Knol Target Audience clarified
Google has just clarified the target audience for its Knol Project in an Official Google Blog entry.
PCI Compliance
40 and 56 bit ciphers aren't just in practice but now also legally history if you want to or have to be PCI compliant. Although I don't know any [ssl capable] browser that has problems with higher bit ciphers, low encryption - including SSLv2 - has to be fully disabled on your web server.
Unfortunately it's easy to trip over the fact that the allowable ciphers can be specified in the Apache configuration as a global default, but also deviating from the default setting for each virtual host [and individual directories, but let's not go there].
SSLScan is a handy tool to verify your server configuration, as it's far more specific in its output than openssl s_client... . To be sure what your server does you shouldn't just test the domain name[s] configured for SSL but also the IP addresses and localhost.
Content is King
Is it just an oversight or is it "good business" - an all too common justification these days - to take money from professional spam providers?
Better Images
It appears bicubic interpolation is turned off by default in Microsoft's Internet Exploder although it defaults to on in probably all modern browsers. There's a vendor specific CSS instruction you can use to turn it on.
img {
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
}