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Free (mildly festive in places) album from the doubledotdash!? people. Good stuff.

Makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. The site is currently in a private beta-testing period.

Vitalic – Birds, by Pleix.

(reblogged from rach)

"A blog about living, working, cooking and eating on organic farms and small holdings around the UK." Great idea.

Arcade Ambience Project

“an attempt […] to simulate the audio ambience of a crowded arcade room during the golden age of arcades in the 1980s.”

Load Firebug lite in any page via a bookmarklet.

Blimey, going back a bit. Spot me and win a prize.

A blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in) [...] Chyrp destroys the fine line separating a blog and a tumblelog."

"svn merge -r 1708:1707". Also, revision keywords.

Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024.

A teacup of teeth

Of different hues and sizes

Grandma’s house is weird.

Haiku Tennis Anthology

"What I’ve seen in our work is that form factor, though important, is not crucial. In fact, it might be a misleading concern. The thing that’s interesting about designing for mobile isn’t the form of the device. It’s that the device comes with you

"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors." Not sure how I missed this.

Looking for a quick way to lock your screen and put the display to sleep on Mac OS X using Quicksilver?

Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P.

The big problem with Facebook is the plain fact that it’s an extremely annoying piece of software. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about all the stupid, nasty, and sometimes scary things Facebook has done

Create as many encrypted vaults as you want, each with separate passwords. Then schedule automatic backups. You can even reformat USB sticks and external drives as encrypted Knox vaults.

"Allows you to scan in and manage your documents." If only I could be bothered to buy a scanner.

I'd not come across this before. Pretty theft.

"Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes time and time again." Good summary.

The list below is designed to help you find new ways to give online and to make sure your money is going to a place that will really help those in need.

US digital -> analogue TV switchover site.

Two rival gunmen forge a momentary friendship when they unite forces against a common enemy.

A joint collaborative [...] To experience it, launch the Glitchbrowser. If you typed the page address correctly, you should now see some of the images on your requested page becoming glitched.

Goodness me.

Bafta 60 Seconds of Fame Competition

Take a look at Unto Others by The Flippers and friends.

Lets you easily sync your music libraries locally and over the net. For Mac and Windows.

A graphical interface (GUI) for easily configuring Synergy2, an application that allows the user to share his mouse and keyboard between two or more computers.

If however, you start off by thinking about web pages, site maps, left hand navigations and visual design you will very quickly photoshop yourself into a corner. You will find it difficult to create a web of data.

An outpost for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. Completely random and updated regularly, inspiration drawn from - and relevant to - the larger creative world.

An unobtrusive jQuery component that adds datagrid behaviors (column resizing, paging, sorting, row and column styling, and more) to your tables.

To keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year

A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set.

A social learning site for Photoshop artists providing new tutorials and design articles, as voted and suggested by your fellow users.

Make live movies of your Mac's screen… capture everything that's happening there, including mouse pointer, selections and movements

Jack of all trades, master of none,

...though ofttimes better than master of one.

Something funny about this whole Web 2.0 thing…much of what makes the experience is made of written words

Interesting-looking agency/consultancy type thing.

Set up by ex-Republic people, I think.