News Flash: The General Public Is Stupid

...and that is the best advice any marketing, web design, or (GUI) programmer can ever have. We rant about this philosophy of web darwinism here a lot, and there's a very large reason why: the Web, like everything else in society, is not raising the intelligence bar. Instead, we are all plummeti

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Remotely Viewing A User’s Web History With CSS

Throughout the years, there have been several JavaScript/CSS/VBScript exploits in various browsers (and by "various", I mean mostly Internet Explorer) that allow a remote site to view a user's complete web history. There is a technique, however, for easily recording a user's browsing history wit

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Buying A Computer (the guide for cereal buyers)

The school year returns and its time to buy your kids a computer. A friendly warning from me to you is "Your knowledge of buying cereal does not qualify you to intelligently purchase a computer." But we will try to help you get the most for your money instead of being swindled out of your cash by

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