Links for September 19 and 20, 2006

The IE7 User-Agent String

Must-have information for user-agent string parsing and content serving. IE7 still supports conditional comments, which you can use to serve a different style sheet to older versions of Internet Explorer.

Boing Boing Boing

BoingBoing’s new Odeo-powered podcast.

Pew Internet Project Bloggers Report – July 2006 [PDF]

I missed this the first time, but it’s still worth a read. Suprising stat? Sixty percent of [American] bloggers are white, 11% are African American, 19% are English-speaking Hispanic and 10% identify as some other race.

On personal content management

Or why structured blogging and microformats are good things.

Jealous ex used MySpace to plot hit: police

The dangers of putting all of your business online.

Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World)

I disagree slightly with the premise. I think Paris is famous because she’s was an heiress — a society girl — in a city where society is still (somewhat) important: New York. Therefore she had the social capital to become famous. Now had she been Mercedes from the Bronx …? But the essence of the post is spot-fucking-on: be a king or queen maker.

Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords

The results of an analysis of passwords and e-mail addresses captured during a phishing scam.

Bangkok’s Metblog

On the ground coverage of today’s possible Tuesday’s coup.

Opera Is Easily The Best Browser Available

Yes, but Firefox has lovely extensions. I tried Opera. I indeed love Opera show. There are just too many damn keystrokes to re-learn. I’ve got enough mental clutter.

Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content

That’s a pretty self explanatory title, no? Also read a related document about language codes.