overplot
This is an astoundingly brilliant mashup: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps. It's fan-bloody-tastic and remarkably fast for all the data it contains.
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Max Kiesler - How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles
A lot of these articles are more about JavaScript in general than Ajax per se, but it's good to have all these resources gathered together in one place.
This is Availabot (Schulze & Webb)
I think we should get Availabots for Clearleft. I want little toys of Richard and Andy connected to my home machine. Dance, Andy! Dance, Richard!
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
YouTube - Sam Jackson Vs. Yoda
More Sam Jackson goodness.
YouTube - Someone tell Sam Jackson he's my bro
The best U2 parody you will ever see.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
callto: tel @ Make Data Make Sense
A greasemonkey script that allows you to call telephone numbers in web pages (marked up with hcard) using Skype.
Redshirt Knitting - Erika’s Knitting Blog » Tree Sweater
The incredible story of the tree sweater in Seattle.
Cute Overload: Stop the insanity
A picture of a squirrel looking very pleased with its apparel.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
Jon's mock-ups of how microformat detection and display might work in Safari are spot on. It would be so cool if this idea was picked up by browser developers.
The JavaScript Library World Cup [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]
Dan Webb does an excellent job of comparing the big four JavaScript libraries that were discussed at @media.
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Hitler cats!
You can't invoke Godwin's Law on this one: cats that look like Hitler.
iPop My Baby
Elsa's OddzBallz are now available on baby t-shirts. Cute!
Monday, June 19th, 2006
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Planet]
Planet Microformats: Brian aggregates blog posts, upcoming events, del.icio.us links and Flickr pics tagged with 'microformats' (which means this link will also appear there... I mean here).
Card sorting pix
Flickr photo set, AIGA card sorting exercise.
From the Other Side of the Microscope
Participating in a card-sorting exercise for the AIGA redesign.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Textblog: German Lessons for World Cup Visitors
This brings back memories: the German equivalents of "it's a game of two halves" and "they think it's all over; it is now."
The Adventures of Cindy Li
Cindy redesigns... with standards. Gorgeous!
Sunday, June 11th, 2006
SimpleBits | Pairing Wine and Microformats
Dan documents the process of adding microformats to Cork'd.
Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Grease Monkey Graphic Novel
Read the first two chapters of Tim Eldred's graphic novel online.
EepyBird.com - Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment
A recreation of the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas using nothing but diet coke and mentos. Mesmerising.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - Picture This: Common Sense
This is ridiculous. Target refuses to print a customer's pictures because they look "too professional."
Devlounge | Cameron Adams aka The Man In Blue
Cameron shares his thoughts on Ajax, Hijax, libraries and having fun.
ToothlessTiger » Blog Archive » Show us your bedroll!
Looks like I've started a meme.
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Cheat Sheets for the YUI Utilities » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
If you use the Yahoo JavaScript libraries a lot, these cheat sheets (inspired by those of fellow Brightonian, Dave Childs) should come in very handy.
CcPublisher 2 - CcWiki
This is a tool for embedding licensing information in files (like MP3s). I'm going to try this out and see how it goes.
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Twenty Major - still smoking in Dublin bars.
The best response yet to the O'Reilly Web 2.0 cease and desist debacle.
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Technorati Kitchen: Microformats Search
This is still experimental, but Technorati now allow you to search for snippets of content that has been marked up with microformats. My egosearching returns suitably satisfying results.
imity
This is really cool: a real-time map of bluetooth devices currently at the Reboot conference.