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An e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog."

Line – Number One (Cyan341 remix)

"It's Twitter, disguised as a spreadsheet." PowerPoint was probably too much to ask for.

The follow up to High Performance Websites, from Steve Souders and other yahoos.

"So, is Interaction Design a dead-end job? As an expertise, no. But as a discrete service offering or a career path, I say absolutely." Slightly inflammatory; read on for the significant caveat.

"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." Pies, pies, the sky is all pies.

The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

"How do I change my company’s name?" Why, by passing a special resolution at a general meeting or by having all member sign a written resolution, then paying a tenner to Companies House.

A prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs.

As used by my crappy ISP.

They don't seem to be precious about ideas. They don't cherish them, regard them as valuable or hard to have. They have lots and lots of them and then prune, recombine and mutate. He talked about this as 'excess and selection'. You have an excess of ideas and then pick the ones that seem to fit the problem. (And you keep them all, because they might come in handy next time.)

MEAT CARDS

“Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS.”

Reach, engagement, influence, sentiment.

Enables you to collect your accounts - on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and every other network of your choice - in one spot, and share them in real life by using any mobile phone or Connector.

An Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

Freecycle alternative.

"This, then, is my current thinking about embedded web fonts: FUCK THE FOUNDRIES." Mark Pilgrim rants.

"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.

The API (available at Gigulate.com/api) will offer developers the chance to build on the Gigulate aggregation platform, which has an engine to pull in trusted music news sources.

Why Dave Shea is switching from XHTML to HTML.

Uncannily accurate.

Holy fuck.

New material from Devo: Don’t Shoot (I’m A Man) (via ireallylovemusic)

Hadn't realised there was a W3C Widget Spec in the pipeline.

Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk

Software for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and performance-oriented audio processing.

Liner notes for The Village Orchestra's Et In Arcadia Ego. The album is made from samples of tracks the artist really hates (Richard Marx, Chris Isaak, The Corrs, Bruce Hornsby and The Range etc)

Weird analogy but some useful points.

"[Bob Willett] says it is wrong for analysts to focus on store openings, as the internet is key to growth - web sales are rising faster here than in the US. "Up to a third of our business will be done on the web, so you don't need hundreds of stores," he says."

Hilarious.

Ooooh. "Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path."

Good argument to use for gzip. "Inevitably, someone will argue that they can't spare a few ms per page to compress the data, even though it will make their site much more responsive. However, it occured to me today that thanks to Amazon, it's very easy to compare CPU vs Bandwidth."

It works directly with Django Models and provides a familiar API to people who are comfortable with Django.

Creates a page fold effect in the top right corner.

FACT magazine: Download/Interview: The Village Orchestra (Full Album)

Really enjoying this album.

“We’ve hooked up with the excellent Highpoint Lowlife label to give away The Village Orchestra’s 2005 full-length Et In Arcadia Ego for free.”

Hurrah, Undercover iPhone version is out. "If your iPhone is stolen, Undercover will pretend to be a game. This will encourage the thief to wait a few seconds for the game to load, enabling Undercover to get accurate location information. This location information is then added to your account and transmitted to the police station where you reported the theft."

Cool is relative.

“Its staff are polite, serve afternoon tea and let you buy your ticket on the train – and now they’ve seen off competition from Virgin”.

I have no particular reason to visit any of the places on the Wrexham & Shropshire line but I’m going to find one after reading this.

Victory of the ‘Shropshire thunderbolt’ | UK news | The Observer

Soufflé? Pah. Recipe for hot chocolate puddings further down.

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.