Linked List: March 20, 2005

Sunday, 20 March 2005

Ask Jeeves Sold for $1.9 Billion 

Purchased by IAC/Interactive, parent company of Expedia, Ticket Master, and Home Shopping Network. Maybe it really is 1996 all over again. (Via Daniel Bogan via AIM.)

[Update: Now the entire article has been rewritten to put the deal in the future tense: “An announcement could be made as early as today.”]

Rounded Box Corners in CSS 

It’s a hack, but a potentially useful hack. (Via Photo Matt.)

Yahoo Did Buy Flickr 

Confirming all the rumors from the last few weeks.

Hixie’s Natural Log: Call an Apple an Apple 

Ian Hickson:

So I have a request: could people please stop making up new names for existing technologies? Just call things by their real name!