Links for 2004-12-02

Posted December 2, 2004 12:13 AM.

• The Tiny Random Hat Project
  Concept in a nutshell: buy drinks with hats, give money to charity, wear tiny hat, get someone to take a photo, look dumb, get dumped by your partner, embrace the fundamental pain of existence. You know, for kids!
  (categories: drinks dumb flickr hat hats humour innocentsmoothies knitting photographs stupid thetomcoateshatproject tinyhats wool)
• Health toll of anti-gay prejudice
  "Discrimination is being blamed for high rates of mental health problems amongst gay men and lesbians, a study suggests. A survey of 1,285 homosexual and bisexual men and women found just under a third had attempted suicide."
  (categories: anxiety discrimination gay harrassment health homosexual mentalhealth politics prejudice suicide)
• Simple guide to .htaccess-based password protection
  Not terribly thrilling this one, but always useful for quick reference when you need to protect some admin interface or back-end that's lying around the place.
  (categories: apache htaccess html htpasswd password passwordprotect php protect protection unix web)