Chipping the web – simple, not secure

P(18): 114 is the 18th term in the Padovan sequence, with the initial conditions P(0) = P(1) = P(2) = 1.

More fun burning hot links (thanks, Shelley).

Speaking of burning…

Leopard has no taste for Java, which kills the Java community’s taste for Apple. Mikael Grev voices the Java reaction, in Java. The outcry falls on deaf Leopard ears (sorry, couldn’t resist).

Thoughts on the status of verbs in OOP.

Everything gets simpler in Ruby, even point-free hylomorphisms.

Doug posted a tip on checking email addresses in Javascript using regular expressions, and then Ade improved on it in a comment showcasing Prototype’s $$ function.

Mohan provides some possible strategies for thwarting domain realtors. It’s good to brainstorm on this, but I suspect that the devious would devise means for getting around most of these suggestions. For instance, forcing the purchaser to hold the domain for a longer period of time might be easily accomodated by offering the domains under a sort of “rent to own” scheme: you pay us, and we’ll point the domain to your site even though we technically still own it, and it becomes yours when the ownership transfer restriction period expires. Raising domain prices wouldn’t help much, because it’s the specific names that are in demand that have more value — higher base prices would cut into squatters’ profits, but wouldn’t eliminate it unless the prices were too high across the board.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin (thanks, Paul).

Thanks for including me on your blogroll, David!

Thanks for the link-love, Randy and Arjan!

Widget watch: BOHEA uses my tag cloud widget for WordPress.