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CSS sprite maps improve efficiency by making fewer HTTP requests to the server, but most implementations cause serious problems for users who view content in high contrast mode.

Via monospaced.

Good suggestions for API access levels.

maskingtape: @ohskylab Here's the memo on fireworks png-8 for IE6.. http://blogs.sitepoint.com/png8-the-clear-winner/

This could be good...

mono_spaced: Use-able OS X GUI for converting PNG to palletted 8bit alpha (sans Fireworks) http://pornel.net/imagealpha @ohskylab @maskingtape

Great breakdown of different PNG formats.

There is a company that sells radar equipment to the police as well as radar detectors to the public. Clorox is one of the world’s worst polluters of water, and also sells Brita filters to get the bad stuff out of the water again. Lawyers create mazes that you have to hire a lawyer to escape. Similarly social software both creates and cures FOMO. If you didn’t know that party was going on, you’d be home contentedly reading your latest New Yorker. But since you do, you hungrily watch each new tweet.

Via antimega.

That's better.

Via kevan.

The drive-by technorati are well-informed, curious and always probing. They're also hiding... hiding from the real work of creating work that matters, connections with impact and art that lasts. I love to hear about the next big thing, but I'm far more interested in what you're doing with the old big thing.

Aha, this is what XLR8R and others use for their podcasts (bad content farm link - couldn't find anything else).

IfYouOnly: The people behind TV show The Wire explain why they are waging a war against the war on drugs: http://is.gd/AB9fvx (@TIME, 2008)

Sound clips and quotes.

A directory of performance-related research, tips, tools, case studies, articles, and blog posts.

OK!

A potential replacement for Things.

There is nothing wrong with a design methodology that seeks to engage users of a product. There’s nothing wrong with a design methodology that aims to make products more fun to use. But I am worried by a design movement that assumes that users are easily distracted, and I am worried about design methods that seek to mimic game (and particularly videogame) design hooks to retain users and their attention. I am worried about the assumption that attention is a problem. It seems to assume and accept that continuous partial attention is for everybody.

Forum post with 'entire discography with download links and artwork'. Missing some newer releases, though.

Built upon that sinking feeling of tuning into Radio 4 and hearing people acting at you, Radio 4b plays you a string of random programmes from Radio 4's factual archive. [...] You will not hear middle-class actors tapping a teaspoon and talking about divorce.

Via kevan.

Via shrinkwrapped.

A honking great Google doc comparing Javascript loaders like LABjs, HeadJS etc.

Sloooooooow.

Via paul.irish.

Non-free terminal tutorial.

Via monospaced.

Via monospaced.

Salary Benchmarking for London 2011.

Via kevan.

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MSC-certified tinned fish.

Food occasions coming up

Well, this bodes well for the PlayBook app ecosystem. NB: it doesn't.

Do not want. "Increase customer spend by 10%-30% through optimized up-selling and cross-selling".

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