Links from 2006

We claim to be a nation of foodies, yet vegetables still mystify many cooks - especially those weird specimens that turn up in the weekly organic box. What exactly do you do with chard or salsify? Do turnips have to be a turnoff?

...without dirtying the environment

Microfibre cleaning cloths.

mySociety provide petition tool for PM.

Big list of microformats resources

"K2 [...] is the frontend of WordPress. It's main concern is displaying the data fetches through WordPress in the right way at the right time. Furthermore [...] K2 cares about you and is always trying to make sure you are presented with exactly the tools

The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone.

A few weeks ago, npemap.org.uk launched. It's an interface for browsing scans of out-of-copyright maps from the 1950s. The site asks people to enter post codes based on that old mapping data, which can then be placed in the public domain.

Rude.

Work daftness

Summary of accessibility legislation by country.

Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.

Just about every time somebody publishes something on the Web, it gets time stamped. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull in all these disparate bits of time stamped information and build up a timeline of online activity?

Apt name for a service

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL.

"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all thr

Asi interviews Jonathan Harris, "the artist behind such great recent projects as Yahoo! Time Capsule, We Feel Fine, Loveliness and Phylotaxis".

100+ hours of downloadable & playlisted radio shows

Plug the desktop computer into the OneClick product MASTER SOCKET and the peripherals into the other sockets [..] Turn the desktop computer on, and the OneClick product instantly switches power to the peripherals.

no-click disposable email system

Your developers have just planned a two week iteration. The next day Sarah continues her work on the completion of an important New Project. And here it comes - Urgent Stuff:

An approved retailer of the Energy Saving Trust.

Eco restaurant, King's Cross

Unless we are working to support a client's specific browser matrix (which might include odd combinations of older browsers), this is the order in which we test our CSS in browsers.

Mixed metaphors.

A chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango.

Official Tourist Board website for the Ardeche region.

A luxury hand-crafted tent with a king-sized bed - it's camping but not as we know it in the Ardeche

Scott talks about his experience with functional testing tools including TestComplete by AutomatedQA.

There are two excellent free services that take YouTube videos, download them to your hard drive, convert them to MP4 format and add them to iTunes.

New York-based designer bedding.

Modern solutions a web-developer can use [when] designing his/her next css-based form.

Organize special events, from conferences and workshops to parties, gigs, and receptions.

"A hard-hitting government advertising campaign on sexual diseases, featuring raunchy scenes of young people grappling in pubs, clubs and on deserted footpaths, launches today in an attempt to make 18- to 24-year-olds think of condoms as "essential wear"

Access to thousands of shots from the vast and diverse archives of the BBC

...fill Australia with balls of fire!

Britons exaggerate how green they are, with most mistakenly believing that they are following energy-saving practices.

Some interesting figures from social networking company executives here at the Web 2.0 Summit1. Cyworld and MySpace are, more than ever, heads and shoulders above the competition.

A community for exchanging used books [...] lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Choose LEGEND text that is:Concise: between 1 and 6 words; Relevant: to every single form field in the FIELDSET; Seamless: in that the words chosen for the LEGEND should make sense when joined to each label phrase.

Notes from a talk by Ben Collins-Sussman & Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Google employees).

A quick set of guidelines for making the best use of Subversion in your day-to-day software development work.

I’m appealing to supporters to donate small amounts to support me while I start up a research project.

The biggest barrier in the networked world is convincing groups of people, not just individuals, simply to use (or even try!) your software.

RSS for Kone-R's new podcast.

Topics: 1. How designing for the web has changed / 2. How to measure the impact of usability checks / 3. Life at Google - and how Measure Map is playing out / 4. The state of the industry