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* o GlobeAuto o Careers o Classifieds o Newspaper Ads o Personals o Real Estate Click here to find out more! Canadians react
Interactive showing how Canadian premiers and Globe and Mail readers feel about the crisis of confidence in the House of Commons
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Green browsing
The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint
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The Grid System
A resource for everything related to using grids in design
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Agile for design
How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design
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Data cleaner
A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data
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Pownce says goodbye
The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline
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Summarizing the poitical sentiment
Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones
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Helvetireader
Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)
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New Google Map controls
Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls
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The Souvenir Shop
Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers
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Discover related keywords
Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords
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All-in-one browser
One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing
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Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America
In-flight Wi-Fi
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New ideas for newspapers
Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.
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Skewing images with JavaScript
A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript
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Making decisions about user research
Eight questions to ask when debating when to do research
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News site design trends
Overview of the current design looks of news sites (include my place of employ)
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Lessons learned about iPhone sites
Good insights from the folks at Flickr about how to design an optimized mobile site
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Gmail vs. Skype
Google introduces video chatting to its Gmail messaging service
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ClusterShot
Silverorange launches a new service that allows you to be your own stock photography agency
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Buy pieces of BSG
Props and costumes from Battlestar Galatica are being auctioned off. Tempting...
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Hipster apocalypse
A "now hiring" sign at American Apparel store sparks an inspired rant
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U.S. election night homepages
An amazing collection how major news sites looked every 30 minutes on November 4, 2008
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Mathew Ingram and community
The hardest working blogger in Canada is now heading up The Globe and Mail's community efforts
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Less national Post
The National Post continues to whither in relevance as a relevant newspaper in Canada
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CS Monitor replacing print with Web
The 100-year-old news organization will cease publication of its printed newspaper in April 2009
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Delaying JavaScript execution
A simple script to delay the execution of JavaScript when event's fire
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NYTimes.com visualization lab
Equating it with reader comments, The New York Times invites readers to create their own visualizations of its data
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Cameras for guns
The Toronto police are running an amnesty that offers Nikon Coolpix cameras for illegal handguns
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Multi-touch Firefox
The gestures don't sound intuitive, but its a nice start to browsing the Web with your fingers
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Typocalypse
A series of images revealing what a typeface really says
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CSS3 via JavaScript
Eric Meyer sees JavaScript as a way to boot-strap CSS3 support in browsers
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TimesTags
Millions of folksonomists rejoice at the availability of tagged NYTimes.com content
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Progressive Enhancement with CSS
Excellent documenting a lot of the CSS tricks used to serve up style to browsers
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100E2R
Terrific case for having big, onscreen text
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3D cube in JavaScript
The simple approach could be a foundation for an impressive parallax effect
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Experience Design Manifesto
Manifesto that uses the phrase "happiness" always concern me, but there are some kernels of potential in this
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Why newspapers endorse political parties
J-Source looks into this more and more contentious concept
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Is that an endorsement?
The Globe and Mail sort of, kind of, backs Stephen Harper for prime minister
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Sans Seriffee
Map of the tiny archipelago discovered by English years ago
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Culture in Danger
The extended, English-subtitled, of a political video that is, truly, laugh-out-loud, funny
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ALA@10
A List Apart is a decade old, and the proprietor looks back on the institution
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary: RIP
The entire staff has been laid-off putting the dictionary's future in grave doubt
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Twittering rumours
Mathew Ingram has a honest, introspective piece on the responsibility of journalists on Twitter
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Poitical sound bites
Jumping to key words in the U.S. debate (like Wall St.) videos exposes how prepped candidates are
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The Canadian political view
"Capitalist free marketers, but believe in collective action, largely through governments, to achieve social, economic, environmental and other aims."
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Homezilla
Awkward name for a good service designed to let home buyers discover the amenities in a neighbourhood
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10 tips to solidify your business
Advice for start-ups is also good for any company/business to consider
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The case for designing differently
Andy Clarke argues that progressive enhancement is what we should be doing with CSS to move designs beyond IE6
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Canadian electoral map
Map of Canadian ridings uses colours to indicate which party is leading where
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electopinion.ca
The Canadian election as reported on Twitter - very engaging
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David Foster Wallace in Harper's
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
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WSJ.com redesigns
A big redesign from a site that hasn't in a long while
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Announcing the "Web Foundation"
Tim Berners-Lee introduces a foundation designed to support the open Web
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All about HTML's alt
With argument like this, it's no wonder HTML5 will take so long
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David Foster Wallace dead
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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ONA win for The Globe and Mail
Ironically, the news is nowhere to be found online yet (even the Twitter account is quiet - I learned via email)
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Sample dating pop-culture
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
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The logic of HTML5
Understanding HTML5 issues (e.g., video, alt, 2022) is a lot easier if you know Ian Hickson's online persona
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Regulating the Internet
A CRTC requested report has some ideas for regulating and funding the Canadian Internet
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Resurfacing newspapers
Google plans to scan in old newspapers (including one from Quebec) to make them more publicly available.
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Microsoft's CSS extensions
IE8 does include support for some CSS3 properties, and will continue to support filters and extensions - but only in a W3C compliant way.
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Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
"A Web-based newswire that makes it easy for journalists and newsrooms to gather, publish, and distribute links to the best news on the Web"
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Globe's election site critiqued
Wrong sentiment, right questions. Elections sites, though, are hard to do well especially when factoring in extenuating (unspoken) circumstances.
