A particularly large selection of links this week:
- Gmail Skinning – Through a mixture of Firefox extensions and the browser’s support for user CSS, Gmail is now skinnable. I can see this becoming a very big thing.
- Zip Decode – A demo of zoomable maps, using postcodes to target areas. Takes an age to load but does the job.
- Min-height: fixed – Someone has finally sorted out the problems with minimum height across browsers. Another handy CSS tip.
- Currency And Legal Tender – Some interesting points about how legal tender works in Scotland, and how non-legal tender is still valid currency.
- Darque Dungeon – Amusing reworked comic strip. Very funny stuff. Search around on the site for another similar piece.
- Creating A Mozilla Extension – Something that I want to learn but have never had the time. Another example for writing extensions for mozilla is right there. Not sure if these are new enough to take into account the changes made to Firefox extensions recently but are bound to be decent starting points either way.
- More On The Underground Cinema – In one of the recent links posts there was an article on a secret underground cinema in Paris. This article talks to someone who claims to know the group responsible.
- How To Fold A T-Shirt – Wow. That is an impressive piece of folding.
- Warioware 2 – After the brilliance of the original, I can’t wait for this tilting based sequel (although I wonder how multiplayer games will fit into this new way of working).
- Google Aptitude Test – Google do recruiting in an unconventional way. Some great questions in there, particularly 19.
- Struggling With The Web – The web is easy to use, it just doesn’t hand hold you through every detail.
- Gmail Drive – Set up your Gmail account as a drive in Windows. Absolutely fantastic stuff.
- Zoom – Shockwave zoomed image that goes on for… well, a long time.
- Transformers History – The complete Transformers backstory, from billions of years before the original series to the end of the beast wars. A great deal of information. Read only if you have hours to spare.
- Not Just Usability – Joel argues that usability is not the most important thing in an application. A good idea will win out over bad design.
- BBC News Online Wikiproxy – News Online wired up to wikipedia. Simple but great idea. The BBC should incorporate this into their basic system.
- Understanding Base64 Data – A quick overview of how base64 works and how to implement it in Java.
- Tiny Plaid Ninjas – And finally, tiny plaid ninjas. Aha.
Still a lot more to clear out, but they will have to wait for now since I can’t be bothered compiling the rest of this list today.