A transmission from the deep south.
This plugin by Joel Sutherland simplifies the process of displaying public Flickr content on a website. It works by requesting a JSON feed from Flickr’s API and then transforming the returned data using a simple template syntax. (via Script & Style)
The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered via AJAX and various APIs, displayed full-screen in Chrome running on a Samsung professional display. Fantastic.
Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others on the WebKit team would be working their butts off to make the web richer — because they want it for themselves.
— Neven Mrgan, The WebKit monopoly. (via WebKitBits)
A jQuery plugin by Jacek Galanciak to reorder and filter items using animated transitions. (via Lee Majors)
A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
Site and bookmarklet by Matthew Freedman to create Flickr base-58 short URLs from an image’s full path. Update: Na Wong has another bookmarklet solution that displays the URL in a pretty overlay and sends it directly to Twitter. (via Preshit Deorukhkar)
A jQuery plugin to style checkboxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons and file upload inputs the same across all browsers. Includes default themes by Josh Pyles and Made by Sofa, plus tools to build your own. (via Tim Van Damme)
Neue, a thrice-yearly online magazine marrying cities and type. First up, New York City. (via Marc Feustel)
A jQuery plugin from Build Internet for full-screen slideshows using faux background images that retain their aspect ratio.
Kyle Jones just released another hit with Haäfe & Haph, a set of gorgeous ampersands, not to mention a really lovely site to display them all.
Provided in EPS and Opentype formats for $10. Simply beautiful.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
