All the buzz about the Internet Explorer’s lack of support for PNGs, may have been for naught, as the patent on the compression scheme used in the GIF is set to expire.

The latest from Digital Web is a great column by Jeff Lash about designing for people who don’t enter through the homepage. And be sure to read interview with Anil Dash about TypePad on the (temporarily?) resurrected A List Apart.

And a big congrats to CBC Radio 3’s well-deserved wins at this years Webby’s (this site won the Webby and People’s Voice for the Broadband category; as well as the People’s Voice for Radio).

Finally, an even bigger congratulations to good friends Natalie and Noah on the birth of their first child, a son.

Now these I like: Dan Cederholm’s mini-tabs.