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Saturday May 20 2006

Aight... After reading Mike's story about hacking MySpace I couldn't resist giving it a shot as well. Here's the result. This is the first page that looks different in EVERY browser I tried. The only one rendering it right is Firefox so I guess you should view it with just that. This mess (understatement) isn't worth spending more time on but it was nice to play around for a bit ;)

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At 26 May '06 - 21:25 Ghyspran wrote:
Your link to Mike’s story is wrong. It leads to http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2006/05/20/www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/04/hacking-myspace-layouts instead of http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/04/hacking-myspace-layouts

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