Archive for March 2003

As usual, there are lots of interesting web design stories over at Zeldman. Two that caught my eye:

One solution to the old problem of preventing spambots harvesting email addresses from web pages has been to encode the address using javascript or character entities. Aside from the accessibility problems associated with relying on javascript, it’s quite [...]

I’m currently watching the first ever episode of Magnum. It’s got all the classic ingredients to pass the Troy Magnum Test, including ‘Nam flashbacks galore featuring Thomas, Rick and T.C. bonding in the jungle (all clearly filmed in someone’s back garden) and lots of “chopper” action. Who says America’s all bad?

Today’s count of government ministers & MPs showing moral backbone and decency:

Robin Cook
John Denham
Lord Hunt
Anne Campbell

Spineless careerist of the day:

Claire Short

Today’s count of government ministers showing an ounce of moral backbone and decency:

Robin Cook

I’ve just faxed my MP, Tessa Jowell, asking her to do the right thing and resign. If you’d like to express your feelings to you MP, Fax Your MP allows you to do so, free of charge. Go on, it only takes [...]

“The United States finds the present Iranian regime’s intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims.”

The above quote comes from a 1984 US condemnation of chemical weapons [...]

I watched a late-night political discussion show on BBC1 last Thursday, and obviously it was dominated by the US-Iraq insanity. All the usual, depressing, blah, blah, blah. Then suddenly up popped Terry Jones — ex-Monty Python — with a brilliant and hilarious short film about his neighbours. I’ve just found that a transcript is also [...]

Now there’s a photo of a ‘freedom fries’ moron. To inject some balance and show that I’m not anti-US, just anti-moron, here’s a photo of a brave American, Rachel Corey. Rachel, a 23-years-old student from Washington, was in the Gaza Strip protesting against the demolition of Palestinians’ homes by the IDF. Tragically, she was killed [...]

These found their way to my inbox, and I thought they were funny enough to post here:

(I particularly like the first one)

Can you believe the mentality of some Americans?

This is quite a useful free browser security test. Takes about 5 minutes.

According to Your Not Me [sic], I share my name with 1441 other adults in the UK:
You are like a rare bird, lost and pecking at nuts.

The info is taken from the 2000 electoral role. There are 1046833 Davids on the list, which makes me horribly common, so I may have to change my first [...]

A leaked document details how the US is monitoring the home and office calls of UN delegates. I’m trying to avoid linkning to the Observer at the moment because of the paper’s pro-war stance, but they did break the story (well, I say break, but I haven’t seen this serious story picked up anywhere else [...]

Worthington Cup Final: Liverpool 2 Man Utd 0… yesssss!!! It’s always great to see Liverpool beating Man U, but when we’ve been having such a nightmare season, and the League Cup’s up for grabs, it’s particularly sweet. Credit must go to Dudek, who pulled off some crucial saves. Liverpool’s 7th League Cup! Let’s just hope [...]