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Excerpt: Sure, it might get you the wrong type of attention, or people might suspect you wear a tin foil hat to receive better reception, but this is one of the most artful pieces of link bait I've seen:

"The 'socialist' label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots."

"J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans …

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Excerpt: Bradley Spencer is holding a contest where the best analogy wins a free copy of my book. I smell some link bait. Well, at least it worked on me

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Excerpt: Everyone is selling SSL certificates. Really? Not really.

It turns out that the majority of quality SSL certificates are actually dispensed from the same company in some shape or form — VeriSign. VeriSign currently owns at least Thawte, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL. In other words, they own all but one of the "older-than-dirt" high-ubiquity certificate authorities, GlobalSign. Here's the lowdown:

Verisign proper has the oldest root certificate, created in January 1996. It is the most…

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Excerpt: We're currently looking for clients in the following realms:

Custom Application Development
1. Custom Content Management System Development
2. Custom eCommerce Web Site Development
3. Intranet Development

Our applications are designed to give users full control over content and require no knowledge of HTML or advanced web design skills. All applications are designed to be SE-friendly at an architectural basis. We exercise the principles that we've written about in our book:

Appli…

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Excerpt: The average IQ of the internet pedophile is apparently much higher than the aggregate of IQs at MySpace.

Let me make a prediction: MySpace will be found liable for several incidents of child exploitation going forward — even more so than before. Wired's blog made it public over here.

I was blissfully unaware of this until now (not being a pedophile and all…), but I could always tell that MySpace was a poorly conceived application. The idea was good, but that is where it ended.

The …

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Excerpt: Authored By: Cristian Darie
http://www.cristiandarie.ro/books.

I'm writing this article to warn you about an implementation detail of the ASP.NET 2.0 session management mechanism, which, if handled incorrectly, can potentially remove your ASP.NET 2.0 web site from Google's index.

The Background
The communication protocol our web browsers use when navigating the Internet - HTTP - was designed to be stateless protocol. Unless special tracking-techniques are used, a web server that serves m…

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Excerpt: <?/*Plugin Name: HTMLTaintCheckPlugin URI: http://www.seoegghead.com/Description: Checks for suspicious links in posts. MAKE SURE TO REPLACE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE CODE BELOW — ALSO ONLY LEAVE THIS ON TO CHECK, THEN TURN IT BACK OFF!!!Author: Jaimie SirovichVersion: 0.1Author URI: http://www.seoegghead.com/*/ if (true) {  check_posts();}function check_posts(){    &…

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Excerpt: Update: WP developers are looking into this now . . .

The current version of WordPress (also 2.1-2.3.1 verified so far) is apparently vulnerable to an HTML-tainting attack. I first noticed it on this blog in the next-to-top post. I've actually been on a vacation of sorts, but I monitor changes to my web site carefully. WordPress.org has been notified, but I feel that releasing only the existence of the potential vulnerability is ethical. I have also created a a tool to audit for this atta…