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What’s on the Menu? Help transcribe The New York Public Library’s historical menu collection
This is like Zooniverse’s Old Weather project, but for restaurant menus: help transcribe thousands of restaurant menus going back to the 1940s.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
This move by Google to start executing some POST requests makes me very uneasy: the web is agreement and part of that agreement is that POST requests are initiated by the user.
danwebb.net - It’s About The Hashbangs
A superb post by Dan on the bigger picture of what’s wrong with hashbang URLs. Well written and well reasoned.
Tom Armitage on Vimeo
Tom talks about “Things Rules Do.”
ongoing by Tim Bray · Broken Links
Tim Bray calmly explains why hash-bang URLs are a very bad idea.
This is what we call “tight coupling” and I thought that anyone with a Computer Science degree ought to have been taught to avoid it.
isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Excellent, excellent analysis of how URLs based on fragment identifier (a la Twitter/Gawker/Lifehawker) expose an unstable tottering edifice that crumbles at the first JavaScript error.
So why use a hash-bang if it’s an artificial URL, and a URL that needs to be reformatted before it points to a proper URL that actually returns content?
Out of all the reasons, the strongest one is “Because it’s cool”. I said strongest not strong.
Tom Armitage on Vimeo
Things Rules Do is twenty minutes that looks at games of all forms, and the rules and systems that make their skeleton. It’s about the weird things that rules can do, beyond “tell you how to play”, such as inspire mastery, encourage deviance, and tell stories.
Repurposing the Hash Sign for the New Web
Documenting the use and abuse of fragment identifiers.
URL Design — Warpspire
An excellent collection of best practices for designing URLs. I found myself nodding vigorously along with each suggestion.
An Archaeological Approach to SETI
The search for Dyson spheres.
YQL now supports microformats! (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Yahoo's RESTful query language can now parse microformats. This is excellent news ...although I'm personally finding it tough to wrap my head around the documentation. It's certainly trickier than hKit but then, it's almost certainly more powerful too.
How Egypt, U.S. got all a-Twitter over Cal student - Inside Bay Area
Twitter for great justice!
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and its URL « Derivadow.com
A great article about designing for what Tom Coates calls a "web of data", emphasising the importance of making sure that a resource sits at one URL.
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!
Flickr Places. This is what George announced at dConstruct. It's enthralling: interestingness mashed up with geotagging.
Morethanseven » Brighton Rock(s)
The slides from Gareth Rushgrove's presentation at BarCamp Brighton. It's all about Restful Rabbits.
Scripting News: 12/20/2006: God bless the re-inventers
Dave Winer doesn't get JSON.
Flickr Services
You can now get responses from the Flickr API formatted as JSON.
iTunes Search API Around the Corner? - snook.ca
Jonathon has found some circumstantial evidence of an API for searching the iTunes music store. That could be really interesting. It might be fun to mash it up with Amazon's API.
gastronaut
A food blog based in Brighton. This is a woman after my own heart.
May I take your order?
A menu with some great Engrish translations like "burn the spring chicken", "domestic life beef immerses cabbage" and "a west bean pays the fish a soup".
REST web services interface :: Tagyu
As a follow-up to my post about Yahoo's term extractor, I should point out that Tagyu also has an API. It's RESTful and simple.
Stop & Search form for a photographer in Brighton
He took a picture of a building. Note the tick next to terrorism.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Suspicious behaviour on the tube
A truly frightening description of what can happen to any person in Britain today.
How to style a restaurant menu with CSS
A nice use of CSS.
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29 - Napoleon Dynamite, production
This is for real. The text of a bill being proposed in Idaho to commend Napoleon Dynamite "for showcasing the positive aspects of Idaho's youth, rural culture, education system, athletics, economic prosperity and diversity."