5 hours agoamused at Carsonified charging the same amount for a desk as you would pay for a 1-bed flat in Bath.
If you’re the sort of person that enjoys poking around in other people’s code, you’ll have already noticed that this site is built with HTML5, the latest and greatest and very much still in-progress flavour of HTML.
As Jeremy noted the other day, that decision has placed me in pretty lofty company this week.
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“Thanks for commenting, Jeremy - I had wondered why Huffduffer didn’t use…” (on Fun and games and audio and video with HTML5)
“Safari’s implementation of the audio element has a big drawback for me.
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“excellent new design Matthew, I like the stream of data on the homepage and the…” (on Redesign 2009)
The Watchmaker Project is the weblog and online project playground of web designer and internet know-it-all, Matthew Pennell. If you're at all interested in knowing about Matthew: He's 34, tall and skinny, and married. His favourite colour is green, and the way he spells 'favourite' and 'colour' should tell you that he is from the UK.
(If you're really interested in knowing even more, check out the About page on this 'ere very site. Or, if you want to work with me, try my freelance portfolio to see what I can do.)
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.
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…
Jonathan Hollin on improving your 404 page by interrogating the referrer and suggesting possible matches for search queries.
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. 
Some new clips from the hopefully upcoming Watchmen movie, and Zack Snyder talking a little about the actors and the film.
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.
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.
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.
Nice JavaScripty grid creation tool - makes mine look a poor effort.
Bookmarked.
An interesting and very thorough look at the science of A/B testing online.
Looks like the start of a very useful series on design principles; formal design training is the biggest gap in my skillset.
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)
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
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
Beta invites are the new hockey cards. Got it, got it, got it, need it…
Trade …On a Long Piece of String
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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