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…and neither one of the Wright Brothers had a pilot’s license… How f’ing cool must it have been to be one of the five folks who got to see this. I’ll never forget the first time I was at the Air&Space in Washington...

It’s been fun to watch Duncan make this thing “glow”. I also like the subtle plug for Duncan’s latest book as well… The latest 'issue' of my Coding 4 Fun column has been published to MSDN; Duncan Mackenzie describes how...

Well this is cool stuff indeed! Carl cranks up the pipe and moves the backend to a world-class system, all in the same week. Nice work, Carl! .NET Rocks! is finally a data-driven ASP.NET site! http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/ Thanks to franklins...

Read this. Big brain on the move. eP2P – here we come. http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html

Dork to VS salesperson ( never once making eye contact with her ): Um, hi, yeah. I’m trying to get something for my girlfriend. You’re about her size. Could you try this on, and let me know what you think? This has * never once * worked for...

I love their little screams when you shake the thing …B-)

I’m sure we’re working on a response, and in the mean time, careful where you click – this one’s a nasty bugger… Simon Willison: Nasty new IE vulnerability -- wow this seems particularly horrific. I just did the test and...

Once again, Ray uses elegance to craft a solution to a crufty issue – Ebay for ShoePhones… I’ve got a Moto v70 that’s gathering dust because I think AT&T sucks rocks… A lazyweb request after reading this : Someone should...

This is a cool idea, and it would be fun to see just how far the Lego folks would let you go with this… Send in a pic of a kid holding way too many guns, a picture of Lego characters in family-unfriendly poses, some “explicit” art scanned...

Considering how many folks use FxCop, and how much we reference it, this should be a cool episode to watch… A new MSDN TV on FxCop has posted: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20031204FxCopMM/manifest.xml Code Correctness...

This is going to make for some interesting SPAM… In other Outlook news, Microsoft released a video add-on to version 2003 yesterday. Apparently Microsoft released the software yesterday and updated it tomorrow; the document says that a new, updated...

Just download this file … Thanks Carl…

This is so incredibly cool, and IMHO, does a lot more than a fly-by on Thanksgiving. There’s tons of different ways you can reach into this community and show your support. I still hear from troops who got to spend time at my folks’ house...

Very cool, very sexy online mag. I really like the simplistic UI of the albums. The popular online photo magazine 28mm.org has returned with its 11th issue. The work of 10 different photographers is featured this month. On Display: - Home grown portraits...

(updated) I recently started an interesting project, after realizing I’ve lost touch with the competition lately. I set up a site on 1and1.com , created a new domain, and began setting up a new personal site. The catch – I’m only using...

I recently started an interesting project, after realizing I’ve lost touch with the competition lately. I set up a site on 1and1.com, created a new domain, and began setting up a new personal site. The catch – I’m only using products...