Looking for trim in Javascript? Here’s plenty, with very helpful analysis.

• Feb 2, 2012 at 16:50
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Securimage is a good-looking and accessible CAPTCHA built in PHP.

• Feb 2, 2012 at 10:22
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The Guardian: Moscow’s Banksy: the street art of P183. My favorites are the glasses and the “plate of spaghetti”, which cleverly reimagine real world objects as parts of other, gigantic objects.

• Feb 1, 2012 at 14:39
• also in Pretty things

The mystery of Kaspar Hauser. An intriguing tale, found via a Quora thread on the most gripping tales of human history.

• Jan 23, 2012 at 19:10
• also in Words spoken, echoes heard

23 years of the Bold and the Beautiful summarized in 6 minutes.

• Jan 20, 2012 at 4:41
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Hello. A very nice montage of movie clips recreating the song.

• Jan 19, 2012 at 10:19

Mobile design trends of 2011. A good collection and breakdown of different layouts and styles used in mobile sites.

• Jan 12, 2012 at 9:44
• also in Web development, Pretty things

Traffic in Frenetic Ho Chi Minh City. A very nice time lapse video.

• Jan 12, 2012 at 8:36
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HTML5 video player comparison. A very handy chart of what player supports what. While I appreciate native video support, I’d say JWPlayer is still the way to go. It’s mature and has a common Javascript API for both Flash and HTML5 players.

• Jan 10, 2012 at 19:17
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The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London. Crazy stuff!

• Jan 5, 2012 at 10:38
• also in The world these days, Delicious

Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant. By A List Apart.

• Jan 5, 2012 at 9:18
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FitVids.JS. A jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

• Jan 5, 2012 at 9:07
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How to add Google Analytics to mobile websites.

• Jan 3, 2012 at 6:08
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A few Twitter feed helpers: Seaofclouds jQuery plugin and a PHP Twitter Search API. Haven’t used either, just thought I’d note for later.

• Dec 5, 2011 at 13:48
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A nice history of Google’s search in a six-minute video.

• Dec 4, 2011 at 19:42
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The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. I've seen some of these before, but it still boggles the mind that some of these are done in Illustrator.

• Nov 30, 2011 at 4:26
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Using P3P headers to solve cross-domain cookie issues in IE. This addresses issues such as cookies not being set in iframes or Google Analytics not registering correctly for Internet Explorer.

Contrary to what some advice, just slapping a header in your index file isn’t enough, every static file also needs to have this header. A .htaccess may be of assistance in this task.

• Nov 29, 2011 at 6:53
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Quora: Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system?

• Nov 23, 2011 at 5:00
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The story of an odd con man who has been donating forged paintings to museums for 30 years. Via Kottke.

• Nov 22, 2011 at 8:24

Can the next Instagram/Hipstamatic/Klout/Angry Birds be born within an agency?

• Nov 16, 2011 at 16:04
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Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro. New weights and cuts; nice yet strange. Via Daring Fireball.

• Nov 16, 2011 at 16:04
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Can the Nnext Instagram/Hipstamatic/Klout/Angry Birds be born within an agency?

• Nov 16, 2011 at 11:33
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How Does Google Make the Big Bucks? An infographic answer by Wired.

• Nov 15, 2011 at 8:45
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CSS3 Lasers effect. Simple but nice. Via @zoltrain.

• Nov 15, 2011 at 8:44
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Nature's Playground. @ruralistrob's meditation on downhill riding.

• Nov 8, 2011 at 4:41
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The Making of Dot, the world's smallest stop motion film.

• Nov 4, 2011 at 5:20
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Greatest love scene ever?

• Nov 1, 2011 at 8:43
• also in Writing and all that follows, Observed levity, Delicious

Ubuntu Font Family. Free download, use on the web via Google Web Fonts.

• Oct 26, 2011 at 10:10
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Zebra Sarasa Push Clip Gel Ink Pen 0.4 mm. Josh Gruber swears by it.

• Oct 26, 2011 at 9:58
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Duck Sauce's Big Bad Wolf music video. Strange and hilarious.

• Oct 25, 2011 at 10:41
• also in Observed levity, Delicious

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup. Forbes' November cover story on Dropbox kicks off with a Steve Jobs story: "Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that."

• Oct 25, 2011 at 8:18
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs. One of the best obituaries.

• Oct 21, 2011 at 5:48
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Stack Overflow: Change an input's HTML5 placeholder color with CSS.

• Oct 21, 2011 at 5:43
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Using Remember the Milk with Siri. Interesting use of CalDAV to hook up the service. Via Daring Fireball.

• Oct 20, 2011 at 15:01
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A guide to navigating NPR's top 100 sci-fi and fantasy books.

• Oct 20, 2011 at 6:13
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Stack Overflow: CSS rotate property in IE.

• Oct 20, 2011 at 4:58
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The Lightbox Clones Matrix. Consult the table, then choose Colorbox.

• Oct 19, 2011 at 12:07
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Kern Type, the kerning game.

• Oct 18, 2011 at 5:23
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Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs. Incredible.

• Oct 18, 2011 at 5:14
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The Internet used to be fun, what happened? Asks Flo Heiss.

• Oct 18, 2011 at 4:51
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The New Yorker: Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future.

• Oct 13, 2011 at 14:22
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The strange physics of USB cables.

• Oct 11, 2011 at 13:00
• also in Observed levity, Delicious

The King of Legoland.

• Oct 11, 2011 at 8:30
• also in Pretty things, Delicious

Rolling in the beats. 24 videos mashed up live(?!).

• Oct 6, 2011 at 11:16
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The Deleted City. Geocities as an digital archaeology site.

• Oct 6, 2011 at 5:56
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The Lazarus File. The circuitous tale of how a LA murder case from 1986 was finally solved 23 years later, and how little time DNA evidence has been around.

• Oct 6, 2011 at 5:07
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Drift Cats. Silly cats.

• Oct 4, 2011 at 3:52
• also in Observed levity, Delicious

The Imperial March. As performed by two floppy disk drives. Brilliant!

• Oct 3, 2011 at 12:33
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Accessing public Facebook Graph API from an app. Strangely, using a Page's access token works for photos but not nideos or notes.

• Oct 3, 2011 at 2:42
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Touching Myself. A, um, provocative testicular cancer awareness ad.

• Sep 21, 2011 at 9:44
• also in Observed levity, Delicious