Smacrlbed wrod sprict

This “scrambled words are legible” phenomenon is taking off: Jamie Zawinski has cobbled together a perl script that’ll automate all your scrambling fun: scrmable.pl.

Seepd Renidag

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in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. - Link

Dead Parrot Society

Blog: The Dead Parrot Society
Because: It’s funny
Via: blandiose.org

Chong jailed, Cheech on the run

Comedian Tommy Chong has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet. Chong will be told in a few weeks where he’ll have to report to prison.
- MSNBC

Sell drugs, go to jail. That makes sense to me. But drug paraphernalia? That I [...]

Letters from the Ice Flow

While stomping through Apple’s website looking for a definitive answer to some issues involving QuickTime, I came across “Letters from the Ice Flow”:

These letters are dispatched from time to time from one of the more isolated corners of the globe, the frozen home of the QuickTime Engineering team. Each letter contains some useful tips on [...]

swfoo.com

Flash guru and friend Dave Yang has started a Flash blog: swfoo.com. if you use Flash, you should pay attention: Dave knows everything.

Ohm revisited

Cleaning up other people’s perl code is definitely the path to insanity.

Magnum Opus

In other news: Berke Breathed is back! Excellent.
(If you don’t know who Berke Breathed is, you got some reading to do).

Catching axe murderers in mid-flight

Will you be green, yellow, or red?

In the most aggressive — and, some say, invasive — step yet to protect air travelers, the federal government and the airlines will phase in a computer system next year to measure the risk posed by every passenger on every flight in the United States.

Whoa.

An estimated 1 to 2 [...]

Americans get some colour

The American greenback is going peach:

The introduction into circulation of the new bill, a makeover of a bill previously redesigned in 1998, is meant to thwart increasingly high-tech counterfeiters. And even though it was not meant to be a security measure, the most prominent new feature of the bills, the addition of subtle peach, green [...]

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