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Timorous Beasties wallpaper
Classical, timeless French toile - with contemporary London prints, 'Gherkin' and London Eye included. 100 pounds per 10m roll.
(tags: wallpaper london gherkin londoneye)

US hypoallergenic cats go on sale
These cats are not genetically modified cats but chosen because of a natural gene divergence in the DNA and selectively bred. Despite costing $3,950, there is [...]

Priceshout.com
UK-based price comparison website with a web 2.0 social software flavour, that allows you to track product's prices and monitor the changes and additions in your RSS reader.
(tags: online uk shopping social priceshout compare)

Dynamic Drive CSS Library
Practical CSS codes and examples for menus, forms, containers, links, buttons…
(tags: css libraries dynamic reference examples web design)

PSD2HTML
Hand-coded markup to any specification in under 8 hours.
(tags: business web design html markup xhtml css services)

The Oneseat campaign
It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. Online petition to have it located only in Brussels.
(tags: politics europe eu petitions campaigns parliaments brussels strasbourg)

'Pack-a-day crisp habit' [...]

Bordee
New free service, built with Ruby on Rails, that lets anyone create a topic-specific message board for any domain name/web page on the internet.
(tags: application free social messages boards bordee rubyonrails)

Vintage Star Trek gets digital facelift
'CBS Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS, is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show's 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-generated graphics.'
(tags: television cgi specialeffects startrek tv series)

Optimal width for 1024px resolution is 960
After you account for browser chrome and scrollbars, it turns [...]

Doctor Who spin-off set for CBBC
'The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC will star Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith opposite Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker between 1973 and 1976.'
(tags: doctorwho drwho elisabethsladen sarahjanesmith tombaker bbc cbbc spinoffs scifi sciencefiction)

UK immigration database
'7.5% of people living in Britain were born abroad. You can find out where [...]

Global obese now outnumber global malnourished
'globally, there are one billion overweight adults, and 300 million of them are obese; in contrast, about 800 million do not have enough to eat.'
(tags: nutrition statistics obese overweight weight fitness)

Architecting CSS
A few methods to maintain and organise large and complex CSS files
(tags: css stylesheets design web tutorials)

Tab Mix Plus
'Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.'
(tags: firefox mozilla tabs tabmixplus browsers plugins tools)

Nutrients and phytochemicals reference database
Information about the healing power of foods, searchable by nutrient or by condition.
(tags: eating food nutrition nutrients vitamins supplements health conditions)

The alternative dictionaries
Slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all the world, from Acadian to Zulu.
(tags: languages dictionaries funny profanities slang swearing)

TrackMeNot
Lightweight Firefox extension that interferes with data profiling and surveillance by [...]

Concert ticket generator
Just enter some text and click the 'Go' button. A picture of a concert ticket will be generated for you.
(tags: concerts gigs generators tickets fun)

The web developer's list of resources
Very extensive list of links, with the option to highlight interesting ones for future visits (if cookies are enabled).
(tags: ajax database design lists programming [...]

Doctor Who spin-off 'cancelled'
Series producer and writer Russell T Davies decided the programme, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was "a spin-off too far" and called it off.
(tags: doctorwho drwho rosetyler billiepiper russelltdavies tv television scifi sciencefiction)

Farecast launches for 55 US cities
Price history, predictions and buy/wait recommendations for flights departing from 55 US cities. RSS feeds available.
(tags: aggregator airline bargains cheap search shopping travel web)

Michael Tolliver lives
The 'Tales of the City' character is now 52 and living with HIV. Armistead Maupin says this is not a sequel to 'Tales' or Book 7 in the series. Out Summer 2007.
(tags: literature talesofthecity michaeltolliver michaeltolliverlives armisteadmaupin books gay)

Absolut Cut
Pre-mixed bottled drink by Absolut: vodka, soda water and natural citrus juices. If it's [...]

Netvibes secures a USD15 million investment
Netvibes' online ajax desktop has made my life incredibly simpler, and I wish it the widespread mainstream success it deserves.
(tags: ajax desktop web2.0 netvibes homepage investments)

CSS3 preview
A showcase of new functions and features that are being thought up for CSS3.
(tags: browsers css web css3 stylesheets)

Phlash - universal cameraphone flash
12 times [...]

How not to give away personal data
Delete search engine cookies, search via an anonymous proxy or switch to search engines that claim not to record data such as www.ixquick.com and http://clusty.com.
(tags: searchengines search google ixquick clusty data personal)

Evaluating website accessibility
Series of articles intended to make it easier for non-experts to perform a basic website standards [...]

