October, 17, 2001 archives

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.)