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Thursday, 14th December 2006

Curse launches with Django platform. Handles 500k visits/hour!

# 3:02 am / curse, django, scaling

Real-World Passwords. Random passwords phished from MySpace are surprisingly decent.

# 2:14 pm / bruce-schneier, myspace, passwords, phishing, security

XHTML is not going to replace HTML as the web's official markup language because it turns out that resilience is more useful than brittleness.

Douglas Crockford

# 5:40 pm / douglas-crockford, xhtml

Google’s own cornershop. Google groups has an undocumented API for generating rounded corners.

# 7:34 pm / api, google

Abusing Amazon images (via) Amazon have an amazingly flexible API for generating and modifying product images.

# 7:38 pm / amazon, api