WordPress + Invalid URLs = Extra Database Queries

January 18, 2008 – 8:38 am

After reporting weirdness last week I finally sat down with a completely clean and virgin install of WordPress 2.3.2 and traced what happens when you make a permalink request for a non-existent URL.
Here are two sets of URLs to use as examples and context:

These are valid URLs:

http://site.org/archives/101
http://site.org/page-name

These are _not_ valid URLs:

http://site.org/archivezorz/101
http://site.org/favicon.ico

Valid URLs get parsed, the [...]

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The Bathroom Reader

December 10, 2005 – 11:44 am

Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample [...]

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