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Everything you wanted to know about browser user-agent strings*
* But were afraid to ask
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Google Chrome's story
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
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Shadows coming to Firefox
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
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Drag and drop with canvas
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Mobile Safari doubles usage
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
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Google Chrome
Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites
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Seattle tech start-ups
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
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Toronto-area tech start-ups
A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies
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Ubiquity in depth
Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"
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Mad Men Twittering
Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising
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DIY Bumbershoot schedule
The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest
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jParallax
Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect
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Fostering creativity
Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce
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Bullets over Osssington
My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle
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Dube leaves CBC for ABC News
CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site
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Experimental rounded corners
Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG
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EveryBlock in eight cities
The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)
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The Better Way
TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp
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How to cover breaking news
Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story
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08/08/08
The crazy 8s
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jMetronome
A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm
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Flick navigation on the iPhone
Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone
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Creating great search results
Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do
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Box office for 2008 visualized
Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML
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Implementing canvas
There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects
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iPhone events
Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind
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The new "delicious"
Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover
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How to Show Telephone Numbers On Letterheads
Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design
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Canadianizing film posters
Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters
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Buid your own font
FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online
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The 2008 A List Apart survey
Work the Web in someway? Take A List Apart's Web industry survey and help create a clearer picture of the industry
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Terry Fox
Had he lived, the man who inspired Canada with his Marathon of Hope would have been 50 years old today.
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CBC.ca does Chinese
And Fake Ouimet (a.k.a., Joe Clark) hit his stride
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Recovering the bikes
Remarkable photo essay detailing the recovery of hundreds of presumed stolen bikes
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Tracking the real homicide rates
Are there more murders in Toronto than in past years?
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Movie domain names
Being both an Internet and a movie geek lets you create a entertaining review site
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49:00
Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents
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Pop art then and now
An overview of pop art in its classic and modern forms
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Nazaré Snack Bar
From the Blackout to near blackouts, I'll always love the Communist's Daughter
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The Tea Makers is back
But is now under the management of Fake Ouimet, a.k.a., Joe Clark
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How to write with style
Kurt Vonnegut wrote 7 or 8 tips one should consider
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Igor charged with bike theft
Toronto's stolen bikes always seemed to end up at Igor's place on Queen West
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NPR API
More news outlets lifting the skirts on the core of their business
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Toronto as seen by a San Franciscan
Interesting take on my home city from a resident of a city I newly appreciate
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Multitouch light table in JavaScript
Works both on iPhones and the desktop versions of Safari
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Creative or invasive?
Outdoor advertising in Toronto hits the bulls eye...or something
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Visualizing the Walmart infection
A very viral map of Walmarts explosive growth across the U.S.
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thestar.com: iPhone edition
The Toronto Star launches an iPhone enhanced version as the other Canadian papers seem woefully behind
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Information design patterns
Based on a beautifully crafted master thesis, this is a brilliant repository of patterns
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Google as the pressroom
Some thoughts about whether Google should take over the publishing duties for newspapers online
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Small screens are better
The iPhone shows that, in interface design, less really can be more
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Touch and gestures in JavaScript
The iPhone API for these new events is thoroughly deconstructed.
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Spectator's last post
Toronto Life has shuttered its blogs and the great Doug Bell signs-off with a brilliantly layered entry
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Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Chris Mills has done a heroic job developing a massive collection of Web standards-based learning resources
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Silverback review
This comprehensive review was enough to convince me of this usability program's value
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Identi.ca
Interesting concept for a Twitter replacement (I'm "saila" there) - no API at launch tho
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Canadian colour palette
Colour for each of Canada's cities
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Le chandail
NFB, Roch Carrier, and Maurice Richard
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CSS variables
WebKit nightly builds support a much desired CSS feature
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Tyson Homosexual
When political agendas interfere with the news process, the names of Olympic athletes become schoolyard jokes
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A Netflix for magazines
Interesting concept allows you to rent magazines on a subscription
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Rogers destroying Citytv
Once North America's most innovative TV station, Rogers is systematically eviscerating the channel
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Canadian iPhone pricing
Rogers rate plan means my usage of the iPhone would cost me twice as much in Canada as in the U.S.
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Real 3-D holographic displays
Appropriately demonstrated using a Star Wars spacecraft
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Better CSS font stacks
An excellent collection of font collections to use to ensure everyone has the best chance of seeing the type the way you intended them to
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Happy Birthday UPC
Thirty years ago, the first product ever was checked using the Universal Product Code
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What every Web designer should know
Andy Rutledge goes throw the skills Web designers should have, and most are not what you would expect
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Eric's Trip: the movie
A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White
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The secret vault of Lego
All the Lego sets ever made have been saved in one magical place
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Seattle's newest 'hood: Radio Point
Appears that the little triangle where I live is being contested by two different neighbourhoods
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about:robots
They have a plan
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Delaying news in the Internet era
NYTimes.com talks a bit about how Tim Russert's death was leaked online
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Preloading CSS images
A jQuery plug-in walks through CSS files to cache images to improve loading time
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Ice on Mars
Real, water ice and MarsPhoenix twittered the news
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Air India 182
June 22 marks on of Canada's darkest moments and people need to know why
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Examining the new Orlando Sentinel
Candid discussions about the dramatic new design of a Florida newspaper