Monthly Archives: July 2003

Help search engines index your site 10

Tips and tricks to help search engines index your site more intelligently. Written for, but not specific to, TypePad Advanced accounts.

Our friend, the humble ‘title’ attribute 4

Earlier this evening, I got an e-mail from Pops asking me how I created the little tooltip-style comment text that appears when you hover over links in my posts. I figured that it was information worth posting here, on the off chance it might help someone else out.

BuyMusic ripping off artists 3

BuyMusic.com (which I will refer to as BM) got their “vast” music library of 300,000 plus songs from a company called the Orchard. So, without the express consent of what is likely lots of the Orchards catalog, BM has put it up for sale at the bargain price of $.79 a song.

Pet Peeves 17

Can we please please please stop using the target=’new’ attribute in links? I don’t want a new window. If I do want a new window, then I’ll right-click and use the ‘Open link in new window’ command. But I don’t want you deciding that I must want a new window, just because you don’t want me taking the oh-so-horrid step of actually (gasp) leaving your site!

The constitutionality of fuck, ‘fucker’ and ‘fucking fag’ 8

Faced with what he thought was a speech crime, Eric Vanatta, the teen’s public defender, drafted the below motion to dismiss the misdemeanor charge. The District Court document is an amusing and profane look at the world’s favorite four-letter word, from its origins in 1500 to today’s frequent use of the term by Eminem, Chris Rock, and Lenny Kravitz.