Wired ran a feature in Issue 14.11 on designer Smita Narang, who applies vastu shastra to web pages. She reviewed the Slashdot redesign and slammed it, claiming it is incompatible with a number of vastu principles. I checked out her homepage for the book she is selling, and it is quite ugly. Maybe she needs to take some of her own advice.
Do MBA students cheat during their studies?
There is a $500,000 bounty for the California arsonist responsible for the fire that has claimed the lives of several brave firefighters. The fire is raging outside of Palm Springs due to gusty winds.
I tried to install Fox’s Full Throttle media player to watch the season premiere of The OC tonight and I couldn’t get it to work with any of my browsers. First, I tried to install it on my Mac, which didn’t work because the player can only run on Windows. So I booted up my PC to Windows Vista and tried to install on Internet Explorer. Surprisingly, the installer didn’t work with IE7, even when I set the zone to trusted with the option to install unsigned Active X controls. Finally, I tried Firefox, which didn’t work either because the player is only compatible up to Firefox 1.5.
I just got Mike Adam’s WordPress Ajax comment preview script installed and it works great. I’m using it to manage my comments now, which will show correctly processed Markdown scripted comments below the comment form. Thanks a bunch, Mike!
Vitaly has an excellent list of the 25 best free fonts available on the web.
Firefox 2.0 is now available for download.
The first four minutes of Borat are now up on YouTube. Looks like it will be pretty funny.
Pitchfork has an update on the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins album.
DoubleTwist, run by DVD Jon, is signing up with companies interested in selling protected digital music that is compatible with the iPod. The company also managed to reverse engineer FairPlay so that .m4p files purchased from the iTunes Store work with other portable devices.