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Cory Doctorow's new book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, is now available. Both in a dead tree version and as pixels; the latter is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Check it out, buy the dead tree version, read it online, glory in the freedom of information. I'll no doubt be reviewing this later.

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I just added Sub Judice to my blogroll, cause I'm a lawyer junkie. It's not so much a weblog as it is a dialogue: two lawyers, discussing issues of interest to them. They've been talking about the Grutter v. Bollinger case recently, which may well mark the end of affirmative action in college admissions.

I've also added Confessions of a Mozillan, which is written by Dave Hyatt, one of the main Safari developers. He's commenting on issues reported with Safari, and letting us know about fixes. This is very impressive interactivity.

And, while I'm pointing, I recommend reading TPB's latest.

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I'm sort of fooling around with a side project, with the intent of using Movable Type as a general content management system, and I came up with something that I thought was kind of clever. I wanted a list of offsite links on the front page, and I thought it might be nice to allow other blog authors to add links, but I didn't want to give full template modification access. Thought about it a while; came up with a solution.

I created a category named "Offsite Links" and added a bunch of entries in that category. Each entry had the name of the destination site as the title, and the URL for the site as the entry body.

Then I added the following MT template code to the front page template:

<MTEntries sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend" category="Offsite Links">
<a href="<$MTEntryBody convert_breaks="0"$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br/>
</MTEntries>

Boom. Quick and easy link list effect. Note that this would also be a way to maintain a blogroll if you didn't want to use blogrolling.com.