Anyway, here is a screenshot of the post complete with a price list and an ICQ number where they can be reached. Of course, I have excluded the actual ICQ number and any pertinent identifying information as I do not condone such illegal and destructive activities. I have just never been approached as such and thought it was quite hilarious.

So how does the new search engine stack up? From my short review of it, it behaves surprisingly similar to Google, the de-facto standard in search engines and close to being a common household term. Once you search you have links at the top to view images and videos of the same search terms and various other options including shopping, news and maps. The interface looks very nice. It looks like they borrowed the home page from ask.com in that there is a boxed image around the search input. The difference is the bing image changes every day, plus you can scroll back through past images.

One nice feature that I like is the video search. It lists an image preview for the results and lists below the preview where the video is hosted (YouTube, MySpace, MetaCafe). Then when you click on the preview it plays the video right in the search results in a video player at the top. Very sleek.

So will this be the final, once and for all Google killer? Yeah… I seriously doubt it. It does basically the same thing with maybe a little more pizaz. However it is nice to have company’s out there innovating to push the envelope and make the internet a nicer and more usable place to be.

Well, you can see it right there. The link points to help.mymediacomonline.com. If you head on over to that link you get none other than a simple text output of… “hello world.” That’s just not very much help at all. It is however very funny.

Ext JS 3.0 RC1.1 brings a host of new features to the table
Weblenium gives a quick overview of the new features found in Ext JS 3.0 RC1.1.

Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop, Challenges AIR, Silverlight
Scott Gilbertson covering the release of a new FireFox Add-On called Prism, which looks like it is contending with the likes of AIR and Silverlight.

20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
Glen Stansberry giving a great list of excellent AJAX effects.

Field: Experimental Programming IDE
So what will programming look like in the future? Those crazy guys at M.I.T. are taking a stab. See what they are coming up with.

using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace DescriptiveEnums
{
  ///
  /// Create the custom Attribute named Description
  ///
  public class DescriptionAttribute : Attribute
  {
    public String StringValue { get; protected set; }
    public DescriptionAttribute(String value)
    {
      this.StringValue = value;
    }
  }

  ///
  /// Attach a method ToDescriptionString to our enumeration that enables us
  /// to get the value of our custom Description attribute.
  ///
  public static class MyCustomEnumerationExtensions
  {
    public static String ToDescriptionString(this MyCustomEnumeration value)
    {
      // Get the type
      Type type = value.GetType();

      // Get fieldinfo for this type
      FieldInfo fieldInfo = type.GetField(value.ToString());

      // Get the Description attributes
      DescriptionAttribute[] attributes =
        fieldInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false) as DescriptionAttribute[];

      // Return the first if there was a match
      return attributes.Length > 0 ? attributes[0].StringValue : String.Empty;
    }
  }

  ///
  /// Enumeration for demonstration
  ///
  public enum MyCustomEnumeration
  {
    [Description("Item One Description")]
    ITEM_ONE,
    [Description("Item Two Description")]
    ITEM_TWO,
    [Description("Item Three Description")]
    ITEM_THREE
  }

  ///
  /// Main program to test functionality
  ///
  class Program
  {
    ///
    /// Main program - Just prints out the values of the enumeration items
    ///
    ///

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      // Create an instance of our enumeration and print to the console
      MyCustomEnumeration myEnum = MyCustomEnumeration.ITEM_ONE;
      Console.WriteLine(myEnum.ToDescriptionString());

      // Did you know you could increment an enumeration? Sure you did!
      myEnum++;
      Console.WriteLine(myEnum.ToDescriptionString());
      myEnum++;
      Console.WriteLine(myEnum.ToDescriptionString());
    }
  }
}

Here is Feel It (In The Air Tonight)

Here is Wall of Sound (Embedding has been disabled so you’ll have to make the trek to YouTube to see that one. It’s worth it!)

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** Sorry, no lyrics today

Dangerous designs
Vijay Mathew makes some strong arguments against the unnecessary complexity of many modern programming languages and provides examples of some simple and “elegant” alternatives.

5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable
Matthew Kammerer gives us some tips on creating useful 404 error pages.

10 Linux and open source developer tools you should not overlook
Jack Wallen brings you 10 Linux and Open Source developers tools that… well… you can read the title for yourself.

40 Beautiful Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design
And a little something for the web designers out there. Matt Cronin provides quite an extensive list of sites using some cool, retro designs.

EDIT: Oops! I left off the HREF for that last one. Just added it.

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