Kate Bush to collaborate with OutKast
Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton of OutKast announced that he'd been invited by his musical heroine Kate Bush to 'camp out' at her house and collaborate on tracks for his forthcoming solo album.
(tags: katebust outkast music pop collaborations)

Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story
Todd Haynes' cult-status short film about Carpenter told with Barbie dolls. Unsurprisingly sued by Mattel, A&M Records and the Carpenter family.
(tags: karencarpenter thecarpenters barbiedolls barbie music films cult toddhaynes)

Better Living Through Design
Links to unusual, modern, sustainable and (mostly) affordable design.
(tags: design architecture gadgets modern)

The Brit Pack
A bunch of designers and developers who share a passion for web standards and accessibility.
(tags: designers developers web standards accessibility)

Oxford Dictionaries FAQ on words
Answers to questions such as 'Is there an English word with two consecutive u's?' and [...]

The Eggcorn Database
A site devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.
(tags: language eggcorns misspellings english databases)

AOL releases private data without users' permission
'The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box.'
(tags: data internet search privacy users aol)

blinkx.tv
'Search [...]

Google Research to share enormous dataset
Google Research will soon announce that they will make their trillion words available to the public in 6 DVDs.
(tags: google googleresearch dataset data n-gram public searchengines)

Flickr to offer drag and drop geotagging?
A new option briefly appeared, then was removed, that enables Flickr users to tag photos with their locations by [...]

Universal launches new CD packaging
Scissor Sisters' new album 'Ta-Dah!' will be among the first albums released on Sept. 18th in a new Super Jewel Box case (stronger and more durable).
(tags: scissorsisters ta-dah! universal cd jewelcase packaging music albums)

Google Accessible Search launches
Search tool designed to 'identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable [...]

Netvibes introduces Meebo module
A single login to NetVibes (online Ajax desktop) can now also log you into all your IM accounts through Meebo.
(tags: im netvibes meebo ajax desktop)

Foxit Reader for Windows
Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents that loads in a fraction of the time Adobe Reader takes to open.
(tags: [...]

ZoomClouds
Free customisable RSS feed-based tag clouds ready to be pasted into your website in minutes.
(tags: tagclouds tags zoomclouds metadata rss feeds websites)

BBC backstage wins New Statesman New Media award for innovation
Backstage is an open source developer network launched in July 2005 to encourage innovation, identify talent and spark creative use of the BBC generated content.
(tags: [...]

T-mobile download manager
Links to software upgrades for T-mobile PDAs and SDAs.
(tags: pdas sdas tmobile downloads phones cellphones mobilephones upgrades software firmware)

Google Maps Mobile
Free beta service that offers optimised and customised Google Maps for most mobile phones. Not available in the UK yet.
(tags: google maps mobilephones cellphones phones)

How to size text with CSS
A one-paragraph tip for [...]

Date set for Doctor Who spin-off
The BBC confirms that Torchwood will launch on BBC Three in late autumn.
(tags: doctorwho drwho spinoff bbc torchwood tv scifi johnbarrowman captainjack)

Colour contrast analyser
Online tool to check the contrast of two colours using the W3C's algorythm.
(tags: accessibility colours online tools usability)

Thingtagging
Pictures of objects registered with thinglink and thingtagged on Flickr.
(tags: [...]

Language Log: The book for your linguist lover
Limits of Language by Mikael Parkvall is 'stuffed with linguistic trivia and facts and dates and lists and ephemera and exotica (and a linguist joke or two…)'
(tags: languages linguistics books)

'Independent Woman' played by kittens
Check out the tiniest cutest kitten at the xylophone. Cover version by Elbow.
(tags: independendwomen destinyschild [...]

CoComment upgrades, now worth using
CoComment now tracks all comments made after yours - not just those made by other registered CoComment users.
(tags: comments tracking cocomment)

BBC defends another 'gay' comment
After defending Chris Moyles, the broadcaster now says the negative use of 'gay' in Top Gear was not malicious.
(tags: gay bbc chrismoyles topgear broadcasting)

Free dynamic web widgets
HTML [...]

20 pro web dev tips
The quintessential rules I try to adhere to when building websites, in handy concise reference format.
(tags: webdevelopment webdesign coding websites reference tips)

Blog comment form design showcase
A collection of creative form designs. Also links to a similar showcase for blog comment designs.
(tags: blogs forms css design webdesign comments)

Learn CSS positioning in ten [...]

tapedeck.org
Online collection of analog audio tapes, guaranteed to bring back memories to anyone over twenty.
(tags: tapes design gun audio cassettes)

Website readability test
Check how readable your website is by parsing it through the Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid algorithms.
(tags: readability accessibility tests usability content language writing)

Min/max width with IE-expressions
How to use Microsoft-proprietary javascript to [...]

DIY Kyoto's Wattson
A beautiful gadget that measures energy consumption, shows cost per year and lights up differently as you turn appliances on or off. 350GBP, made to order.
(tags: design environment watson diykyoto interactive)

Photoshop tutorial: taped down sheet of paper
Photoshop tutorial on how to create a sheet of paper whose angles are stuck together with tape.
(tags: [...]