10 ways to fix HTML5, written by the author of JSON

thanks for the tip

why the web design recruitment industry got it wrong; the alternatives presented are a bit too design-ish for my tastes (why can't you just design it without all the bling?), but some progress on the whole web2.0 thing nonetheless

more fire for the pc vs. mac debacle - some great points here; totally echoes my thoughts on the matter, but explained in an excellent, fun and non-geeky way

by ESR

designs for timelines; some wonderful experimental and innovative stuff

blog by a GNOME hacker/UI designer

some nice forgotten gems

gpl v3 in understandable terms

or why using databases for organising data isn't necessarily a good option - "Maybe the reason flat files work so well is that a file system IS a hierarchical database"

great archive of GUI history

why SEO is pointless for most of the internet

my essay on the reliance on appropriation inside the typographic world, and what it means for the whole type business and discipline

some nice pointers on how to cut on laptop watt-gobbling

a 3D version of the Context Free language

news media, social network moguls and design critics are getting it all wrong

markup for dynamic media

smil rocks

1945 hand-drawn info visualisation

everything on robots.txt

omfg! now i know FLOSS graphics can rock

collaborative and distributed version control - with Python

Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground, has just been fired for recording and posting some spoofs on her own website (some of her great samples here)

das blinkenlights server

fascinating read on a dissenting view debunking homeopathy

ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software

This is too cool: "In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on."

Google isn't a canonical example of webdesign because of its bad logo? Great points made here about the place of webdesign and usability vs. aesthetics

online vector tracing app

a post on the PZI MakeDo exhibition in Rotterdam, featuring a short video on my "Lightwriter" piece

= Leopard's Time Machine for Linux, built on Python and rsync