Link archive: December, 2006
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
The Man in Blue > Experiments > Web Coolness Calculator
Calculate your Web Coolness, courtesy of Cameron. Of course he couldn't resist one more jibe at me in there.
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Funny Farm
Fun with words. It's like an interconnected hangman.
The B-List: I can't believe it's not XML!
Great explanatory article by James Bennett comparing JSON and XML.
Scripting News: 12/20/2006: God bless the re-inventers
Dave Winer doesn't get JSON.
18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility - Wait till I come!
Christian talks to Aral and Niqui about Flash and accessibility.
XML and the Next Web (and the Previous...) - O'Reilly XML Blog
Simon St. Laurent writes about the victory of JSON over XML in the browser and looks forward to a future filled with XQuery.
Liminal Existence: The Weather, by Twitter.
A nifty mashup in which Twitter bots update twice a day with weather updates. I am now friends with Brighton Weather. I feel so in touch with nature.
It's real time at the same time - Los Angeles Times
An LA Times article that "gets" Twitter.
Q&A: Jyri Engestrom of Jaiku
An interview with the creator of Jaiku.
Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Great to see others talking about decentralized social networking
Marc Canter's been saying it for years: social networks for humans don't scale and lock-in is a no-no. I need to investigate People Aggregator.
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Google SOAP Search API
Users of the Google API take note: you're okay, but anyone else who wants to put Google search on their site is screwed.
Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.photos.getInfo
Users of the Flickr API take note: the path to images has changed.
CSS10: Ten Year Anniversary of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Happy tenth birthday, CSS.
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
YUI: CSS Grid Builder
A handy tool for creating grids using Yahoo's CSS.
Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (from Surrey Comet)
Read the comments for some great pest control ideas.
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Operator
A microformat detection extension for Firefox 2. This looks more human-friendly than the existing Tails extensions.
Thursday, December 14th, 2006
antigeek dot net » On setting appropriate security questions
A few ideas for security questions that had me laughing out loud.
mezzoblue § About Mezzoblue
Dave redesigns. And before I could bash him for his wide fixed width layout, he went and added a Jeremy Keith Button® on his about page that toggles between liquid and fixed. Cheeky bugger.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
Pie Chart (JavaScript edition)
Dmitry built an incredibly cool JavaScript pie chart. It also integrates with Flickr using Ajax to do a Flickr version of googlefight. Great stuff!
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Dear JavaScript Library Developers… - Wait till I come!
Christian's wish list for JavaScript libraries.
matt | movie
What a great idea for a birthday celebration: a one-off screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley. The signing up process is powered by Event Wax.
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
StitchyMcYarnPants.com
The Museum of Kitschy Stitches: a gallery of notorious knits. Just in time for Christmas.
Rare Exports Finland - Google Video
A behind-the-scenes look at a Christmas tradition. I always suspected as much.
Friday, December 8th, 2006
Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
Kathy Sierra doesn't like Twitter. Join us, Kathy... be a lover, not a hater.
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
rikrikrik: Wasted Javascript
How much page weight is being wasted on JavaScript. It's time to shed those pounds.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Wordie
Like Flickr, but without the photos. This, I like.
Monday, December 4th, 2006
SimpleBits
Dan has redesigned his site and it looks gorgeous.
CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE! -- stickers in support of evolution
Brilliant! I need to get some sticker paper so I can print out this picture and put it on my laptop.
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
» Google Earth …
Reality imitating Google Maps in Berlin.
MOON RIVER: gentlemen's pocket globes
I want one of these for Christmas.
Multiple CSS background images
Got Safari? Try resizing this page.
Free games -- Asteroid's Revenge
The worm turns. Play the part of an asteroid trying to crash into spaceships.
Friday, December 1st, 2006
24 ways: 2006
It's baaa-aaaack!
www.steve.museum - Home
An experiment in social tagging of art museum collections
mixd. 445566.
Yahoo have created a Twitter alternative... but they don't state anywhere on this site that it's US-only.