Got an agenda?

Wed, 19 Jan 2005

Ian Hixie has a humorous take on research about the effects of pornography on psychological health, but actually the article is fairly serious and its subject potentially disturbing. I'm not talking about pornography (though I'm not a fan); I'm referring to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) trying to impose his conservative Christian agenda on the Internet. [...]

Fun with formmail

Wed, 19 Jan 2005

A dude named Scott Wiersdorf has written a script to harrass formmail trollers when they hit his site. It's a fun idea, but I think it actually would cause me more harm than good. That's my bandwidth they're using! Still, it makes me wonder if there's something I could do to get back at referrer [...]

Mandate? Ha!

Wed, 19 Jan 2005

I'm listening to To the Point right now on KUOW, and Adam Clymer (Political Director of the National Annenberg Election Survey of the University of Pennsylvania and former chief Washington correspondent and political reporter for the New York Times) just said that only 23% of people who voted for Bush think that his reelection equates [...]

Nofollow

Wed, 19 Jan 2005

Somebody at Google had a great idea that I didn't even think about: marking links that shouldn't be considered when calculating PageRank. Actually I shouldn't be surprised that they thought of it; after all, PageRank is their crown jewel. The magic is simple: add the attribute/value pair rel="nofollow" to any link. This means I can [...]