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Sheep aren’t so dumb: Apparently,

Sheep aren’t so dumb: Apparently, they have a very good memory for faces, researchers discovered.

Kendrick suspects sheep got their dim-witted reputation because they live in large groups and do not appear to have much individuality and they are scared of just about everything.

“Any animal, including humans, once they are scared, they don’t tend to show signs of intelligent behaviour,” he explained.

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Software and Programming

Articles on DHTML development on

Articles on DHTML development on Apple’s site Most of them were written, I think, by Danny Goodman, although his credit is hidden. If it works in the Mac browsers, it’ll hopefully work in the Windows browsers (and Linux browsers – well, some of them…):
The nicest thing about them is the copyright notice / License:

// Copyright © 2000 by Apple Computer, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
//
// You may incorporate this Apple sample code into your own code
// without restriction. This Apple sample code has been provided "AS IS"
// and the responsibility for its operation is yours. You may redistribute
// this code, but you are not permitted to redistribute it as
// "Apple sample code" after having made changes.
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Software and Programming

Sjoerd Visscher has a bleeding-edge

Sjoerd Visscher has a bleeding-edge website that never seems to work perfectly in whatever browser I’m using. However, he has two interesting articles about high-level programming in Javascript and callbacks/event handlers, centered on the flexibility of Javascript Function objects.

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An online version of I

An online version of I Ching.

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Google now converts Word and

Google now converts Word and other file formats to HTML. Google So Rules.