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“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.

Notes from Leisa Richelt presentation.

Unless I’m creating cookie-cutter sites, I don’t think a CSS framework can help me. That said, I think a framework like Blueprint has its place.

The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide.

Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs

"…what if the reason that web accessibility (and accessibility in general) hasn’t got as far as it should have by now, is that the majority of designers/managers/people in charge of making stuff have no, or not enough knowledge of what life is like fo

If you use TextMate, you should really think about using the TODO bundle more often. It’s a pretty simple, low-maintenance bundle that adds tremendous value to your code.

This 15-week course is designed to expose you to the power and functionality of Flash MX 2004.

Paper Critters: Online Paper Toy Creator

Pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy.

I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad. Over the past few months it’s become clear to me exactly how wrong I was. jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering.

Man punched for singing Coldplay song

Justice is done.

"I decided some time ago that if I was going to build an issue tracker that I’d have to start by creating a simple issue life-cycle and workflow...." Garrett's working on an issue tracker.

Another CSS framework.

Another Blueprint discussion

Supports playback of a single MP3 file or an RSS, XSPF or ATOM playlist (with advertisement possibilities), a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.

The idea that a redesign of anything more than the most basic of sites will not require changes to (X)HTML markup is simply a myth.