There’s a serious case of pot-kettle-black-itis in this article by the New York Times — the home of the obnoxious, pointless, “free registration required” landing page — decrying “private beta” sites that aren’t open to everyone, everywhere, right now.

In retaliation for Digg’s naughty framing and link and Google-juice hijacking in their new DiggBar, John Gruber outlines how to block all users who come to his site via Digg by checking referrers. But what if, instead of being a high-traffic, high-respect, badass like him, you’re some sorry chump with a total of eleven points on Digg? Throwing up a giant middle finger isn’t going to hurt Digg (they aren’t even going to notice) and even has the possibility of hurting your own traffic. So you throw in a framekiller. Works like a charm.

…and out with the BDEVIL!

Ask HN: Why do Unix groups still require re-logging in to register changes?

Check out Kalin Varbanov’s Glagolitic Alphabet Anatomy, a geometric, sans-serif re-imagining of Glagolitic, one of the oldest Slavic alphabets.

Evolving a better keyboard layout:

…the evolutionary algorithm couldn’t produce a layout that could beat the Dvorak layout that gets seeded into the final all-star round.

The Dvorak keyboard layout must be an example of intelligent design.

What’s better than a Periodic Table of Europeans? Why, A Periodic Table of Typefaces, of course:

(Via Holly.)

I wonder how long before something like staple/unstaple gets integrated into a file-sharing protocol:

If [the copyright holder] wants to prove that Bob is violating the DMCA, she must violate the DMCA herself…

Another genetic map of Europe. It won’t be long before we can pinpoint a person’s ancestry down to an individual village using science like this.