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Following on from Mike Beltzner’s post about the user experience sessions he and Alex Faaborg will be leading at Web 2.0 Expo this week, I wanted to add that Brendan Eich will also be speaking this Monday.

The Arrival of Web 2.0: The State of the Union on Browser Technology

Rael Dornfest, Founder and CEO, Values of n, Inc.
Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation
Charles McCathieNevile, Developer, Opera software
Chris Wetherell, Google, Inc.
Chris Wilson, Microsoft Corporation

Track: Design and User Experience
Date: Monday, April 16
Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: 2003

The rise of modern, standards-based browsers like Firefox and Safari helped Web 2.0 achieve liftoff in 2004. Now that IE7 has joined the party, we’ve seen the emergence of a fairly stable assortment of capable browsers that can actually keep up with the state of the Web. So where are we with browsers? What new techniques can designers use with confidence? How will open standards evolve from here?

thanks jon. this made my day.

Senator Stevens Internet Forensics.

After his staffers sent the internet letter and the letter shattered into pieces by the internal sledgehammer encased in the congressional mail server, the pieces were slingshotted into the internet’s pipe (to visual this, think of how a potato gun works and then simply reverse the process in your head).