animation. So I added …

Here’s a (probably ever-growing) list of reasons why I hate MySpace:

1. User-defined CSS — it might be cool to have a bit of customization, but this takes it too far. Most of the profile pages are either hideous and unusable, or both.
2. Advertising — I don’t mind ads. But MySpace just plasters them everywhere. And they’re the annoying type — dating services and such.
3. UI — the user interface is horrendous. Sure, they’ve upgraded the …

Yess. Yess. Yess. Automattic (a la Matt Mullenweg) has acquired Gravatar, a “global avatar service,” which has been what can only be described as a crapshoot — sometimes Gravatars went down, or at best, were really slow, and for a while there the whole Gravatar site even disappeared.

Good things are already happening. From the post:

• We’re going to make all of the Premium features free, and refund anyone who bought them in the last …

Upon the insistence of a friend, I’ve installed the StumbleUpon Firefox extension and I must say I can’t believe I’ve missed out so long. When StumbleUpon first hit the news, I passed it on as a ridiculous fad, but now I’ve killed countless minutes clicking the “Stumble!” button.

I’ve already found a few gems, such as the winners of the “I Like My Dog” contest, hilarious images like this one and a [list of “almost every …