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Reusable Imageless Google Custom Buttons

Doug Bowman on how the new buttons in Gmail (and others) have come to what they are now.

Kottke Goodiness

Kottke.org is one of the sites I’ve been following for the longest time. This week – as usual – some extraordinary stories have gotten the pleasure of pleasing me: Kanye West and his entourage, Coke not Classic anymore & NYC’s maple syrup smell mystery solved

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John Resig on The DOM

The jQuery author talks about the DOM: Nearly every method is broken in some way, in some browser

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jQuery 1.3 Cheatsheet

As all cheatsheets: handy! 😉

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The history of Twitter

I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and …

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Quote of the day

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God. (via)

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