dillo is a very cool little browser written using gtk+. it makes me wonder how difficult it really is to write a standards-compliant html rendering engine. (unfortunately, dillo doesn't support css. but it is amazingly fast and the html rendering seems pretty solid.)

i really like the look of <div>'s that have a lightly colored background with a similarly colored thin dark border. they work really well on a white background, but the work elsewhere, too.

sock monkey, a flash movie, based on the comic of the same name. (via boingboing.)

the gaping security holes in phpnuke and postnuke cease to amaze me. these things are the slash 1.x (or bugzilla) of the php world -- everyone loves them, but they are pretty dismal examples of programming.

aaron mcgruder (creator of the comic strip boondocks) rocks.

apple should buy tivo. and of course, sony should have bought apple a long time ago.

this story seems to surface every year or so: missile silos for sale! i still want one.

the notion of buying thinking putty in bulk crosses that thin line from madness to genius. or it does something involving stretching that line which would be a good putty joke. just $20/pound. and of course, absurd things to do with mass quantities of putty abound.

this swan song from the shutting-down inside.com is hilarious in parts. "the magazine went through editors and writers faster than a sugar-starved 10-year old goes through candy bars."

looks like taxpayers are going to have the honor of funding the insurance industry. i'm sure that has nothing to do with the industry's extensive donations to various lawmakers.

there's nothing like an online personality test to pass the time. apparently i fall into the same categorization as socrates, albert einstein, and mary kate and ashley olsen. and to answer this question, i like tagalongs. (and of course, this whole meyers-briggs type indicator holds about as much water as astrological signs.)

send in the gurkhas!

the quotes in this article about wcco's new general manager by don shelby are great: "The television business in this country is completely out of control. If the public were to ever see the amount of money being taken out of these cities and stations, they'd be amazed." a profit margin of forty percent is amazing. the government should be collecting license fees for the television broadcast spectrum.

the california legislature passed two laws designed to curb telemarketing calls, and gov. davis actually signed them. it's too bad the do-not-call list doesn't kick in until 2003.

dan bricklin writes quite eloquently about how copy protection robs the future, a variation on the theme of data being lost due to it being stored on obsolete media formats (like magnetic tape). but if the entertainment industry has its way, this will be the law, thanks to senator fritz hollings, bought and paid for by news corp., aoltimewarner, disney, and cbs. (and, of course, microsoft will be laughing all the way around the monopoly board.)