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The wonderful world of early photography

Going from camera obscura via all sorts of oddities to finally end up at “Wath the birdie” The wonderful world of early photography surely holds some interesting info. (via)

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HTML Mail Rumblings

Along with the release of email-standards.org, comes out a new article on ThinkVitamin, entitled “Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered”

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Google Maps : Terrain View

Neat new feature on Google Maps named Terrain View.

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Interesting: Firefox Read-it-later extension

What if you could mark links as “2read”, yet not bookmark them yet, and then later on browse that list? Be sure to check out Read it later, a firefox that allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. …

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TinyMCE 2.1.3 Released!

“This release fixes some issues with Firefox 3 beta and the Opera 9.50 branch. It has also a fix for a critical paste bug in IE. We will continue to release fixes for more critical bugs on the 2.x branch until a stable version of the 3.0 version is released.” – Go download

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DateJS, Javascript Date Library

Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date Library. Parses input like “today” (Nifty, yet not new at all – dd 2003.10.06) and above that does nifty manipulations like Date.today().next().thursday() and Date.today().add(3).days() … eager to see how this library will evolve 🙂

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[slides] Metaprogramming Javascript

Metaprogramming Javascript, extremely interesting presentation by Dan Webb as seen at @media Ajax

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TinyMCE 3.0 Beta 1

“This is the first beta version of TinyMCE 3.0. Lots and lots of bugs and issues have been corrected, we have also done extensive testing on various platforms for this release.” – Read all about it in the announcement thread.

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Half-Life 2 Gameplay Stats

Steam keeps track of the time played, number of deaths, etc. for both Half-Life 2 : Episode One and Half-Life 2 : Episode Two. As an extra for HL2-EP2 they even prodide deathmaps (heat-maps) of where exactly users got killed. Very nice! (via)

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MetaThis, MetaThat, MetaTale

Less than one week after the announced update, the MetaTale Top 100 got updated (the date on top is wrong though). But what is MetaTale? Well, Bart gives one extensive explanation how MetaTale works (Dutch) which will give you a nice idea what it’s all about. After having checked my own MetaTale rank, turns out …

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