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Superb php script that lists a directories image contents so you can quickly and easily build a Gallery.

Yet again Brad does the business with a port of a Wordpress plugin that filters comments from known servers that are open to abuse which is where most spam comes from.

The Croydon Guardian points out that the Council is not balancing its books still.

Fantastic image transition code at Brothercake.

Ohhh - how did I miss this? Online Scrabble programme from The Man in Blue. This means I can practice online and I may be able to finaly beat Paula.

Add an anti spam system to your blog. The more people who join in with the project the more effective it becomes and there are lots more bloggers than spammers.

Just spotted a great story on the Beeb "How the brain recognises a face" but unfortunatly the researchers used a morph between portaits to find out how we rocognise people. "An image which is 40% Marilyn and 60% Maggie will be seen as the "sexier" side of Margaret Thatcher, say the researchers". Is this some evil form of torture?

When are we in the UK going to get High Definition Television? The US and Japan and now rolling the equipment and programes out but not here. Major sporting events are already being shot in high definition but we get a low definition broadcast. I know that the US needs HDTV because thier picture quality is pants but why can't we have it as well?

Arvind has gathered all the sage advice on the top blogs about MT into one place - a great and very usefull idea and well executed.

I just popped over to 456 Berea Street and Roger has pondered on a subject that I have spent a while on as well - floating images in body text. He has come up with an elegant solution - which I immediatly put to use on my site. Brilliant! I wish I had thought of it!

"60 years ago a Kiev's area witnessed ones of the most severe battles of WW2. Covered with earth from explosions the humans, arms and ammunitions was left on a battlefields." This is a really interseting site put together by a Ukranian girl (couldn't find her name anywhere).
Via Bill Gibson

I want one of these!!! Not yet available in the UK although the dual band is now out in the US but Palm are saying soon for the Quad. My Palm Tungsten W has never been reliable so the writing on the wall! Come on Palm - get the Quad Band Treo 650 released asap!

Andrew Hume descibes how and when to use scalable Inman Flash Replacement to change text for images on your website. Very Usefull!

Jorge Velázquez has taken up Ben Hammersley's challenge and put together an artical on how to put together a Weather Podcast and he has built a script to help - and thats what we need - help!