Quatloos.com: "A public educational website covering a wide variety of financial scams and frauds, including wacky 'prime bank' frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment frauds, tax scams, 'Pure Trust' structures and more."
The largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line: "The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages." via DollarShort.
By popular demand, I've updated the Which * are you? page. Its funny, that page is by far the most popular on the site. Who would have thought?
Idea Share: "This page regularly offers ideas for books or stories or works in other media, from those who can't act upon them. In all cases they are offered in the hopes that these worthy projects will find their way to someone with the time and wherewithal to pursue them. " via Kottke.
Cracks Emerge as Three Gorges Reservoir Fills: "Some 80 cracks have been found in the enormous new Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, and an official said at a news conference today that the cracks could leak if they are not fixed, the Associated Press reports. The statement was made by one of the dam's designers, Pan Jiazheng, who is head of the construction committee inspection group." via Phil.
Loyd asked how to change the font in w.bloggar. In the current version, 3.01, its very easy. Under the File menu, choose Settings. At the bottom of the new window, you can change the font of the "Code Editor" to any installed font. Code Editor is just a fancy way of describing the big text entry field where you enter your weblog text.
I fixed the problem I was having with Mod_Rewrite. The Apache URL Rewriting Guide helped me to find the error of my ways. I should have written the code like this:
RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^dane/other/(.*) /dane/other-make/\?page=$1
Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have have systematically documented the striking dress codes of various social group. Wow!
States Skirt Internet Tax Ban: "The states' actions appear to violate the Internet Tax Freedom Act, a law first enacted in 1999 that specifically bans taxes on Internet access as well as any "discriminatory" taxes targeting the Internet."
