As if my hot and spikey hatred of Verisign wasn’t hot and spikey enough…. As of Monday morning, Sept 15th, Verisign has apparently taken it upon themselves to add a wildcard A record to the TLD zones for .com and .net. The IP is 64.94.110.11, which resolves to sitefinder.verisign.com. That’s right, this means all mistyped domain names go directly to a page on one of Verisign’s servers. Bastards. They don’t get another penny from me or anyone I can convince to do the same.

Okay, here’s an example of a small Flash app that was useful, and I actually had to right click to make sure it was Flash. Getting closer.

If Eolas ends up winning in spite of Microsoft’s appeals, where does it leave Flash? If an intrusive dialog box or separate players are required in order to satisfy the patent holder, even the most ardent of Flash fans are going to be in an awkward position. As If Eolas ends up winning in spite of Microsoft’s appeals, where does it leave Flash? If an intrusive dialog box or separate players are required in order to satisfy the patent holder, even the most ardent of Flash fans are going to be in an awkward position.

This was the second time I’ve had to do this recently. Both times caused by road shrapnel.

Google has announced that they will be rolling the features of Blogger Pro into the standard Blogger product, making the service free again for everyone. Here’s the c|net article Good, now maybe T.M. will finally have an RSS feed so I can put him in my aggregator where he belongs.

Uh oh, did we get on the wrong design bus? actionscript.com seems to think so. Roughly a standard 800×600 pagewidth across, and varying in height, the Messaging Area is shaping up to be the new Most Hated Flash Thing on the planet.

After reading and reviewing Tim Berners-Lee’s book, Weaving the Web, CSS guru Tantek Çelik picks out some memorable quotes, comments on those quotes, and in doing so creates a few of his own. it is usually better to at least consider current solutions to a problem before attempting something new (simply out of the principle of laziness, also known as efficiency). And further (which may need to be read twice)…

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Every blog and it’s brother is posting about the revelation regarding IKEA product names. Funny, I never gave it a thought before, and don’t now. Our servers are named for cartoon characters, if anyone’s interested.

Looking for a name and tagline for your shiny new design/interactive/media firm? Give New Media Company Generator a whack at it.

Helped along by the CSS-Discuss mailing list, the css-discuss wiki has a ton of good information on CSS usage, links and such. Oh, and you may have caught the fact that it’s a wiki, which is exactly the type of thing that works for sites like that.

Doug at Stopdesign does a great job of explaining absolute and relative positioning.