Links from 2007

Kwari ™ – first person shooter skill-based cash for kills online gaming

“Every time you hit another player in Kwari you make money. Every time you are hit by another player it costs you. Every shot counts. How much is down to the stake level you play in.”

"Now that Opera has fully migrated to the new version of its rendering engine, Core-2, Opera Kestrel has a few new techniques available for developers to play with." CSS3! CSS3!

All Highpoint Lowlife’s Albums For Free Download – Groups at Last.fm

Highpoint Lowlife have put (almost) all their albums up for free on last.fm Smart move!

With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from - live!

"Headdress enhances your Mac's ability to virtually host web sites on your local network. With Headdress, you will no longer need to nest your sites or dig through config files." MAMP Pro does the job just fine for me.

A project management tool for writers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

Still can’t decide whether I like this ad or not.

Full version at Glass and a Half Full Productions.

"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis (which I define as “the practice of adding too much structure when it’s not needed and even gets in the way”)." But not all the time, naturally.

Directed by Mike Mills.

Larger, Quicktime version at 4AD

In the course of building Plaxo 3.0, which involved an ambitious foray into rich internet application design, Joseph and learned a host of lessons about the importance of performance and the means by which it can be achieved.

AlastairC's collection of worthwhile DOM-based enhancements.

Dapper allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website without any programming.

"Things is an ambitious project to create the easiest and most fun to use personal To-Do management application." Viable alternative to OmniOutliner?

There are certainly situations where CSS frameworks are useful, but it just doesn’t seem right to change the HTML to use them (for production sites).

This is the archived, old school version of anglepoised. The latest version can be found at anglepoised.com.

node tumblelog

“Countdown to the August 7, 2007 release of William Gibson’s Spook Country with news, thoughts, serious spoilers and chapter summaries in 807 characters or less.”

The most efficient way to serve compressed JavaScript is to first run your code through a JavaScript compressor that shrinks variable and argument names, and then serve the resulting code using gzip compression.

Are there brew pubs in London? If so, which ones are not to be missed? [...] Bonus points for exceptional fish and chips.

Npower have been dumping slurry into the Radley Lakes - once one of the largest wetland areas and the richest site for breeding birds in the entire county of Oxfordshire - for the past 20 years. Only two of the original 12 lakes remain.

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.

Because secondary actions can have negative consequences, especially when used unintentionally, I’ve often argued they should be absent from forms.[...]That said there are situations where secondary actions make sense.

IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music

"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes

"With the key-combos below, you can move the cursor just like the arrow keys, but better because you don’t have to move your hands from the home row. This makes typing way faster because your hands don’t have to move, and you don’t have to look down

A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.

Lest it disappear from the web completely, the PARP manifesto, as written for the PARP group in the Game Neverending.

I talked to George about Flickr’s beginnings at Ludicorp, its place in Yahoo!’s social media strategy and the Flickr design process.

Last night, I finally figured it out: flickr is a MMORPG.

From 2005. Background.

A new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML.

"Pagulayan runs a testing lab for Bungie that looks more like a psychological research institute than a game studio. The room we're monitoring is wired with video cameras that Pagulayan can swivel around to record the player's expressions or see which but

Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.

Useful (if sometimes obvious) insights.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

- Dave Barry

the online space for d.construct 07 delegates

KFC Hunger Strike!

Must. Stop. Playing.

"Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are use

Separate browsing profile and dev profile... could be confusing.

Getting to know the library of choice for unobtrusive JavaScript

Grabs all its Desktop images from Flickr, while giving you all the options to grab photos from your profile, tag searches or even the DeskLickr group filled with hand selected Desktop goodness.

Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world.