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Pretty cool work by D-Barcode (found here through reddit).

Check the countdown on the right hand side ... 21 days left! It took a little bit of PHP and a touch of Javascript to get it to fit nicely in my sidebar ;)

Improve your vocabulary and relieve world hunger with FreeRice ... a pretty cool idea!

We screen-scrapped this morning (got what we wanted out of it :P) and started playing with Django ... so far so good :D The project is taking shape!

Don't Make Me Click is a brilliant talk! If you are interested in interaction design ... check it out! If there is only one thing to remember it is that the more interaction there is the less relevant the content (appears), henceforth the less users!

Guido was in the room (I am a Python fanboy :P) and mentioned that all the toolkits available these days seem to emulate the bad way of doing things (take that :P).

And last but not least, an anonymous Googler mentioned that it is all fine and dandy to favor the use of Ctrl-F (i.e. in page search) to scrolling, but that neither her grand parents nor her parents know about it (I am one of the man behind Inline Search so I am obviously interested). Aza blames it on a failure of the browserS ...