smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

"With all due respect to you, friends, fucking stop it. Seriously, stop supporting these shysters that advertise by generating fake links and popovers on your content." — heartily agree, it’s little more than a weak ploy to install spam, masquerading as content.

"The booklet is entitled “Talking with your kids about drugsâ€?. You know, I still have nightmares about when my mother talked with me about periods." — Kath documents the utter joy of reading the latest Australian Government drug related how-to guide.

"Web designers depend on ten or so universally available fonts for their designs, and are reduced in large part to using Verdana and Arial over and over again." — a fantastic article on type management through CSS, using @font-face and hosted typefaces.

"All that’s changed, because searching this site is now powered by the brute, irrepressible and undeniable force of Google." — after noticing how useful this was, I have done the same thing here, results are retrieved in very quick order indeed, do give it a spin.

"You just flip the large toggle switch to ‘on’, pull the small trigger and off you go at a rate of 6ft/s. The original unit moved at 10ft/s, but it was almost too jarring." — hack-a-day write up on their field test of the brutal-looking rope ascender.

".. zoom vs prime lenses. A few questions which are commonly asked are which is best, which should I use, which is the most affordable, and which will give me the best image quality?" — Glenn covers advantages of each, in a concise, well written guide.

“.. 2.3 introduces our new taxonomy schema. This new schema replaces the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables with three new tables that are more flexible.” — core db changes will impact a large number of plugins, increasing the upgrade gulf between versions as a result.

"NetBIOS Hacking is the art of hacking into someone else’s computer through your computer. It is a way for a LAN or WAN to share folders, files, drives, and printers." — great, except NetBIOS is not typically routed (by default) as such this hack has limited scope.

".. if WGA identifies your system as suspect, it also disables many features of Vista, including the souped up Aero interface, leaving you with little more than Internet Explorer.." — illustrates (beautifully?) why using WGA to control Vista functionality is just plain wrong.