If you’re tired of torrents and IRC, usenet is still IMO the best way to download. Get yourself a (US$10) subscription to Easynews.com and check out what you want to download at Newzbin.com and Vcdquality.com.
A little big about Par(ity) files and Easynews:
(00:14:35) Do you know what par(ity) files are?
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(00:15:18) Let me tell you a [...]

I can’t believe how fast these two spell checker projects are coming along.
Broken-Notebook spell checker http://www.broken-notebook.com/spell_checker/ Mimics the Gmail spell checker
Emil’s Rich Text Spell Checker http://me.eae.net/archive/2005/06/12/rich-text-spell-checker/ Mimics the Word on-the-fly spell checker

Cool, I finally got the WP feature working that accepts blog entries
through email.  Still doesn’t publish automatically though…
Update: Turns out the problem was my server sitting the Central timezone. WP doesn’t handle entries in the future too well
Btw, can you believe how great GD is? Case in point, the thumbnail [...]

Usage: var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest == ‘undefined’) {  XMLHttpRequest = function () {    var msxmls = ['MSXML3', 'MSXML2', 'Microsoft']    for (var i=0; i < msxmls.length; i++) {          try {            return new ActiveXObject(msxmls[i]+’.XMLHTTP’);         } catch (e) { }    }    throw new Error("No [...]

One of the things I think IIS does particularly well is automatically rerouting requests for something like “/blog” to “/blog/”. Apache (that configurable bitch) doesn’t have that behaviour by default. Now I have to go to all the trouble to change that in .htaccess somewhere! Bitching is blogs is fun [...]

Another great example of on-the-fly Ajax. This time, what you type in a field is "instantly" translated using a Google SOAP request I assume:
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/goto-example/translate

I gotta keep this thing vanilla or they’ll track me down!