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• The CSS website Awards » The gallery of the most prestigious websites in the world created with CSS. An international jury of the top designers, agencies, and bloggers will award prizes to the best CSS websites.
• Bruce Lawson: A Minimal HTML5 Document » There seems to be confusion about the minimal set of elements that make a valid HTML5 page.
• Jeffrey Zeldman: An InDesign for HTML and CSS? » HTML is a language with roots in library science. It doesn’t know or care what content looks like. (Even HTML5 doesn’t care what content looks like.) Neither a tool like Photoshop, which is all about pixels, nor a tool like Illustrator, which is all about vectors, can generate semantic HTML, because the visual and the semantic are two different things. Moreover, authoring good HTML and CSS is an art, just as authoring good poetry or designing beautiful comps in Photoshop is an art.
• The League of Moveable Type » No more bullshit. Join the revolution. We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts. Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute.
• Typography Served » Fresh works from leading creative professionals in Typography
• 0xFE: Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas » I spent a few weekends trying to scratch an itch. While looking for online tools to create and render music notation, I was mildly disappointed. The only real options were crummy flash based sites or clumsy server-side image renderers. Neither of these were particularly appealing. So I pulled up my sleeves, and cooked up a full-fledged JavaScript API to engrave musical notation directly in the browser with the HTML5 Canvas element.
• Brian Cray: Target IE6 and IE7 with only 1 extra character in your CSS » And there you have it. That’s all you have to do. Stop wasting your time, your client’s money, your users’ bandwidths, and your otherwise zen disposition.
• BBC: Glow JavaScript Library » gives you: Simplified DOM manipulation, event handling, animations, etc; a versatile set of user interface widgets; clear and comprehensive documentation; BBC Browser Support Standards compliance
• The Rumpus: Conversations About The Internet #5 - Anonymous Facebook Employee » Though forthcoming, my friend was anxious to preserve her anonymity; Facebook employees, after all, know better than most the value of privacy. As she is not permitted to divulge company secrets, and would like to remain employed, her name has been omitted from this interview. It provides an interesting snapshot of the inner workings and culture of Facebook in the summer of 2009.
• The Guardian: The dark side of the internet » In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. Meanwhile, in the 'shallow web', mainstream newspapers give innocent luddites the willies.
• Plain text to OPML Generator » Paste a list of rss-feed urls into the textarea and submit to convert into an OPML file.
• Baseline » a CSS framework built around the idea of a “real” baseline grid.
• Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet » everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
• Google Data APIs » provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. These REST-style APIs are based on the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), using the standard Atom syndication format to represent data and HTTP to handle communication. The Google Data API protocol also extends AtomPub for processing queries, authentication, batch requests, and providing alternate output formats (JSON, RSS).
• Gilest: Internet ephemera » Let's start with an assumption: "Everything we post online is ephemeral." Now, if we start with that assumption, how does that change our approach to what we put online?

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