Version 1 was really useful, Version 2 looks to be pretty amazing. Supports responsive design, has a style guide, and is fully open source.

A new t-shirt commemorating the event that came to define last week.

Paul Irish’s new site which gives general advice on which HTML5 features you can use responsibly.

John August:

When you stir stupid and lazy together, they form a toxic compound called Smug Ignorance. It’s non-partisan and always fatal. The symptoms are phrases like, “I don’t know much about computers, but…” or “Look, no one knows if climate change is real.”

This is just more bad news from a Supreme Court who doesn’t understand the importance of the public domain, which is ironic considering that much of the legal history they have used in their entire careers is in fact public domain.

E.G. Gauger writing about games. You read.

What I’ve been working on for the last few days: A site for the January 18th internet blackout to oppose SOPA. Sign up to blackout your site, and send requests to others.

Very impressive JS presentation tool using CSS3 transforms and other newish web tricks.

Really cool jQuery scrolling effects plugin. The site is a demo.

“Photoshop grids that don’t suck so hard.”

Sounds about right.

Disappointing, but not surprising. Marvel is shit-scared of piracy, and instead of finding ways to make their comics better/more interesting/more apt to be purchased, they spend their time and money on disgusting legislation like SOPA. Really, they’re no different than the movie or music industry. They’ll fuck you as hard as they can to eek out one little potential point of revenue.

In short, GoDaddy supports the Stop Online Piracy Act. Fuck ‘em. You can transfer all of your domains to NameCheap with a discount using the code BYEBYEGD.

Vanity Fair says no:

As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.

Experts like Bruce Schneier have been calling what the TSA does “security theater” for 10 years now. The mainstream press just now seem to be catching on.

Sounds good:

TextSecure is a replacement for the standard text messaging application, allowing you to send and receive text messages as normal.

Why isn’t this built-in to Android? or iOS for that matter? or everything?

Jon Hicks makes great icons, and I look forward to learning what he has to teach. The 323-page book ships January 30th, 2012 and there’s a PDF sample.

Useful if you have a website which is trying to target 3DS users specifically. Includes the user agent string, actual screen dimensions, and some HTML5 tricks to make it behave.

… and Web Developers around the world have the confusing feeling of wanting to hug someone at Microsoft.

His direct-download, no-DRM, concert video has sold over 100,000 copies. Louis:

I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again. If the trend continues with sales on this video, my goal is that i can reach the point where when I sell anything, be it videos, CDs or tickets to my tours, I’ll do it here and I’ll continue to follow the model of keeping my price as far down as possible, not overmarketing to you, keeping as few people between you and me as possible in the transaction.

This is news that I am very happy about.

Looks really nice, can’t wait to give it a try.

Saved me a lot of time this afternoon. Sometime I’d really like to review all of these.