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Friday, 2nd March 2007

Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin (via) Neat WordPress plugin that forces a redirect to an item’s permalink if the URL has any extra crud in it.

# 12:49 am / disambiguated, plugins, urls, wordpress

Steampunk Star Wars (via) Beautiful illustrations of Star Wars re-imagined in a steampunk context.

# 9:38 am / illustrations, starwars, steampunk

[...] I'm a fan of the virtual machine future. We should treat our operating system like a roll of paper towels. If you get something on it you don't like, you ball it up and throw it away, and rip off a new, fresh one.

Jeff Atwood

# 10:21 am / jeff-atwood, virtualization

i’m Home. “Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organisations dedicated to social causes.” Microsoft are now getting their marketing ideas from spam e-mail forwards.

# 10:43 am / funny, im, microsoft, spam

Brian Cox at LIFT07. An accessible 20 minute explanation of particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider.

# 11:39 am / brian-cox, cern, large-hadron-collider

Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web. The base platform technology for RIAs is too important to be controlled or designed by any single party.

# 1:01 pm / adobe, flash, flex, rias, ted-leung

Safe JSON (via) Subtle but important point about JSON APIs: you shouldn’t use a callback or variable assignment for JSON incorporating private user data, especially if it’s at a predictable URL.

# 1:11 pm / json, security

Math for the Masses. WordPress.com now supports inline LaTeX. A great example of a feature that will turn a small subset of a user base in to life-long fans.

# 2:44 pm / latex, wordpresscom