Category: Snapping links

• Timeline | drupal.org
  beautiful JS timeline widget, integrated into a module. neat! (want to use for a history project.)
• IE6 Countdown
  "This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide" – made by Microsoft!
• HarperCollins to libraries: we will nuke your ebooks after 26 checkouts – Boing Boing
  "DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it’s a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."

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• Open Web Analytics
  something to keep an eye on.
• IE CSS Optimizer | drupal.org
  o hey. this could be just the thing for the test site.
• HTML5 Rocks – Quick hits with the Flexible Box Model
  wow. I mean, just, wow. (not HTML5, but whatevs.)
• Trains, Planes, and Automobiles – NYTimes.com
  Reasonable thoughts abt modes over long distances. (Similar charts could be made for short distances w/bike, bus, walk, drive.)
• Mom and Pop, At Web Scale – Anil Dash
  Scaling, community, and business w/out VC.
• Pathfinder: Understanding Your Party Makeup – EN World: D&D / RPG News & Reviews
  Playing with a mix of classes other than the assumed set. A small point, but interesting

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• Neighbors Helping NeighborGoods by Micki Krimmel — Kickstarter

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• Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery » JavaScript & CSS » SitePoint Blogs
  this was a REALLY useful tutorial. I may be doing something fun soon!
• {placekitten}
  what it says: placeholder images of kittens!
• Distributed Social Networks – a comic (PDF)
  nice simple explanation!
• Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : JavaScript and screenreaders
  "98.4% of screenreader users had JavaScript enabled" – no kidding. BUT…still usability/accessibility issues, and "small percentages of big numbers are also big numbers"

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• The eBook User’s Bill of Rights | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan

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• Oatmeal Crisps — Delishhh

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• CSS organization tip 1: Flags | stopdesign
  I’m totally using this now.

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• A Curry Obsession – Pure Hunger
• Matt Stoller: The Liquidation of Society versus the Global Labor Revival « naked capitalism
  "People might only like unions when they see strikes, otherwise all they hear about is backroom negotiations. Perhaps effectively striking is actually the way to force people to ask questions about what kind of country they want to live in."
• Angela Byron on Drupal 7 | Linux Journal
  how awesome is that? really awesome. (also, according to adrienek (sp?) she’s the first woman to ever appear on the cover of Linux Journal.)
• Calling Out Gendered Advertising » Sociological Images
  Awesome! (My mom learned how to build a laser when she went back to school.)

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• Apple iTunes gifts users with a privacy hole – O’Reilly Radar
  which, hey, might even be against the law, thx to Robert Bork! (also, Amazon doesn’t have this problem; I’ve wondered about that before.)

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• Aldiko Customer Support : Read eBooks from public libraries
  have to download a non-epub file onto the computer, put it on the SD card, and then load. can’t directly load the epub file from the Overdrive folder. 🙁 I am actually liking Aldiko as a reader and was curious what the Overdrive books looked like there.
• Todolist | drupal.org
• RGBa & HSLa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer | Journal | Kimili
  I actually don’t think I even knew you could do that. kewl.
• Much of Rural America Still Struggles With Broadband Access – NYTimes.com
  sweet that the local library leaves their wifi on all night so people can get online in the parking lot.
• National Broadband Map

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