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Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."

Music by On Rails.

Direcected by flippers

Featured at Geek Pop.

You think of people who do know CSS as designers, not giving any credit to the engineering prowess required to tame the stylesheet of a multinational corporation because (self-taught as they are) most true front-end gurus don’t speak the same language as you do. Their skill appears to be a black-art, some kind of magic, or internalized instinct for browser flaws. This is your guess anyway, because you simply can’t communicate with them.

When you care about performance, or SEO (or just doing a good job as web dev) an interesting data point is the ratio of page content vs. the markup used to present this content. Or... how much crap we put in HTML in order to present what the users want to see - the content.

Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.

Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-like experience when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.

While a lot of Tabs-Scripts claim to be accessible it turns out, most of them are really not.

When I hear a friend talking about learning Cappucino I react as if they’ve been tricked out of their money by a con-artist on a street corner. I think they’ve been conned out of true knowledge, duped down the wrong path. “Don’t be like those schmucks learning HTML! Just take these magic beans!”.

Really don't like these grid-based frameworks but there's some useful general info on grids here.

"Use it like an egg timer or a count down timer." Clever URLs.

Bandcamp now does download codes. Ace. "Not just any download codes, mind you, but the sort you can email to your fans OR zap over to Moo for print-on-demand, great looking, and dirt cheap physical download cards."

The Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) project was developed to provide a central information source to learn about accessibility in mobile devices.

Marinated herring on char-grilled toast, served with cucumber and mint sour cream.

A traditional Scottish soup originating from a little fishing village called Cullen on the Moray Firth in Scotland. Skink is another word for soup.

A traditional Orkadian mix of potatoes and turnips that's traditionally served with haggis.

Indulgent. Possibly dangerous.

Morphs made by fans of Tony Hart form a flash mob of tiny plasticine figures on the ground outside the Tate Modern

This is the time for business model transformation. Many product categories are not giving them the margins/volume they needed to support a growth strategy. Blueray DVDs and flat screen TVs cannot power Best Buy forward, the future is not in gadgets, it is in service innovation.

User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone

Straw and co blocked the release of the minutes, claiming that to actually let us know what was going on would set a dangerous precedent that would harm good government. Ministers wouldn't speak frankly at cabinet meetings if they felt their discussions would be subjected to the sort of scrutiny that, say, our every waking move is.

Useful for justifying/explaining.

The more I think about it, the more I want a portable Last.fm player. Not just a client app, but a proper dedicated piece of hardware, with big round love, ban and skip buttons.

The iPhone apparently uses a link tag in the page’s header to locate a suitable image and then falls back on its own creation powers if that fails.

The iPhone apparently uses a link tag in the page’s header to locate a suitable image and then falls back on its own creation powers if that fails.

"Australia’s leading lubricant and additives manufacturer; Nulon Products is solving a much needed dilemma for UK drivers just in time for winter by releasing “Start Ya Bastard” Instant Engine Starter." I don't have any engines but I need some of this.

My new favourite place. Great food, amazing range of excellent tequila.

My new favourite place. Great food, amazing range of excellent tequila.

Missed this the first time round.

"Create your own hat, dare the color, the pompom, the papaya stripe, be imaginative and create the most stylish hat of the neighborhood. Then, when you’re done playing the artist, you choose the grandma who is going to make your hat." Genius.

Antony Gormley, the man behind Britain's best-loved sculpture The Angel of the North, is inviting the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break beginning on 6th July, a different person will make the Plinth their own.

Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

Quick compendium of things to bear in mind when building iPhone sites.

"Unlimited connections on static IPs. Secure VPN exit in Switzerland. No download or upload limits. No content filtering. No port blocking. No packet shaping. No transparent web caches. No fair usage policy. No Phorm. No small print. No call centres. No lock in period." But... expensive.

"Xenocode WebApp technology allows Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome to run simultaneously on any version of Windows, directly from the web". Win only.

"Yes, there is full page zoom (which works much better in IE 8 than in IE 7), but the controls for resizing text only are still there, and they still do not work when pixels or an absolute unit has been used." Still? Doh.

More reasons for JavaScript off.

Better title might be "Reasons why orgs or individuals might disable JavaScript". List is "Protection from XSS and CSRF, Mobile Device Issues, Problem with Screen Readers." Final one (Framework vs. Coding) doesn't really make sense.

“Mr Foster says that what must be done is to teach organisations to "expand their talent management agenda from a narrow and tactical focus on human resources activities around the employee life…

— Accenture’s next champion of waffle words

The player accumulates points by how much they stretch during gameplay. These points can be submitted online via a character called Sun to another character called Girl. Points submitted online by players to Girl will be added cumulatively, causing Girl to stretch. Beginning on Earth, Girl will stretch to the Moon, then to several other planets, each unlocking new playable environments for Boy to stretch in. The Noby Noby Boy team expects players to take between one and two weeks of cumulative play time to reach the Moon.

The pop-up store is offering the public the chance to sample the Kingsmill product range for breakfast every weekday between 8 - 11am until the 27th of February.

It turns out that Best Buy has embraced the use of social media to empower it’s employees and reaped massive productivity gains as a result.

Internal microblogging/sharing at Best Buy.