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

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