Well, since "it's always something," Nana Rosannadanna would have been disappointed if there didn't turn out to be at least a little "something" about the JavaScript solution to the frames focus dealie mentioned in this space yesterday. Apparently the script is working as it theoretically should, and not causing indigestion for decaffeinated browsers (the big fear), but a side-effect of the script's intended purpose, which is to bring the news page into focus, that is at issue. Apparently on some browsers for some users the new script will cause your browser to pop into focus on your desktop after the page loads if you navigate to this page and then switch to another application (this does not happen to me). If it turns out to be a huge problem it can be addressed, but it seems the way the new code makes the news more easily scrollable generated a lot of positive feedback, and only a few mentions of this problem. One mail that mentioned this pointed out this is an annoying quality we now share with the HotMail site, and another called it "rude," though another note said they still preferred the change in spite of this problem. Please feel free to send in your thoughts on this, or post a message.

I forgot to mention that someone indeed came up with the perfect phrase for those orphaned network wires behind so many computers on so many LANs I mentioned the other day... Wayne posted a message to the messageboards calling them "netsam" (as in flotsam and jetsam). I knew I could've continued wracking my brain and still not come up with something as good as one already being used, and I was certainly right. Netsam it is. Thanks again Wayne.

Link of the Day: Crash Test Dumbass, a Crash Test Dummies simulator. The web-based version uses Flash, but there are desktop versions for the Mac and PC for download. Thanks Ant.
Story of the Day: Cops Bust Man Armed With Sex Toy "apparently thinking the clerk was not taking him seriously, Vetters allegedly grabbed a sex toy, known as a 'vibrating tongue,' off a display rack and waved it at the clerk." Thanks Buclerpp.