Bytes in the Margin

Particularly in emails? I'm curious, and while I'm a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can't find any evidence to support my hunch. If you're sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them if ...

If you missed it, today the new FCC Chairman made a significant announcement regarding "Preserving a Free and Open Internet."  Hint, here's one way to start - don't lock everything up in a PDF, but thats not the point.  The stated purpose of the policy is

Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we're pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6 isn't ...

Cuil is a new search engine on the block, trying to displace Google from the top of the search heap.  They  say their index is larger than Google's, as if size is THAT important, and was launched by former Google employees.

I've been using the Firefox 3 betas for a few months, and now actual release candidates are coming out of Mozilla HQ. I made the switch because Firefox 2 was causing the load on my work PC to spike randomly , leaving the machine useless for a stretches lasting seconds. The performance tweaks for memory usage ...