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Briefly Noted from May 2008

• Goodbye Gardiner

  A sizable chunk Toronto's downtown highway will finally be torn down (now if only Seattle could do the same with I-5)

  May 30 2008 at 5:29 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Seattle

• Phiculator

  Easily calculate the golden mean

  May 29 2008 at 4:57 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• IETester

  A Web designers dream: four versions of Internet Explorer in one interface

  May 29 2008 at 12:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Design

• Google Earth in a browser

  The new browser plug-in also reveals a JavaScript API to the system

  May 29 2008 at 11:02 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Search Engines

• Why HTML5's video tag is dumb

  Mike Chambers demos the efforts get Flash working with 'video' in HTML5

  May 28 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Why ads fail online

  A solid explanation on why traditional advertising models don't work online

  May 28 2008 at 1:46 AM EDT

  Topic: Advertising

• Google aves your scripts

  Google volunteers to cache popular JavaScript libraries

  May 27 2008 at 11:48 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CBC being spammed?

  Looks like someone if try to clog the CBC with nuisance information requests

  May 27 2008 at 8:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Journalism, Canada

• The New York Times API

  First RSS and now this: the newspaper of record is hoping to allow others to mash-up its archive in a very atomic way.

  May 27 2008 at 1:50 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology

• Translating Pork and Bean

  Weezer's new video broken do into its 24 parts

  May 23 2008 at 2:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Web Culture

• Jane's brand timeline

  A clever portrait of a day rendered by the brands (and identifiably Torontonian)

  May 23 2008 at 12:01 PM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Toronto

• NYTimes and "link journalism"

  Scott Karp shows how true online journalism can work

  May 23 2008 at 11:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Newsroom Barometer 2008

  A survey of a news editors throughout the globe on what they think online news trends will be

  May 23 2008 at 12:40 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Client-side storage without cookies

  Not really sure how this works, but it could come in very handy

  May 23 2008 at 12:34 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Canada finally gets movie downloads

  Bell Canada has stuck a deal that lets Canadians rent movies online for too much money

  May 22 2008 at 11:30 PM EDT

  Topics: Movies, Canada

• Translating Twitter's explanation

  News.com has a clever parsing of Twitter's explanation of its outages

  May 22 2008 at 8:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Social Media, Web Technology

• TimesMachine replaces microfiche

  If you don't know what microfiche is, then just know this is the far better way to browse old newspapers

  May 22 2008 at 1:25 PM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Web Technology

• Virtual hosting into Parallels

  Simple how-to for viewing locally hosted Web sites in a Mac and Windows environment

  May 22 2008 at 11:57 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Computers

• "3.0" jumps the shark

  William Morris has launched a new division called Agency 3.0

  May 21 2008 at 2:17 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Love hates Cobain

  Nirvana is reuniting for Sub Pop's 20th anniversary show. In Redmond, WA. Home of Microsoft. No more should be said.

  May 21 2008 at 1:48 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Webmonkey is back!

  The best Web building site of the '90s has been resurrected

  May 19 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Web Resources

• Over simplifying it

  The 37signas entry on the best design agency site is right; the inspirational site however is an absolute joke (it is a joke, right?)

  May 19 2008 at 11:44 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Capitol Hill Arts Center moving

  The CHAC is leaving its current location and hoping to buy its own; Crave stays, though

  May 19 2008 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topic: Seattle

• Type: Metallophile Sp8

  Looking at 1950s era flash cards on Saturday, I wished for a digital version of that printed lettering - here it is.

  May 19 2008 at 11:09 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Political fonts

  Explaining the power of type in political campaigns

  May 16 2008 at 4:22 PM EDT

  Topic: Politics

• Visualizing concept groups

  How to visually present similarity and the relevance of a Web search result set

  May 15 2008 at 12:25 PM EDT

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• AGO logos over time

  The new one strains my eyes, Bruce Mau did a far better job in 1997

  May 15 2008 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topics: Ontario, Toronto

• Credit card logos

  A collection to fit just about any design need

  May 15 2008 at 11:55 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• CBS gets CNET and the best domains

  PaidConent.org notes the amazing domain names CBS gets with its US$1.8B CNET purchase

  May 15 2008 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Journalism

• Cubescape

  Build anything with isometric boxes jQuery thanks to Cameron Adams

  May 15 2008 at 11:06 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Culture