Gmail-Lite is an interface around Gmail, which essentially filters out all the javascript and presents a bare-bones Gmail which will work on any browser (including Lynx, your phone, etc.)
I set up a local instance here for playing around: url censored.
Or you can install your own server: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/
Now all you need is a keyboard to type [...]

Did you know that Gaim supports IRC?
I’m excited about this because I just discovered meme.b9.com, a great utility site that supports storing and bookmarking specific chat conversations [from specific IRC channels]! Holy limping cats! This level of bookmarkable specificity is rare, and highly useful. These are the pieces that support, and advance, the web.
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SQL can be a pain. it’s a declarative language, which can be cumbersome to coders used to the procedural world of programming in the large. And unlike eLisp or Perl, it tends to lack builtin, contextual documentation. The hapless application builder is left with two options: doggedly deny that actually learning SQL has any real [...]

I live in a highly linked environment.
Links, quotations, and cross-referenced source code mean that I waste a lot of mental space on maps of how certain functions call other functions, or how source files include other source files, and in what order.
What if there were automated ways to visualize the links? Ways to create a [...]

wtF is up with no way to forward / manipulate a whole message thread at once???
This is now part of GMail.

This is a Galilean revelation, and quite lucid.
http://feedmelinks.com/56833
Required reading for anyone who considers themselves a serious ActionScript coder.

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“We’re waiting for CSS to save us!”
[ this semantic mess ensues: http://feedmelinks.com/31645 ]
…good luck.

For some reason, Flash loaders/pre-loaders have always given me fits. I decided to site down and write one from scratch. As I suspected, it turned out to much simpler than I expected.
http://jm3.net/toys/loader/
No, you don’t need the new MovieClipLoader* classes from Flash MX 2004 professional.
No, you don’t need to spray your content across ten frames, or [...]

On this, this chilly Michigan day, I share with you my list of hosting providers, for those good people out there of no account, or any of you who believe, in these uncertain and barbaric times, in the importance of a good host.
http://feedmelinks.com/f/4003