A friend of mine sent me this and said I no longer need to wade through the God Delusion.

Web standards checklist – useful for future score carding? Every point on the checklist is supported by a link to an external article such as how to create the perfect 404 error page. The list is rather old (august 04) but it’s all still relevant by the look of it.

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm

The International Atomic Energy Agency released a new warning symbol to supplement the elegant and traditional but meaningless trefoil radiation warning symbol.

New:

Supplementing:

Source: boingboing

Three of Anton’s toys joined the Enterprise IG digital team yesterday.

RSS, Second Life and Windows Vista were the hot topics.

Reader Grant wrote to tell us about Firefox’s little-known Quick
Find search tool, which you access by pressing the forward slash key
(the one that shares space with the question mark).

When you press slash (or the apostrophe key), you’ll see a little
Quick Find field in the lower-left corner of the screen–not unlike
what you get from pressing Ctrl-F (but without any of the Find
controls). Start typing and you’ll see instant results. Wait a moment
and Quick Find disappears on its own.

Obviously this won’t work if you’ve placed your cursor in a text
field (you’ll just get the slash or apostrophe), and I’m not sure
there’s any major value in using this search method instead over
Ctrl-F. That said, it’s one less keystroke, so it does seem a little
faster. Just one more way to wring a little more value out of Firefox. — Rick Broida

Source: lifehacker

Video of skydiver with defunct parachute plummeting to earth (don’t be put off by the annoyingly slow intro and the fact that it’s on the Daily Mail site!)

A new feed aggregator and manipulator from Yahoo.

O’Reilly Rader calls it:

“a milestone in the history of the internet. It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.”

Techcrunch noted:

“It takes effort to explain the significance of a new product when the immediate benefit to consumers may not be so obvious, and the awkwardly named “pipes” from Yahoo! is no exception.”

This use of RSS as a data channel is what Adam Bosworth was talking about the MySQL User Conference in April. RSS provides an “an open, simple data model to easily server up information similar to the way a web server delivers content to the browser.” Listen to his talk at IT Conversations.

So we’re starting to get a confluence of a single, simple data model and simple interface to allow anyone to construct their own queries.

Better have a look then.

Light Criticism:

LED Throwies:

Two projects from the Grafifiti Research Lab