22 Dec 2010

December Link Dump

All-Purpose Pronoun

I’m a big fan of the singular they/them/their, it works well enough and is far less annoying than approaches such as alternating the gender.

Space Monolith Action Figure

Now a real product, but sadly I spotted it too late to ask for one for Christmas.

Head JS

Provides tools for loading scripts, smoothing over IE problems, etc. It does look pretty nifty.

Favimon

A Pokemon-style game played with web sites.

What’s wrong with OpenID?

The whole notion of online identity is horribly tangled up with tricky issues of usability, technology, market share and privacy.

Ben the Bodyguard

A slick teaser site that ties page scrolling to animations.

Comic Sans Criminal

Another page using scrolling well.

Fontspring

Offers embedding-friendly licensing and webfont packages for only a small extra cost.

Cat and Girl - Cash Money 2010

The economics of webcomics.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - IMDb

Spot the Easter egg.

Anatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern

Apart from anything else, sending new users directly to the Twitter OAuth page is just plain stupid.

One Chance

Manages to be actually rather moving despite glitches and obvious themes/messages.