I don’t generally use IE, but I opened it for some reason, oh to do go to a microsoft site and this is what it looked like after I installed windows, Google Pack, Yahoo Messenger, and Windows Messenger Live:

Stop the presses! I just noticed that in the new , a very nice (yet buggy) AJAX email client, if you click the Subject: button in the address header you get a random subject! I was so surprised by this discovery I decided to spam Share Wonders with it. Check out some of the random subjects it generates:

• My brain is not large enough to destroy the entire world when unfolded.
• Sorry I missed you. Stand still next time.
• RE: four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
• You ATE the grand panjandrum’s booties?
• You can fight or you can surf. Now what’s it gonna be?
• Pressing business at the dry cleaners
• O Mighty Isis!
• It’s not you, it’s me. I don’t like you.
• the development of a nuclear powered egg
• As a youth I used to weep in butcher shops.
• You mush read this!
• Bonsai Kitten

I was just going to send an email to my professor, and I’m tempted to use a random subject, let me tell you! I wonder what he would think.

If at any time you were wondering what Yahoo! RSS feeds are available just go to their Big List of Yahoo! RSS Feeds. They’ve got them all there.

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The Yahoo! User Interface Blog has written a fantastic explanation (and very technical, too) of how browsers as a GUI platform resemble early desktop development. Creating rich desktop-like applications through a browser is facing similar challenges that desktop applications faced over a decade ago. They’ve taken a concept written by Alan Cooper called the the ‘GUI ecosystem’ for desktops and applied it to JavaScript development for browsers. The concept structures various levels of user interface into a hierarchical pyramid based on complexity. The benefit of this is by modeling code into ‘tool-kits’ keeping the ‘GUI ecosystem’ in mind as Yahoo! has done with its User Interface Library you can develop exceptional user-interface widgets for your web site.

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