The 2008 survey from A List Apart : Go fill ‘em up!

Nevermind the results for Cobol (which I obviously don’t really care for); it just seems like an incomplete, barely out of beta kinda search. The start page is nice and slick (which the Google chaps could really steal from) but otherwise, it’s just hype. Maybe they just wanted to be out there early so Microsoft would be enticed to buy them.

Interactive agency Razorfish’s new site is great — the live image feed background thing is just absolutely stunning.

“Is the internet down for everyone or just me?”

You put a piece of scotch tape on top of the bite.

How come no one in real life ever told me this? How come I had to find out about this on the interweb? It’s quite disturbing when you find simple, plausible fixes to everyday things online.

It seems now Google will crawl Flash content really soon.

Let’s just sit back and watch the spammers and scammers try and bust out new ways to con Googlebot.

Keep getting “ActionScript 2.0 class scripts may only define class or interface constructs” errors in Flash?

Here’s how you fix the damn problem!

To promote the New Zealand Book Council’s efforts to encourage reading, Colenso BBDO created the Read At Work site. It’s a mock Windows desktop filled with books packaged as ‘fake’ Powerpoint documents to encourage people to read at their workplace without getting caught. Though it feels a bit scammy*, it’s a nice idea which is executed well.

* Hey, I live in Scam City so I am allowed to be skeptical

When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML / CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.

›› That’s the 37signals mantra, it seems

Check out goosh.org — absolutely brilliant. Definitely a ‘why didn’t I think of that first’ idea.

Nothing malicious — just ‘haha’ funny. Just press the “Esc” key to get out.

That was great, wasn’t it?

Really? He’s blocked it?
Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our… song.

›› Thom Yorke reacting to the news