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01/05/08

Nice Nike Football ad from Madonna's better half.

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31/03/08

Top marks for the realigned BBC News website, bringing it more in line with the lovely new, jQuery driven, BBC homepage.

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19/03/08

PicLens

Beautiful full-screen image browsing served up by the snazzy PicLens plug-in. Impressive, though practicality is debatable.

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14/03/08

Yahoo shifts to search the semantic web. Potentially huge, and very welcome news for us standards nuts.

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05/03/08

The Coke Zero Game

The Coke Zero Game. Latest masterpiece from the infuriatingly talented North Kingdom.

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20/02/08

Red Bull Flight Lab

It's sites like the Red Bull Flight Lab that remind you what Flash is for. Brilliant application and an awful lot of fun.

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14/02/08

Rejoice! The new Indiana Jones trailer has finally made an appearance. Can't wait.

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03/02/08

Help the Email Standards Project get Google's attention in the hope they will finally improve Gmail's awful rendering of HTML email.

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29/01/08

Awesome panoramic view of the Airbus A380 cockpit interior. This is the super-future.

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16/01/08

Excellent article from accessibility supremo Roger Johansson on how inappropriate, or overuse, of HTML features meant to aid accessibility can actually have the opposite effect.

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11/01/08

Great collection of design resources from Designers Toolbox. I find the OS form elements particularly helpful.

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09/01/08

Leopard applications stack icon

Bring clarity to Leopard's stacks with these neat stack overlay icons.

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23/12/07

You Tube - The Royal Channel

A thoroughly modern Queen. The British Monarchy gets with the times by launching The Royal Channel on You Tube.

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21/12/07

From 2009 all Norwegian government agencies will have to provide documents in open formats. Every citizen will be able to choose the software they use to access public information. Well done Norway. Let's hope other nations follow suit.

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17/12/07

Happy Christmas from AKQA. Now that's a nice Christmas card.

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07/12/07

Peek inside Zip files and folders with these very handy Zip Quick Look and Folder Quick Look plugins for Leopard.

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12/11/07

Pure Flash 3D Engine by Electric Oyster. Damn, that's some good looking Flash wizardry.

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25/10/07

I Love Typography

I Love Typography. Spend some time on this site and you will too.

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14/10/07

Stella Artois character

Welcome to the World of Artois. Lovely new UK website for Stella Artois.

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01/10/07

Radiohead are breaking new ground (again) with their latest album In Rainbows. It's only available for download direct from the band. The cost: whatever you decide. Really.

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28/09/07

web standards, noun
A large stick or cudgel, used by the slightly more anal-retentive to beat the slightly less anal-retentive.
From The Devil's Dictionary (2.0).

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25/09/07

Missile base in the desert

Fancy your own nuclear missile silo? Missile Bases is the place for you. These so-called 20th century castles, the ultimate in home security, are capable of withstanding nuclear attack. The vendor's description of gorgeous is open to debate.

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17/09/07

We play what we want - talk what we want - and you will listen! Bigging up Sheriff Jopi and Captain Japa's Ultimate Rock 'n Roll show, Lähiradio - Hellcity, Finland.

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16/09/07

Flow FTP client application icon

I'm not sure I would ever abandon Transmit, but the icon for FTP client Flow by Sebastiaan de With is stunning.

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16/09/07

Finally, a nice bandwidth speed checker without any restrictions: speedtest.net.

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