Guidelines for Visualizing Links
It never ceases to amaze me how Jakob Nielsen can make money from stating the excruciatingly obvious. Much more interesting is DesignByFire's makeover of Jakob's recent Alert column.

CFMX 6.1: Increased Verity support for Linux
The Verity that ships with CF is a much maligned and misunderstood beast. It's a great little feature bundled in for free. The only problem is Verity SDK for CFMX is a bit old -- and so more modern platforms have not been supported as well as they could be. Looks like Macromedia have recently got some updated binaries for Linux.

CFEclipse: CFML plug-in for the Eclipse IDE v3.0
Rob Rohan and crew have released another update to the CFEclipse CFML plug-in for the Eclipse IDE v3.0. Given the DW team's reluctance to support the hand-coder and the virtual abandonment of Homesite+, the CFEclipse movement may get some legs.

MS Office 2004 for Mac: Flash Video Demo
Out of curiosity I was checking the features of MS Office for the Mac and came across a really neat bit of multimedia demoing the features of the new version of Office that makes good use of Flash video, worth checking out if you have the bandwidth.

OT: McDonalds Trademarks "I Am Asian"
Too weird: it appears as though McDonalds have trademarked the phrase "I am Asian" as well as grabbed the URL: http://www.i-am-asian.com/