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SiteAdvisor’s excellent analysis of webcrap continues. Signing-up for “free” computer games gets you bombarded with 15 spam emails a day.

The 3% “Federal Excise Tax” on your cellphone bill? It’s to help pay for the 1898 Spanish-American war.

Why do Sox fans sing “Sweet Caroline” during the middle of the 8th? Apparently, just because it’s a fun song.

I’ve been playing with SlimServer as a replacement for iTunes’s role as my listen-on-my-laptop-to-the-music-on-my-server tool, and it’s pretty damned impressive. Open-source, plenty of plugins, deals well with my collection, and hey! It’ll work if I choose to buy one of their delightfully-tempting $300 Squeezebox networked music players.

A really good summary of the best bits of Agile, XP, etc. plus some common sense. Turns a bit Perl-centric near the end, but that aside it’s an excellent read for software engineers.

Read this Cory rant about a proposed Firefox feature that would allow advertisers to track click throughs in an opt-outable manner, then count the number of undisclosed un-opt-outable click-through mechanisms in use by the horde of advertising links littering the page. I counted five (boingboing.net, clk.atdmt.com, adserver.fmpub.net, c2.edapebaf.com and click.adbrite.com)

Mac laptop “anti-theft” app. Interesting feature set, although I’m cynical about how many times the “thief” turns on the laptop and connects to the internet, rather than the poor sap who buys it from them on Craigslist.

GWBush as Infocom.

“Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States.”

I ♥ Zeldman.

Hooray! I’ve been looking for this article for years, but couldn’t remember its name. “I expect that this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians.”