£5 app: 5Kapp
5k.org is dead. Long live 5k.org. The people nehind Brighton's £5 App have announced a competition to create an application using only 5K (5120 bytes) of code and resources.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
All Together Now!: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
Schadenfreude by software. Every singe Zune on the face of the planet froze at exactly the same moment.
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Google, Microsoft, Apple sued over preview icons | Business Tech - CNET News
Further proof, as if any were needed, that the patent system turns into a steaming pile of shit as soon as it has dealings with software.
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
The Ten Days of Newton - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com
On the tenth day of Newton, My true love gave to me, Ten drops of genius, Nine silver co-oins, Eight circling planets, Seven shades of li-ight, Six counterfeiters, Cal-Cu-Lus! Four telescopes, Three Laws of Motion, Two awful feuds, And …
MaxMind - GeoIP Javascript Web Service
A JavaScript API that returns location information based on IP.
Twitter-enhanced Dérive « Magical Nihilism
London becomes Everyware.
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Your Next Favourite Band
One of the runners-up in the Last.fm hackday, this is a simple little service that tells you what band you should be listening to.
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Douglas Crockford: "Ajax Performance" on Yahoo! Video
An excellent overview of Ajax and optimisation.
gridr buildrrr
A handy tool for planning grids. Limited, alas, to pixels.
Maybe the effort we go to as we think about the... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind
"Facebook has rolled out an identity system — Facebook Connect — with a slick UI that trains a gazillion tech-naïve users to slap their identity credentials into any old website."
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
HTML-Ipsum
Lorem ipsum text pre-wrapped in HTML tags.
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
adactio's Songcolours
Matt's bit of fun from the Last.fm hackday. Hannah's had the best generated lyric juxtaposition, "love drunk home fuck good night."
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
Bean is a free word processor for OS X. Looks nice and simple.
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
W3C Validator Donation Program
The W3C validator—one of the most valuable tools in the web developer toolkit—is in danger. Please help out. And please spread the word.
A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
This article is an oldie but a goodie. I find myself referring to it all the time: "Beating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography."
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
SitePoint » 4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site
A rundown of microformat-extracting tools. "Ultimately, microformats are a bit like plumbing. They don’t do very much on their own, but if you make use of the data they provide, you can quickly and easily create useful functionality your visitors …
24 ways: A Christmas hCard From Me To You
A great 24 Ways article by Elliot on creating and styling hCards.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
USBCell Batteries
You've seen stacks of fun but utterly useless USB-friendly peripherals, so how about we show you something practical for a change? Introducing USBCells, pioneering batteries that are recharged via (yes, you guessed it) USB.
Monday, December 8th, 2008
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 - The Big Picture - Boston.com
An advent calendar from the Hubble telescope. Check back every day for a new image.
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Music Till I Die
Fellow Powncers: authenticate here before December 15th to partake of the musical love that has been shared.
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP
There are, apparently, entire subcategories of cuteness.
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
jCquard: The Do Less, Punch More JavaScript Library
This is certainly the most backwards-compatible JavaScript library out there.
IESB Sues Over Unauthorized Use of Spy Photo in Iron Man - Film Junk
Here's a depressing counterpoint to my feel-good story about Iron Man: someone else who's picture was used in the film (in good faith) decided to sic the lawyers on Jon Favreau.
Platitude of the Day
A satirical parody of the BBC's "Thought for the Day". Slightly cruel, mostly funny and entirely brilliant.
Welcome | Sifter
Garrett has launched his bug-tracking web app. Looks lovely.
PHP Advent Calendar 2008
Like 24 Ways, this is an advent calendar for geeks. But this one is focused on PHP.
Ficlets Est Mort :: UltraNormal
Ficlets is a labour of love. AOL would rather see Ficlets dead than allow it to live on elsewhere. AOL is being a dick.
The Whale Hunt / A storytelling experiment / by Jonathan Harris
An experiment in human storytelling, using a photographic heartbeat of 3,214 images to document an Eskimo whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The Grid System
The Grid System is a resource for all designers to learn about the benefits of using grid systems, golden ratios and baseline grids.
Play Auditorium
A beautiful and enthralling physics-based puzzle game.
jewellrey - a set on Flickr
Beautiful steampunk jewellry.
Say “No” to Starbucks on St James’s Street | Clagnut § Brighton · War & Politics
Starbucks has opened a branch in Brighton by disregarding planning permission, ignoring planning laws, and by asserting is not in fact a café or coffee shop but a retail outlet.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Vimeo Toys
Interactive visualizations of what's happening right now.
Kansas City Space Pirates - Home
A team competing in NASA's beamed power climber competition—a race to provide one of the technologies needed for building a space elevator. I doff my hat to these guys.
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Best of 2008 – Last.fm
End of the year charts based on real data: "Based entirely on your scrobbling, this is a real look at what you've been listening to (not just buying). The charts are ranked by total number of listeners."
The Pownce Blog » Blog Archive » Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart
The good news: Leah and Mike are going to be working at Six Apart. The bad news: Pownce is shutting down.
Copyright Policy | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
The official website of the Obama-Biden presidential transition team is switching over to using a Creative Commons attribution licence. This bodes very well indeed.
Graphic Design and typography - Swiss Legacy » Type Trumps
Top Trumps with typefaces.
24 ways: 2008
Rejoice! 24 Ways is back again. Prepare for 24 days of web development articles.