TTMMHTM: Reasons why CAPTCHAS are pointless, CSS3 shadow effects, ar on the moon

Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Things that made me happy this morning:

Michael Mahemoff on HTML5 for Game Developers
Fascinating research into the CAPTCHA solving business – getting 1000 cracked will cost you half a dollar!
Interesting discussion about the merit of awards for designers
Codinghorror has a good analysis how Firesheep works showing just how broken cookies are
HTML5 Doctor has a simple introduction to extending HTML5 with Microdata
A Practical Guide to Designing with data by Brian Suda
box-shadow:inset can render some very cool designs.
A paving machine of awesome
What should a developer know before building a public web site answered comprehensively on Stack Overflow
Good list of new HTML5 features of Mobile Safari
Good discussion about the merits of validation
Videos of the build conference on vimeo – Cederholm, Fisher, Meyer, Budd
förbind – a collaboration tool using websockets by Remy Sharp
Wow, I did not know that people managed to smuggle art to the moon
Why using simple language should be lucrative is an interesting article questioning copy as important
Zurb has some impressive CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments
Solid design advice in how to design a website that won’t piss everyone off
Chris Spooner has some pretty rad text effects using CSS3 text-shadow
Tuning canabalt has some great tips on how to write a mobile game
Some pretty funny book covers – albeit not planned to be that way
Great tips on how to move from TextMate to VIM
Awesome article about using yql to execute JavaScript in the cloud
Five Usability Challenges of Web-Based Applications by Jared Spool