Not A Dollarshort

Encryption is your friend.

Over at Perl.com, you can find the first installment of a three-part article on asymmetric cryptography that Ben co-authored with Vipul Ved Prakash.

Amazon Red Cross Fund.

The online Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund provided by Amazon.com has gone from $2,000 to $38,000 since I last looked. This, in hardly an hour span of time.

Update: As of 9:30, the fund has reached $132,000.

I only wish we didn't need disasters to demonstrate that, in general, people are good.

Another update: This is really quite amazing, since 5:30 am PST, the fund has gone from about $232,000 to $611,000. (as of 10:30 am pst) It's literally growing by the thousands with every mouse click, every second.

Netscape bug assistance.

Okay, I'm in need of a little Netscape bug assistance. Here's the problem:

I'm sizing a textarea with the CSS value width:500px.

In most browsers it works well. In Netscape 6, however, it chooses to ignore the wrap="virtual" and the text doesn't soft break.

This only occurs with the CSS styling. Other than switching back to cols="50", is there a workaround to this little treat?

And please, spare me the "who says you even have to support Netscape users?" sort of comments

Thanks.

Random plug.

Ben appreciates security. Everyone should.

Here's a link to STAMP, Ben's new form mailer.

STAMP is a Secure, Template-Aware Mail Processor. It's a form mailer that works similarly to FormMail. However, instead of relying upon hidden input fields to drive the email generation, it uses a server-side configuration file. This prevents spammers from using your form mailer as a mail gateway.

And it's better than you-know-who's.

It's a brand new world.

The ultimate Mac tip:

Command + Shift + Control 4 = Selection cursor to select an area to dump in Clipboard

More from Macinstein.

Link via Textism.

My already intense need for

My already intense need for justice is only more aggravated when I hear about people getting screwed by companies -- particularly companies whose buisness plan is nothing more than robbery and extortion.

Note to Scarface: "Piracy worthy" was not a call to action.

If you're going to copy a site, you could at least fight the urge to copy the text verbatim.

I guess it's just another one for the ol' pirated list.

This seems like a job for Matt's favorite dingbat.