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  1. 6 January

    Twitter Charts #

    Sweet Yahoo! Pipes and Google Charts Twitter mashup showing tweet distribution and frequency. I seem to tweet more in the mornings; there’s a hotspot just before lunch on a Friday, presumably due to free lunch excitement and ensuing replies from jealous tweople.

  2. Stay in Shape with Countdowns #

    One of my new year resolutions is to exercise more, but this sounds just a little too extreme for me right now. Plus an uninterrupted 20 minutes is a little far-fetched with three small children in the house…

  3. 5 January

    Compare the Meerkat #

  4. A Better 404 - Redux #

    Jonathan Hollin on improving your 404 page by interrogating the referrer and suggesting possible matches for search queries.

  5. 4 January

    Co-op #

    Another Twitter clone aimed at in-house teams. I’ve been trying to get my co-workers interested in Twitter, but it’s difficult to explain the benefits of ambient intimacy in an office environment. wink

  6. 1 January

    New Watchmen footage #

    Some new clips from the hopefully upcoming Watchmen movie, and Zack Snyder talking a little about the actors and the film.

  7. 29 December

    State of Performance 2008 #

    Steve “YSlow” Souders looks back at the last year with respect to website performance. Lots to digest here - Jiffy in particular will be getting a closer look once I’m back at work in the new year.

  8. 18 December

    Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips #

    Some useful little tips here - I’d never bothered to look into how to extend jQuery’s selector engine before, but now I know it’s so easy I might start.

  9. 16 December

    HTML-Ipsum #

    Yet another alternative lipsum generator, but this time it also comes as a convenient Mac app that sits in your dock. Unfortunately it looks like it just loads a web page, so still no use if you’re offline.

  10. 29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008 #

  11. gridr buildrrr #

    Nice JavaScripty grid creation tool - makes mine look a poor effort.

  12. 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks #

  13. 15 December

    The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes #

    Bookmarked.

  14. Effective A/B Testing #

    An interesting and very thorough look at the science of A/B testing online.

  15. 11 December

    Gestalt Principles of Perception: 1 - Figure Ground Relationships #

    Looks like the start of a very useful series on design principles; formal design training is the biggest gap in my skillset.

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  1. I have almost no nostalgia for the VHS format itself. With its springs and gears, each tape was built to fail. I can’t think of another technology that seemed so inelegant even when it was new.

    VHS, RIP (johnaugust.com)
  2. I’ve been thinking about this record for 15 years; during that span, I’ve thought about this record more than I’ve thought about China, and maybe as much as I’ve thought about the principles of democracy.

    Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy on The A.V. Club
  3. She has not yet declared she will stand in 2012, but this week did tell an interviewer she was awaiting a signal from God.

    Sarah Palin proving yet again why you would want to entrust the running of a country to her
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  5. We linger on such moments because movie stars are important to us. They represent an ideal form we are deluded to think exists inside of us. Paul Newman seemed to represent the best of what we could hope for.

    You wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothin’ - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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