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the program manager for visio, Mai-lan, has posted a couple of good pieces about creating good network diagrams with visio. complete with download-and-steal-able files.

david vignoni, aka icon king, has a really nice free icon set available for download. should pretty-up those network diagrams.

a nasty four year old bug in firefox is stopping some large corps from using it. ouch! sort out your priorities guys.

so i was half right all along - yellow smarties are dyed with tartrazine (E102) which comes from coal tar. red smarties are dyed with carmine/cochineal (E120), which comes from crushed beetles. awesome!

the newly launched google maps is probably the best dhtml app ever. stunning.

jc is blogging again on machine. a worthwhile daily read.

this came up on the b3ta admin list: as excellent base jumping video. maybe the most fun thing you can do without leaving the planet.

autrijus is implementing a featherweight perl6 in haskell. it's on cpan. i'm overly excited.

a while ago jimmy o'regan wrote a nice article for linux gazette about using flickr with my perl api module.

wulffmorgenthaler is a reasonably good comic. via the long-absent juff