Guardian Truncation Team
Celebrating the work of the tireless men and women who shorten headlines so they’ll fit on your iPhone.
Tags: head
The Daily Torygraph
There’s two years(!) of doctored headlines here. Yes, it’s puerile but it’s also very funny (to my puerile sensibilities).
REDbot: <>
Oh, this is very handy indeed: a quick lint tool for HTTP so you can see what kind of headers are being sent. There’s a bookmarklet in the footer too.
Document Outlines | HTML5 Doctor
Mike takes on the very tricky task of explaining the new outline algorithm—definitely one of the hardest features of HTML5 to explain, in my opinion.
Camptown News Greasemonkey Script — doo-dah, doo-dah « Tom Scott
Tom’s Greasemonkey script turns any seven-syllable headline into a verse of Camptown Races.
Design for the changing web: Our response :: Studio :: Headshift
Documenting the process of switching to a responsive design. I think there’s always insight to be gained from seeing how your peers are approaching these challenges.
F*ck Yeah Headlines
Each weekday I find a headline on a major news site, and illustrate it without reading a word of the story.
Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady
A fantastic blog of letterheads. Some of the typographic choices are perfect.
fberriman » hgroups and sub-titles
Frances takes issue with the hgroup element in HTML5.
Tombstone Typography // Tom Davie - a set on Flickr
Beautiful writing on headstones.
Web Security Horror Stories: The Director's Cut at
The slides from Simon's excellent full-length presentation at the head conference. Every web developer needs to be aware of these issues.
Design View / Andy Rutledge - USA.gov Redux
At first I thought that Andy Rutledge was trying to make some nuanced satirical point here but it turns out he's just a twunt.
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code
The new Radiohead video isn't really a video at all. It's data visualisation. Here you can interact with the data points while the song is playing. I love this.
Headshift :: Twitter scepticism: justified or not?
Lee is a Twitter sceptic. Shun the unbeliever, shhuuuunnnnn!
Radiohead/ Remix/ Nude
Ever wanted to remix a Radiohead song? Me neither. But for those who do, they now can.
Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference
Compare and contrast Last.fm's chart with the "official" UK chart. It's as if Radiohead doesn't even exist in meatspace.
The Bygone Bureau » "Rainbows" Reveals a Brighter Tomorrow
Radiohead are distributing their next album themselves. You'll be able to download it for the princely sum of... whatever you feel like paying.
The London Evening Standard Headline Generator
Using photographs of actual headlines from the Evening Standard.
CSS Training Courses with edgeofmyseat.com
Want to learn CSS kung-fu? Get thee to Maidenhead on October 29th and you can learn from the best: Rachel Andrew and Drew McLellan.
Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site
The justification behind YSlow. If you've heard Nate Koechley speak, some of this will be familiar to you. It's all solid advice as far as I can tell.
Your Daily Awesome » David Byrne Interviews David Byrne, 1984
This video of David Byrne from Stop Making Sense era Talking Heads is as brilliant and wacky as you'd expect. David Bynre is teh awsum.
Headshift :: What other conferences can learn from Reboot
If you're involved in organising a conference, there are some really valuable lessons to be gleaned from Lee's examination of Reboot.
Newsvine - Newsvine Relaunches... Announcing Evergreen
Mike and the team have redesigned/realigned Newsvine with some nice customisation of the front page.
Editors' top noise cancellation headphones - CNET Reviews
I need to get some noise-cancelling headphones for the flight to Vancouver. Those Sennheisers are looking good for the price.
Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr
All the hyperbole of Evening Standard headlines gathered together in one place. I have to say, Brighton's local rag, the Evening Argus, would have them beat for incomprehensibility and ridiculousness.
Hey Crackhead
An open letter on Craigslist from a motorbike-riding engineer to the crackheads who keep stealing his bike's sparkplugs to use as crackpipes.
daily mail-o-matic
The Daily Mail headline generator.
NASA's biometric robot head
This is deep, deep, deep within the uncanny valley. *shudder*