National varieties of English in Wikipedia, or: Stop Arguing Over “Color” Versus “Colour,” Dammit, and Write Some Meaningful Articles.
Category: Links
Blanks on a Blank: a filmmaking challenge inspired by Snakes on a Plane. “When you sign up a team to participate in the challenge, our random generator will provide you with an animal and a vehicle. You’ve then got until August 3rd to completely finish a 2–5 minute original disaster movie that shows us all about how bad things can get when your BLANKS somehow make their way onto your BLANK.” I goddamned love Austin.
Travis Ruse is crazy‐good at taking pictures of the NYC Subway. This isn’t news, but after viewing this photo I think it bears repeating.
PixelGroovy. i use this. I take back what I said before: the next time someone asks me what “Web 2.0” means, I’ll say, “It’s about trying to become the Digg of a specific niche of an already‐insular community.”
Using Ajax for HTTP Authentication within an HTML form. Clever use of Ajax that transcends the buzzword phenomenon.
Perfect playthrough of Night Trap, one of the first games to use full‐motion‐video. This game seems like it was made just so that some schmuck would make fun of it on his blog twenty years later. As SeanBaby puts it: “Night Trap is exactly like switching between eight different channels — only at any time, seven on them are static shots of empty rooms and one is the worst show you’ve ever seen.”
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid. Some people are just awful at grammar, and that’s fine, but nailing down the ten things on this list will make a world of difference. Until blogs get copy editors, this will have to do.
var family = $$('ol#smith'); family.appendChild( document.createElement( 'li' ).setAttribute( 'id', 'jackson' ) ); Okay, I’m a geek. But Steve Smith is a father. Congratulations, Steve.
Breadcrumbs in Web Navigation. On breadcrumbs vs. the back button, one user said: “It’s safer to push ‘back’ because I know what I’ve seen. If I push this [breadcrumb link] I don’t know if I’m going to get what I got before. I don’t want to waste any time.” Moral: unless it’s a single‐page application, do not break the back button in your web app.
Dashcode has been rumored to exist for a while, but now we know for certain: it’s being bundled with new MacBooks, and some kind soul sent his copy to Cool OS X Apps. It’s way more robust than I expected. Breakpoints, easy interface building (complete with a library of “ooh shiny” components), a GUI for your widget’s PLIST file, and built‐in localization. This is awesome. I really ought to start working on version 2 of my Azureus widget.