Things that made me happy this morning:

• The Developer Evangelist Handbook is going nuts. 10300 hits yesterday, so far 12400 today.
• Amazing photos of naked Obama and unicorns – in case you wondered if the web is sane by now.
• Reconstructing 3D models of cities from Flickr photos is a pretty amazing research/tool/design.
• Proof that the quick brown fox really jumps over the lazy dog%
• CSS Prism is a tool to analyse CSS files and show the colours used in them
• Snook blogged about CSS text rotation and dug up the old IE transitions as a fallback – they are terrible though.
• 100 things our kids may never know about is a cool list of tech nostalgia
• BootXChanger allows you to change the Apple logo when your computer boots up
• Gheat is a pretty cool tool to overlay heatmaps on Google Maps

Things that made me happy this morning:

• You can now show your appreciation for accessibilty by getting a Braille body modification or as Rob of b3ta put it readable acne. Then again it makes more sense than stuffing donuts in your forehead
• Tesco is running a hack day in August
  as they are releasing an API!
• Skills matter released the video of my placemaker talk
• There’s no party like a panda birthday party
• Google releases a list of Google Twitter accounts
• The Telegraph have a nice section of comics that show what happens When Superheroes get old
• Wikitude is the “Augmented Reality (AR) platform which allows you to browse the world and helps you discover information about places and points of interest around you.”
• Some Amazing steampunk gadgets
• Good overview over Opera’s accessibility features
• Great photos of the Eniac
• Proof that cats do control humans and not the other way around

Things that made me happy this morning:

Good to know:

• The Guardian released a great piece on the truth of the figures involved in DVD/Game and Music piracy
• Finally an answer how to pronounce GIF – it is “Jiff” – no, not Yiff
• Some very useful bash scripts for web developers
• A handy “know your Goth (stereo)types cheatsheet”:http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php

Everybody say “awwww”

• Tomorrow I am going to Sophie and Nigel’s wedding
• Partly Cloudy, Pixar’s new short movie – I loke the little Ram.
• A very heart-warming interview and photos of a prom night in a school for the blind
• Some mechanical engineering students turn class projects into solutions for disabled and seniors

Code stuff

• Elliot Kember tries to keep twitter free from spammers with Blocky
• The Google Page Speed team are listening to my concerns and will change some of the docs to replace a terrible JS example with better code
• Bing has a API now (which seems to be a rebranded Microsoft Live search) – good API, but I do hate this documentation format. And I work on a mac or on linux the advice to download the SDK didn’t help much either as it is an MSI :-(. Then again, there is a yet undocumented search option for FlightStatus – that looks interesting.

Erm, what?

• Who knew that there are Hardcore Tetris orgies?
• Now, that’s what I call a party
• Greeks know how to party, check this Epic fireworks battle
• Do you remember the time when cocaine was still advertised?

• How to make a lot more money with Google AdSense the easy way
• A good example of car customisation going very wrong
• Amazing exhibition of balloon sculptures – some of them looking like rude bits
• The German Elektrischer Reporter explains Nerds (in German of course)
• A good article on communication skills being a something that sets you apart as an excellent developer: Coder your days are numbered
• The Bible, re-enacted with Playmobile
• A great Arduino solution for a bakery that will twitter when there is new fresh bread
• If your URLs are just not big enough, use Huge URL – also notice their contact email
• There’s a new format for JPG that allows for packing it – zipping up JPG images is more or less pointless in terms of saving bytes.
• A clever trick to analyze your browser history to determine your gender – I am 100% male.
• Awesome things people put on their resume – my faves are “Married, eight children. Prefer frequent travel.” and “Never been fired, although it could happen anytime now.”

• Nicole Sullivan has the complete story on reflows and repaints of CSS and how they slow down your JavaScript
• Check out the real manly tetris for the wide screen but bring some time (link fixed, thanks Jessica Bridges)
• A real honest developer CV
• A list of the top 500 worst passwords
• Google playing with search enhancements, the Wonder Wheel experiment – not sure about that one
• A wonderfully juvenile way to deface your parent’s mansion 60 foot willie
• Enabled by Design is live!
• A good introduction to SWF Flash vulnerabilities and how to avoid them
• A nice (German) blog post explaining how to use YQL and YUI to restyle a web site
• Dean Edwards talking about Callbacks vs. Events
• Me finding a new source of fun at conferences, Micnosing