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Free Online Cliffnotes

CliffsNotes has announced that they’ve got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that’s free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com. Free Cliffnotes sounds like a fantastic resource. I wonder if now searching for literary titles and terms ...

Website offers Caller I.D. falsification

Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller I.D. to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller I.D. spoofing to the business world, beginning with collection agencies and private investigators. Slated for launch next week, Star38.com would ...

Blogger Replaces Adsense with Search Box

In a sign that Google’s contextual ads might not be nearly as useful to marketers as its search advertising, the company removed contextual placements from the tops of pages served by its free blogging tool Blogger. In the ads’ place is now a Google search box designed to increase search traffic. The contextual ads ran ...

$1bn to build unmanned fighter

A US defence contractor has received more than $1bn in funding to build a prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military. Northrop Grumman will build at least three full-scale flight prototypes for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) over five years The contract win will allow Northrop to continue work on its ...

[css-d] CSS signatures

Hey all, Starting this morning, I modified meyerweb.com to have the following on every page[1]: Why? To allow anyone who wants to restyle my site to do so simply by adding the appropriate rules to a user stylesheet. By using descendant selectors starting with the site ID, the styles will apply only to pages on ...