links for 2008-05-19

Software that will disable all network connectivity on your computer for a time period that you specify. While some may ask what the point is, there’s much to be said for enforcing focus with a tool like this.

Use NodeBox and python and some very simple code to produce some very clean and information-rich graphs on OS X. Worth looking into.

“NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie.” Shiny.

While all of these could be generalized as “IE 6 is a pain in the ass,” this is a must-read for CSS layout and positioning debugging.