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  • Grammar Girl here. Today’s topic is active voice versus passive voice. Here’s Brian from Iowa: “It drives me crazy when people write in passive voice. How can I teach people how to tell the difference between passive and active voice and st
  • My co-workers pointed out a nice effect on the Vox registration form. As you tab through each input field, some helper text appears in box out to the right. Try it out.
  • Control.Modal is a light weight, unobtrusive JavaScript library for creating modal windows and lightboxes using HTML that is already on the page, images, AJAX calls or iframes. It can be added to your existing code in one line, completely styled with CSS,
  • Rolling Stones – Jumping Jack Flash.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
  • Is there any blogger blogging about blogging 😉 that hasn’t posted a list of his favorite plugins yet? Well, since I’m now in it too, I might as well do it. But you won’t find a list of my favorite plugins here. I did much better! I compiled a true
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    links for 2007-03-28

  • GenoPal Online is an online tool for creating color palettes, with both a free and a pro version available. The free version features over 30 ready-made schemes and there is no download or registration required to use it. Using the sliders, eye dropper
  • Beatboxing Flute player Greg Patillo covers all the mario themes like nothing you’ve heard (unless you’ve been wandering through washington square park and heard him there)
  • Welcome to Force Unleashed. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an upcoming video game developed and published by LucasArts. The game will be released in November 2007, and will be released on the Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, and Nintendo DS.
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    links for 2007-03-27

  • 1168382483-116697181987097.b.jpg (JPEG Image, 480×640 pixels) – 3PO!! Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!!
  • Search Engine Optimization Seminar – In this special seminar you will learn: * How your Web site can generate more business for you * How understanding search technology can impact your business * Secrets of how SEO works – what your competition doesn’t w
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    links for 2007-03-24

  • Darth Vader Sucks! Whatever Good AWESOME! File: Darth Vader
  • The personal data that you provide when you register a domain name should be just that — personal. That’s why Network Solutions® is leading efforts in campaigning for stronger domain name privacy rules and creating tools to help you protect your person
  • New 300 Trailer, Dec 7th 2006. Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, “300” is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of … all » Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and
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    links for 2007-03-23

  • If you believe the likes of Jakob Neilsen and his supporters, nothing is more evil than pop-up windows. And in many ways, this is correct. Why? Well, we’ll list the reasons soon enough, but in a nutshell it’s because they are nearly always poorly implemen
  • All for Gmail: handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. Take this Gmail thingie to another level. Enjoy
  • Any use of this website, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the universe.
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  • chad vader,s life very funny
  • Mac Spoof – Gaming
  • It’s really strange to see how political the t-shirts on Bourbon Street have gotten. Richard argued that this was not really that political, but compared to “If you can read this, the bitch fell off,” I’d say it is.
  • Ahoy there! You’ve been eyeing your calendars. You’ve been counting the days. We told you it was coming, and now…it’s here! And I hope you people are happy, I just sat through two hours of Dancing With The Stars to bring you a report on this thing! (Joe
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    links for 2007-03-22

  • A blog about crazy and funny stuff discovered in the net..
  • Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today. It’s important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything th
  • Whenever I get a new cell phone, the first thing I do is change the background theme. It seems like such a small thing, but for whatever reason adding a beach or a dancing pig or something else makes me feel like it’s my own. We wanted to offer you a way
  • Spudgy falls asleep while he’s sitting up. He is a 10 year old Pure Bred Pomeranian and Blows Bubbles out his Nose. (trying to get that on video) He is not narcoleptic. He is in good health but can’t breath through his nose, therefore, he tries to sleep s
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch part four of its popular “Great To Be Nominated” series on Monday, April 23 with “Star Wars.” The 16-week series will once again showcase the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture that
  • Find great activities to do with your kids, like Disney’s Magic Artist, printable coloring pages, puzzles, games, and more!
  • Welcome to the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner. It’s a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC. Check for and remove viruses and spyware Improve your PC’s performance Get rid of junk on your hard disk Use the full service
  • Eternal September (also September that never ended, perpetual September, or endless September) is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993. The use of these expressions implies the belief that standards of
  • Does DRM drive even honest well-meaning people to piracy? Yes, of course it does.
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    links for 2007-03-21

  • Network Solutions Senior Vice President Stephanie Leffler paid a visit to MSNBC’s “Consultants Corner”, where she discussed how being found on search engines can be the difference between success and failure for small businesses. Check out her tips for “l
  • Every once in a while we try to identify what’s hot in one of our categories and this time we picked CSS since it’s becoming more popular with each day that goes by. More and more web designers become interested in learning every trick. A good way to do i
  • This has been the standard, the full time pursuit of Phil Driscoll and Mighty Horn Ministries for 20 years – one score, an entire generation. Over the last two decades the reverberations of Phil′s trumpet have echoed throughout America and across the bo
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    links for 2007-03-20

  • 6209 LEO – BELLEVILLE, IL 62223 – Single Family Home – $84,900 – Property Tax: $1,743 – 2 Bedroom(s) – 1 Bath(s) – 1000 Square Feet – MLS Number: 2702572 – Very well maintained home, newer windows in most of house, hardwood flooring except bathroom which
  • Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountab
  • After exchanging a few emails with Peter Harkins, who runs NearbyGamers, I created a new page called Ways to Find RPG Players. It collects a range of player-finding tools and resources in one spot, with NearbyGamers front and center. This is an evergreen
  • Physics, computation, philosophy
  • High Quality Templates For Blogger > New Templates Gallery
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    links for 2007-03-18

  • PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Joe Hill knew it was only a matter of time before one of the publishing industry’s hottest little secrets became common knowledge. He just wished he could have kept it under wraps a bit longer. But when Hill’s fantasy-tinged thriller, “
  • AKA, “Secrets of the patented JM3 Gasbag Model™” – a getting-started list to make sense of CSS.
  • Part 2 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs. If you missed part 1 you can see it here.
  • Eric Clapton ~ Cocaine
  • Disney Soundtracks – Mulan – I’ll Make A Man Out Of You.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
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    links for 2007-03-17

  • On March 28 [2007] Two Powerful Forces Will Unite
  • This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows a mail collection box wrapped in a special covering to look like R2D2 from the ‘Star Wars’ movies. The Postal Service and Lucasfilm Ltd. will cover boxes in some 200 cities nationwide to
  • Inspiring Worship in a Visual Generation
  • Disney reuses its animation but this is hard to spot unless pictures are put side by side for comparison. Here are pairs of pictures to be spotted for animation reuse. 24 more pics after the jump.
  • Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details. Most fonts are freeware and as such free to use for webmasters and hobbyists. If you wish to
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  • A FAQ on various IRC channels I help out on is How do I vertically center my stuff inside this area? This question is often followed by I’m using vertical-align:middle but it’s not working!
  • D&D Adventures – Dungeon Master Resources – Dungeon Master Tools
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