Ethereal Cereal

HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in May 2010. Essential reading. # ~ (0) 06·05·10

Here’s two unbelievably depressing links: An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids and a video of one of these heavy-handed SWAT raids in action. # ~ (1) 06·05·10

Here’s the trailer for the rather fabulous Italian Spiderman. # ~ (0) 19·04·10

http://placehold.it/ – quick and simple image placeholders. # ~ (0) 07·04·10

Wow… just wow, this Japanese dude does a rather stunning Whitney Houston impersonation! # ~ (0) 07·04·10

Is this for real? Leander Vyvey 22 floor roof jump. # ~ (0) 26·03·10

Has a time traveller from our decade been captured in a 1941 photograph? (source) # ~ (0) 23·03·10

Just Hashing is Far from Enough for Storing Passwords – How to Position against Dictionary and Rainbow Table Attacks.

Great article from a snappy development blog… # ~ (0) 19·03·10

People, do not watch this video if you have a dog, if you have ever had a dog or if you ever plan on having a dog. This is powerful, heartbreaking stuff. I remember crying for a week when Bessie died (yeah, yeah, she was called Bessie) – in front of an entire room full of work colleagues from Oracle to boot! Dogs tend to do things like that to you… # ~ (0) 10·02·10

What a mashup – ‘promesas’ by los mono with ‘intergalactic’ by beastie boys! # ~ (0) 26·01·10

I’m getting itchy feet. I haven’t “travelled” in almost seven years and long for even a few months of walking Indian trails once again – flickr photostreams like the Uttarayan Kite Festival by the meanest Indian aren’t helping to calm my roving instinct any!

I remember being amazed at the kite festival and buying a kite for one of the children who had decided to accompany me that day – the kite is cheap, it’s the string that costs money. I also remember… actually, I could go on all day so I just won’t start, just check the photos)! # ~ (0) 25·01·10

One for the bookmarks… jsFiddle – an online editor for the web. It supports all major Javascript libraries out there, has snazzy syntax highlighting within the code editor(s) and looks dam nice to boot. Nice work from Piotr & Oskar. # ~ (0) 21·01·10

Beautiful & Scary stuff… Tobias Schneider has built a Flash runtime in Javascript – codenamed “Gordon” (as in “Flash Gordon”). I just love Javascript hackers! This really is an exciting time to develop for the web. # ~ (0) 14·01·10