I thought i'd be complaining that most are just JavaScript effects, but it turns out that the majority actually do involve xhr in addition to dhtml.

They really should update the sample image for item #19. Stock prices seem a tad outdated.

great list. Well worth the read.

is it just my connection or is the site down?

I vote for banning submissions that start with a number... there's 3 "list" style posts on the front page right now.

Yes. There are 10 reasons why I hate list-style posts. I plan on blogging about them later and posting here.

maybe make a list of recusrsive sarcastic comments too?

Yes. There are 10 reasons why I hate recursive sarcastic comments. I plan on blogging about them later and posting here.

You might wanna write that function using tail calls; your stack space is growing.

It's funny actually, this is something I learned from grade school! One of my elementary school teachers made this rule in class to write out numbers from [one to ten] and then use numbers to represent everything greater than ten [11, 12, ...]. Helped remove a lot of confusion then as to when is it OK to use numbers vs. writing-them-out!

The AP style book says the same thing.

Generally I frown upon lists as well, but this is a pretty good list =]

Admittedly it could've been trimmed to 15 or even 10 items.

No, but the article on creating your own POP 3 client looks interesting, at the least. I instapapered it.

Do you want to ban all collections of related information, or just articles that tell you how many items there are in the title?

This is silly, not only essays are useful.

Also /^Top \d+/i