Ad networks have lately been the largest vector for remote exploits. Some very ordinary and mainstream websites have been using ad networks that offer up images/flash with embedded exploits. I will block all ad networks due to this. You want to provide ads? Download the ads locally, vet and display them from your own server like we used to do in the good ol' days of the web. Then I can't block them.

Using an ad network as a webmaster is laziness and immoral.

A sign at a nearby farm read "cheese making beef eggs". I think it used to have dots/dividers between some of the words, but they'd faded. My wife saw it and said, "What are beef eggs? And how do you make cheese with them?"

I did the same thing as a child with coffee cake. The thing of it is, it took years before someone bothered to correct me and let me know there's no actual coffee in it. What a waste of a bunch of dessert.

Would they make Ren Hoeck envious?

Give the character a stroke and they can cobble clips together with an explanation of why they sound weird.

Not without Shearer.

The new default viewing method for the un-logged-in is helping to grow such beliefs. I've noticed that if I'm not logged in, it's impossible to view comments modded down to -1, even if I set the view slide-bar to show that level. For the accountless masses, it's like the comments are removed.

I realize this analysis is about "popular" music, so this may not entirely fit. But last year I listened to one of those Great Courses sets on "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" and really changed what I've been listening to, which now includes quite a bit of concert music (baroque, classical, etc.) that I never really appreciated before. Am I an outlier that I'm picking up something new just as I turn 40, or does this not count because it's not pop music, and old fogies are supposed to drift into listening to this ancient stuff anyway?

I'd say I've also picked up a lot of new material recently because of Pandora, but I'll admit most of that is older music, where it's a genre/style I liked, but I somehow missed some of the artists from that era who are similar to ones I already liked.

The selection of index.html for URLs ending in "/" is handled server-side (that's how we can have index.php index.cfm, index.pl and so on).

Really, what was needed was for display-size to become a standardized request header so that the server can select a default based on the display size.

If the grapledites were so smart, they would have chosen a better example. Grapes are meant to be eaten; it's part of the reproductive cycle of the grape vine.
Not the momma!

Especially when there's a perfectly cromulent form that swishes out from the side to let you edit any other bookmark when you "check" that tile.

I thought Spark worked from within Hadoop. Is that like using emacs to run vi?

Who cares about buying 51% of the stock when you can hire 100% of the employees away.