hacktastic. probably will negatively effect text selection in Internet Explorer... but that's just a theory

poor man's irc how-to for using Google Talk's group chat feature with other Jabber-aware clients.

Let's say you're on a book-related site (Amazon, BN, isbn.nu) and your current page's URL includes an ISBN. (Choose a hardcover edition for best results -- see tips below.) You can click your bookmarklet to check if the book is available in your local lib

Doesn't describe a backdoor to Google - but how masking yourself as "Googlebot" will give you access to a lot of registration-only content

Says it only works for Safari 1.0 but I had no problems making it work for Tiger's Safari. Most importantly it fixes the stupid Aqua colored progress bar.

Interesting... I need to play around more with the defaults properties.