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Briefly Noted in December date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Tax deadline extended
So it wasn't just me, heavy traffic did take down the Netfile site
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iPhone really coming to Canada
After months of speculation and rumour Canada will get its Roger's enabled iPhone
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Sticky, viral, and friendly
Yahoo's new strategy should be embraced by more Web companies
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Mobile screen sizes
Think big, as the new minimum looks to be 240 x 320
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Web page sizes triple
The average Web page file size is now ore than 312Kb and calls nearly 50 objects.
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MediaWiki API
The recipe for getting all the good data from the Wikipedia
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Online karma
After laying off its online production department, is it a surprise that TheStar.com's news coverage suffers?
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TTC strike summary
Torontoist has an excellent overview of the short-lived transit strike.
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CSS Variables
Most definitely not a W3C proposal, but one every Web designer would love to see implemented.
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Opera gets a JavaScript debugger
Dragonfly will be Opera's delayed response to tools like Firebug
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Defining the Web design elite
nGen's doing it one cartoony face at a time.
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Thank Twitter
Good post to counter some negative sentiment, even if 37signals has undeclared bias in the debate
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Calculating hours
Good advice on pricing the project management part of design work.
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McDonald's mocks Starbucks
How many layers of irony can you see in the McDonald's espresso ad spotted in Seattle?
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Curley leaving WaPo?
Rumours are Tob Curley will be heading to the Django-powered Las vegas Sun.
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Web Directions North podcasts up
The podcasts from the speakers at Web Directions North 2008 at our now online, and offer some great listening.
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Torstar elimintates Internet staff
The entire Internet production staff at the Toronto Star has been laid-off.
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Facebook "trends"
Facebook unveils a new service showing comparing what terms people are talking about on the site.
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Today's front pages
Collect the Newseum's newspaper front pages into one document.
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Testing the mobile Web
Similar to the Acid tests, the W3C has unveiled a Web standards test for mobile browsers -- none fully pass it.
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"Ouimet" calls it quites
The anonymous CBC manager who began by blogging about the strike, signs off
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CSS Gradients
WebKit now does gadients, but at what price inter-operability?
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Load the scripts you need
A simple script that will dynamically request only the JavaScripts required by the page.
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A decade of Black Flag hair
The American harcore band's coif stylings
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The new Musseum station
ROM-inspired look is better than expected, especially the station name on the walls.
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Webby nominees for 2008
The Globe and Mail and the CBC are both up for one.
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Bumbershoot 2008 lineup
Seattle's amazing music and arts festival unveiled some of the performers scheduled to appear
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Design Coding
The Web Standardista's new rap.
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The EveryBlock issue of A List Apart
Two great articles from the folks at Holovaty's hyper local company
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Google Maps as a narrative tool
Good, fiction that experiments with the Web's new user experiences.
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ISO to define UX
Apparently,there is to be an International Standard for Human Centred Design that codifies user experience.
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Canadian newspapers healthy
Differences between Canada and the U.S., number 301
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Conversations as the new stats
Probably not new to most bloggers, but increasingly important for news sites to realize.
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Better Toronto transit site
An effective, well-designed Google Map mashup showing transit stops and parking lots in the Toronto area.
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JavaScript "TimeMachine"
An early effort to duplicate the Mac OS's TimeMachine effect in JavaScript
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Visualizng rhythms of text
Stefanie Posavec has created some stunning work inspired by "On The Road"
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CSS compatibility and IE
A comprehensive guide to what is and is not supported in the various versions of Internet Explorer.
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Defining the Open Web
Brad Neuberg helps explain what it means and explains why it is important.
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Best news photo gallery
A couple of my co-workers work was chosen as the NPAA's Best of Photojournalism for 2008
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