oprime2001 writes:  

DieNadel writes in a Slashdot article, "The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog, or download from the Internet without fully identifying oneself first. Privacy groups and Internet providers are very concerned, and are trying to lobby against the bill, but it seems they won't have much success."  Read More...

southern writes:  

Some good online tools for the... ah... discerning webmaster/webmistress.
We picked out the best scripts you should choose to build your site.(tm)

Our Online Tools
» Link Exchange
» Check your Section 508 Standards
» Regular Expression tester
» Link-popularity checker
» Search Engine Submission
» Chmod calculator
» IMAP reader
» Search

External Online Tools
Display and format our RSS feeds on your site: Cut and Paste JavaScript, FeedDigest.com
Validate: validators, Xforms validator, CSS Translator, semantic-extractor
Image: MyImager.com (resize), kalsey Buttonmaker, type converter, Logo Generator
PHP: PhpObjectGenerator.com
Markup: Accessify.com
Misc: UITest.com, FaganFinder.com, FOAF-a-matic, freesql.org, Email encoder

I don't have the time or inclination to provide links to all the listed tools but they're here: Programmabilities

southern writes:  

A fast on the fly CSS generator for the discerning webmaster.

CSS Maker

nb1 writes:  

In recent search engine comparison tests, Google consistently puts relevant search results low in page rankings, hiding them on page 3 or 4 of the results, while all the other search engines correctly put those same results on page 1. There are a lot of unhappy webmasters out there.

Webmaster are being told that they need to tweak their web sites to conform to Google's requirements (and we can only guess what those might be). Google wants to put the burden and the blame on the webmasters. But, since none of the other search engines has a problem finding our web sites, ... it is clearly not our problem. Only Google has problems finding web sites. So, it is Google's problem. It is simply not finding many perfectly legitimate web sites, ... or it is ranking them so low that they might as well be invisible. There's no sign that Google is trying to change that situation for the better.

Full Story

nb1 writes:  

Fans of the open-source browser have the chance to "immortalize" their names in Firefox 2, the Mozilla Foundation says. To commemorate the three-year anniversary of the creation of the Mozilla Foundation on July 15, the open-source group announced that if a Firefox user persuades a friend to download the browser, both the user and the friend's names will be added to the source code of the next version of the browser, Firefox 2.0.

"Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before Sept. 15, you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2,"
Become a Friend of Firefox

southern writes:  

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. You can Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page, Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques, Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings, View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys, Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags, Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links,...  Read More...