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Links for May 2004

Pink Numbers 31 May 2004
In response to the Purple-Numbers hash mark clutter of permalink anchors for every paragraph, Pilgrim hilariously one-ups Bray with links for every word.
Security Can’t Be Spun 31 May 2004
Once again, John Gruber writes a well-thought article on the problems with Apple’s PR surrounding recent Mac OS X security issues.
Sidesh0w Updated 28 May 2004
Ethan, on his Sidesh0w redesign and switch to WordPress, while he grabs your wallet and dates your sister.
CA Senate Tightens on Gmail 28 May 2004
Oh, please. Privacy is good, but Figueroa is over-reacting, and leading the Senate down the wrong path.
Andy Kaufman Effect 28 May 2004
Zeldman: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re not the dog you claim to be.”
AT&T Relaunches Top-Level Site 28 May 2004
AT&T (the example always cited for the trickery of ampersands in XHTML) launches new top-level site: CSS, valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, integrated Flash. The new work only appears to be at the top level.
New way to Clear Floats 24 May 2004
Holly and John document a clever means of clearing floats without using an extra element in the markup. Beware of some ugly JavaScript to make it work in IE5/Mac though.
Useit Makeover 19 May 2004
Jakob Nielsen’s Useit.com gets a makeover by the self-proclaimed Design Fab Five. A fun and entertaining read.
Andy Kaufman Returns? 19 May 2004
And with a Blogger blog and use of my Minima template. I’m skeptical as everyone else. But what else would you expect after being “dead” for 20 years?
Collective Deep Breath 15 May 2004
Jay Allen takes the time to fully explain what the “Developer” means in MT 3.0D, why this release is certainly not intended for everyone, the upsides to the new architecture, and why MT-Blacklist will take a little longer to make fully compatible with MT 3.0. Thanks Jay.
Choate on MT 3.0D 15 May 2004
Sound logic on MT’s licensing from Brad Choate, one of the biggest MT plugin contributors
The Incredibles 14 May 2004
Trailer for the new Disney/Pixar movie. Can’t wait.
Tables My Ass 14 May 2004
Patrick Griffiths responds to posts by Andy Budd and Dave Shea that stated tables for layout are sometimes ok.
New DWM 13 May 2004
Nick and team launch the new Digital Web Magazine design.
Trojan Horses/OS X 12 May 2004
Rob spells out the danger of today’s newly discovered trojan horse, and the potential exploits of malware like it in the future (for all operating systems)
Blog This 12 May 2004
Saw this the other day, and got so caught up in reading, I forgot to add a link to it. Jeffrey’s view of the Blogger project.
Blogger. Templates. Designed. 12 May 2004
Dan Rubin discusses the process behind his new Blogger template, Thisaway
Blakems Redesign 11 May 2004
Blake Scarbrough comes up with a nice, stylized redesign. Of particular note is the interesting use of Sliding Doors and masked images for the tabs.
Dave’s Self Promotion Day 10 May 2004
Dave Shea writes about his Snapshot Blogger template, upcoming events, and the new Bright Creative design
Working with Blogger 10 May 2004
Jeff Veen provides another side of the story on the Blogger redesign
Dan on TicTac 10 May 2004
Dan covers his new TicTac Blogger template
Introducing Scribe 10 May 2004
Todd discusses Scribe, his unique, nicely executed Blogger template
New Digs 9 May 2004
Ev tries out one of the new Blogger templates — but hurry, he’s changing them to show them off, so what may be muted greens and blues today, may be bright orange tomorrow…
Et tu, Brute? 6 May 2004
Andrei makes just and valid points, frustrated by the lack of substance in critiques of Greg Storey’s quick redesign exploration of the Presidential Daily Brief.
Navigation Matrix 4 May 2004
Didier documents a cool technique for overlapping, layered tabs that contain all states within one image.
What’s missing in IE? 3 May 2004
Andrei points to Scoble, Scoble responds. Provide Microsoft with specific requests of what you’d like to see added or fixed in IE.