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The new design for adaptive path is an example of how to make standards-compliant (XHTML!) pages that actually work.

Mac OSX shortcut keys

Fredy is reading the new Donald Norman book – Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things. I’ve read one of Donald’s earlier books, and it was excellent, so I have high hopes for this one… all I have to do now is get a copy of it.

The down-side of body piercing – girl struck by lightning

McDonalds vs Christianity

Tiny Japanese man wins the July 4 hot-dog eating contest for the second year in a row (he managed 44.5 hot dogs – frankfurt and bun – in the alloted 12 minutes, down from his record last year of 50.5)

Do you really give beer to the homeless? Yes. We take 70% of all money donated to the website to purchase and deliver beer to the homeless members of the community who have expressed an interest in taking part of the program.

Italian police snared a two-metre crocodile in Rome’s Tiber river only to find the reptile… was a stuffed hunting trophy.

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle was a fluffy kind of movie that didn’t take itself too seriously. Bernie Mac had one or two good lines, but the rest of his time on-screen was painful. The special effects were good: the high point there is probably the opening “escape” sequence.

I had never heard of a tamper before last week’s coffee course. It’s the device you use when making espresso coffee to compact the ground coffee into the “handle”, to even out the extraction of water through the coffee.