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So on a day when everyone appears to be making terrible and tasteless jokes about Michael Jackson, I wanted to post a video of one of his songs which is still high on my list of all time favourites. Please enjoy Earth Song.

I couldn’t decide if this was more suited to the sensible or the new fun side of slightlymore, but in the end have decided that it’s probably going to find more friends in the light relief section. We all love to hate IE6, it’s way past it’s death-by-date, but it’s unfortunately still lingering around like a particularly bad smell. Luckily, with the birth of IE8, the stench of 6 might soon pass, and Paul Boag has recorded an absolutely genius Eulogy for IE6 on audioboo – you’ll likey!

We all love the TV series House. We all love out-takes. If you don’t, you’re probably either lying or boring. Hugh Laurie is, let’s face it, a bit of a legend, and these clips confirm the diagnosis. So sit back and enjoy a small portion of outtakes from the TV series House.

Again, just filler material really to flesh out the new light relief section. Although it is still rather good. This time, enjoy the sounds Darth Vader speaking words from Snatch.

I’m currently giving slightlymore a bit of a restructure and have decided to split up the feeds into more sensible chunks. I now offer four feeds for your pleasure: Everything, Just the blog posts, Just the links and Just the light relief.

This is a quick tester really for the new light relief section. It’s not the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life – but it’s a good start! It is the dialogue of Pulp Fiction along with 1960′s Batman footage.

Google went to Times Square in New York and posed (what we believe to be) a simple question – What is a browser? The answers were quite interesting – some people had no clue; others were painfully close, it just seemed like they didn’t have the right words to explain what they meant. Either way, it’s an interesting watch, and goes to show that what we take for granted isn’t always common knowledge.

It sets the value on the left to be itself plus the value on the right (for example, i+=3 is the same as i = i+3). It’s called the addition-assignment operator.

I can’t believe that I’m actually building one of those ‘XXX things you XXX about XXX’ lists, but I am. Although I’m letting myself off because this is not just (what I consider to be) filler material, but some links to some lectures which have genuinely improved my understanding and use of Javascript.

This post is mainly aimed towards Wordpress, Textpattern and (probably) a multitude of other CMS driven website users. ‘Smart’ web software will automatically create a ‘slug’ for your new article, but it’s not always best to trust the CMS to come up with the best URL for you.