As Pez noted, Our Story now features related articles in the sidebar. This was accomplished by Kalsey Consultants’ Related Entries plugin for MovableType. I had originally seen this at their blog (which is–in and of itself–decidedly cool) and thought it would be a great use of the sidebar, which I’d always envisioned as serving context-sensitive information for a given article.

I don’t think I’ve quite nailed the layout of the sidebar, so I’m going back to my roots and scrutinizing how other people are doing it.

Must…resist…blatant…imitation!

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Doug Bowman designs another sweet-looking CSS/XHTML freakin’ strict validating website. Nice. It takes this guy hours to do what it would take me months to figure out.

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A new Thunderbird build is out. Thunderbird is the new email client by the Mozilla organization that uses the design cues (both internally and in the user interface) originated by the Firebird project. I’ve been using Thunderbird as my main email client since the July 1^st build and have been really pleased. The only problem I’ve had is that the junk mail feature is catching a lot of false positives. This new build features prettier UI icons and a more organized Options panel.

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I discovered a fix for the problem that Ryan (and others) pointed out with hyperlinks in comments. The problem was that exceedingly long links ran off the edge of the page, making the site look stupid. I discovered this blog at The Girlie Matters where the author was trying to figure out how to make autolinking happen in HTML comments in Movable Type. She used Brad Choate’s Regex plugin to solve the problem. It occurred to me in reading the post that I could modify the string in Brad’s regular expression to change an unnecessarily long hyperlink to [link]. See it in action in Ryan’s comment. Happy linking.