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Over the years, I’ve found quite some interesting unknown quirky facts about these shorthands…

reformats and compresses Web pages for optimal use on nearly any type of handheld device on the market.

An entertainment company located near Vancouver BC Canada which focuses on producing humorous original content for the internet and beyond.

The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies.

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.

Leading independent mental health organisation in Islington

System utility that greatly simplifies managing your Smartphone. CopyPaste does exactly what its name says in any editable field – edit box. Copy or cut the info from an edit box and paste it to another one.

UK Public Recycling Database

Search through almost 70,000 volunteering opportunities and apply online.

The UK's leading sustainable transport charity

"Give out your web site - on CD, DVD, USB stick or laptop." Hmmm.

Microformat tools

Remix cinema. You can be part of a groundbreaking new project to fund, make, and distribute a £1 million film using the Internet.

We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.

A few new CSS hacks that work in Internet Explorer 7

The problem is that your server is not specifying a character set for the style sheet, so the browser has to guess. There is no canonical way to guess.

Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly.

Flash guide to London

Dalston-based gallery.

You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.

"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t

Eco-correspondent, Richard Hammond, picks 30 of the best green places to stay around the world.

A GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Wget. It is FREE. It will keep track of your downloads - add, clone, edit, delete jobs.

By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations.

What’s the best tools out there for keeping track of your online buzz?

Google maps for mobiles

One kind of a comments (downlevel-hidden) is valid and the other (downlevel-revealed) is not. I tried to adapt those invalid comments the way that they would be valid.

The layout I describe here will have a fixed header at the top of the page, a scrolling content area in the middle, and a fixed footer at the bottom of the page.

Safari also suffers from [FOUC]

Seven new fonts that will be part of the new Windows O/S, codenamed Longhorn.

Quick fonts on t'web roundup.

Using jQuery’s plugin architecture, a number of smart people have taken the built-in effects one step further, creating some very pleasing modules for image enhancement.

Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.

Free music for download, including tracks from Cursor Miner and Si Begg

"Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP". YACMS.

WinTabber can add tabs to many windows. A tabbed browser ,tabbed putty , tabbed terminal or tabbed shell, tabbed anything.

In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors.