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We now have an option to opt-out of advertising cookies that track your behaviour:

• Google's opt out page
• Yahoo's

Dave Artz has a nice post about PNG8 and alpha transparency, my extensive comments on his article are awaiting moderation right now

Dave has a very cool blog btw, only a few posts but they are all really good, there's a video tutorial of AOL's Pagetest tool and a discussion on non-blocking javascripts, something I just talked about over at the YUI blog.

(Illustration by Dave)

Take the time to watch this.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/ (via Phil)

Consumption and energy and recycling and generally destroying our planet are all topics that are increasingly interesting to me.

Currently reading "Why we buy" to better understand the enemy within

http://www.ddj.com/dept/opensource/193500812

Microsoft has formed a technical partnership with Zend Technologies to optimize its open-source scripting language PHP to work better with Windows Information Server.

Further in the article there are some lines that can always make you smile, like ... "Yeah, that's ma boy" For example:

PHP is now the leading scripting language on the Web with 3.5 million users...

Facebook, Flickr, and Yahoo are all heavy PHP users...

Wikipedia too!

Seventy-five percent of Web 2.0 sites are powered by PHP...

coComment looks like a very promising service. Helping you keep track of all comments you post on all various blogs ... sweet!

Check it out:
http://www.cocomment.com/

My first test comment didn't work, but maybe it was just me, rushing things.