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Entries from January 2003

Safari

January 8th, 2003 · No Comments

It’ll be interesting to see how successful Apple is with this new browser. The usage statistics are a bit skewed in our office, but we’re sending in a lot of bug reports. Detailed changelog from KHTML-SafariGood listing of primarily CSS…

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Tags: Web · Work

Up to $20 back from the Music Industry

January 7th, 2003 · 5 Comments

CD MAP Settlement “You are a member of the Settlement Group if you are a person (or entity) in the United States or its Territories and Possessions who purchased prerecorded Music Products, consisting of compact discs, cassettes and vinyl albums,…

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Tags: Life

iPay

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

Apple To Charge for Some iApps iPhoto alone’s worth $50, but this will get more people upset after the costly Jaguar upgrade. Not upset enough to use something else, though… [via News.com]…

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Tags: Web

GeoURL

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

Another great idea, adding your geographic coordinates to your blog… Kind of the opposite of the also neat BlogMapper, which lets you add blog entries to locations. [via Jon Udell]…

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Tags: Web

High Tech High Turnout

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

“High Tech High Turnout The winning candidate in last week’s South Korean presidential election had little need for mass rallies or traditional campaign tactics.” And I thought that 2000 election’s vote swapping was cool… [via Smart Mobs]…

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Tags: Life · Politics

Hi-Tech Charter Schools in Philadelphia

January 3rd, 2003 · 2 Comments

Computer-savvy school is motivating its students “At the end of the first academic year in June, median student reading scores on standardized tests had risen by two grade levels and math scores were up nearly two and a half.” ……

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Tags: Life

There’s no such thing a bad publicity…

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked “The flaws that people are exploiting to access their site are elementary security issues and there’s no excuse for an organization that purports to understand the dark side of the Internet to leave such gaping…

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Tags: Web

DNAlien

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

Raelian Baby DNA Testing “Appearing on CNN’s “Crossfire,” Rael said he had spoken with Boisselier and told her: ‘If there is any risk that this baby is taken away from the family, it is better to lose your credibility, don’t…

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Tags: Life

Oblivio

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

Tape “The moment it happened, once I realized it happened, I just wanted to rewind the tape. That’s all I could…” [via Oblivio]…

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Tags: Life

RSS Reader as NNTP

January 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

nntp//rss “Bridging the worlds of NNTP clients and RSS feeds, nntp//rss is an application that will enable you to use your existing favorite NNTP newsreader to read your information channels.” This is pretty slick. I’ve been really getting into RSS…

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Tags: Web