del.icio.us links for 2006-01-31

• A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail: Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance. (css design html layout)
• Boing Boing: Flying windmills -- power from the sky: Where's the best place for a windmill? Up in the jet stream. 2.81 MW flying or floating (tethered) at 15-30K ft altitiude, and a cost of $0.014/kWhr. Boing Boing has a nicer picture than the original article. (boingboing cool energy environment news weird)
• Boing Boing: StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products: Threatening Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow over being critical about your malware product is probably not a good plan. In fact, it's an invitation to a legal ass-kicking. (boingboing copyright law)
• The F-Word: The F-word in this case is "food", though the chef, Gordon Ramsey, is well-known for swearing all the fucking time. I'd pick him to win a fantasy fist-fight with Jamie Oliver. (food funny tv uk weird)
• CNN.com - Dominatrix acquitted in client's death - Jan 31, 2006: Prosecutors said she confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped. Investigators testified they did not save their notes. And no body or physical evidence was ever found. The prosecutor wore a bondage mask during closing arguments. (crime massachusetts murder news sex us weird)
• Sploid: 'I've lived off roadkill for the last 30 years': With rising concerns about how animals are treated by agribusiness, Arthur Boyt has found the perfect source for meat, the roads of England. Boyt has been invited to appear on BBC 4's The F Word with Gordon Ramsay to prepare a three-course meal for 60. (animal food news sploid uk weird)
• Sploid: Pagan scouts!: A scouting group for pagan kids is spreading through North America, but Christians say the nature-worshipping youngsters are only earning a merit badge in Satanism. (funny news religion sploid weird)
• Sploid: 'Attorney General's pants are on fire!': Sen. Russell Feingold is accusing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of lying during his confirmation hearing last year. Feingold's letter (PDF) is worh reading. (bush congress crime evil liberty nsa privacy security surveillance us)
• "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful: An Earnest Plea to Mailing List Administrators -- This is old, but some people have failed to learn the lesson. (email rant reference usability)