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when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL’s system, however, doesn’t read past the first eight characters.

(tags: AOL security stupidity)

Bill Gates is a bully

(tags: microsoft)

the main person you’re writing comments for is yourself, six months in the future

(tags: programming tips)

Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons.

(tags: google people technology geek)

Scoble describes common RSS mistakes and how to improve RSS feeds

(tags: rss)

Absolute Software’s official company blog.

(tags: security blog absolute_software)

The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?

(tags: design photoshop tutorial)

Make your WordPress site accessible on a mobile phone with this plugin. Now your posts, pages, archives and comments can be viewed on a mobile device.

(tags: wordpress)

The first piece of unsolicited bulk e-mail (what will come to be known as spam) is written. When it’s sent two days later, more than 400 people with an Arpanet address receive a promotional message sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for DEC.

(tags: spam)

I love her music. She combines vocal technique and lyrics reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Tracy Chapman with hot Senegalese rhythms.

(tags: music)

The Cathena CX is currently available with a choice of Windows XP (Home or Pro) or Windows XP Embedded, and is priced from $799 (depending on options).

(tags: linux)

A very nice tool for building custom WordPress themes

(tags: blog css design wordpress themes)

In a new interview with the OpenBusiness project, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth explains the Ubuntu business-model. He gives away a free, high-quality version of Linux but makes money from the “ecosystem” of services surrounding Ubuntu.

(tags: linux opensource ubuntu business)

Brent Simmons’ tips for working with large Cocoa applications

(tags: cocoa programming)

It turns out one of the most popular things to do with a Nintendo Wii isn’t playing video games. It’s creating little avatars that you can use in various games that are designed to look like you. They’re called Miis, and the fun isn’t confined to the Wii.

(tags: wii)

Tutorial for making your own lolcats catpions

(tags: lolcats funny)

VMware Converter quickly converts Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms.

(tags: vmware virtualization tools windows)

The jigsaw method is a group learning process that requires each member’s effort to work on a project; each student is a piece to the finished puzzle. The teacher divides a classroom into diverse groups of five to six students.

(tags: education solutions)

Anil Dash overanalyzes lolcats.

(tags: cats funny)

Naomi Wolf wrote an essay about the ten steps a corrupt government takes to create a fascist state, and provides examples of what the Bush administration is doing to fulfill the requirements of each step.

(tags: bush politics)