Jim Barraud

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The sad thing about this is that it's not April 1st.

Best twitter account ever.

Helpful for those making the jump to the new cat.

New Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse album that has an interesting backstory to it. Basically he's in a dispute with the record EMI and if the album is released there's legal implications. So it's being sold it as a blank CD-R with a book of photos by David Lynch. Leaving it to you to acquire and burn the music through other avenues. It's good, search around and you'll find it.

Lot's of new front-end goodness coming in Firefox 3.5 (formerly numbered 3.1)

Please.

The story of Little Red Riding Hood re-interpreted as an isometric infographic video. (via swissmiss)

Great talk from Gruber and Merlin at SxSW about blogging. Essentially, blog about what you love and don't be a douche.

Essentially a digg-esq site for command line commands. This goes beyond my level of geekdom, but it's quite fascinating and a terrific resource. I've already found a couple gems.

Interesting article about the 3D CSS capabilities that are present in mobile Safari but not the desktop version.

Can't really begin to explain how awesome this is. Essentially it's a collection of songs (videos) that are created from mashing up various other musical youtube videos. (via Made by Robot)

Terrific new video game podcast or more appropriately, radio show. It concentrates more on video game culture and less about the latest game news and reviews.

Terrific music video from Röyksopp that brings Space Invaders to life.

I really like the album cover of the new U2 album "No Line On The Horizon". It's by a photographer by the name of Hiroshi Sugimoto. His site has some other photos from the series "Seascapes", from which the new album cover appears to be from. I just wish the photos on his site were larger.

I'm a big fan of the TED talk videos and even more so when it's a video of someone I respect and admire. Here's a recently posted TED talk with Milton Glaser from 1998.

I noticed recently that Gmail switched to using custom buttons for it's mail actions and I thought they were nicely done. As someone who's had to create custom HTML buttons, I can appreciate the amount of work someone can put into getting them to work in most major browsers (I'm looking at you IE6). Here's a detailed post from Douglas Bowman, Google Visual Design Lead, about how the buttons came to be.

Nice write up from David Shea on how the big boys are utilizing CSS Sprites and what some of the pros and cons are. I've used CSS sprites in the past and have found they work great if you plan for them in advance. As mentioned in the article, it's when the images need to be resized or repositioned that you can run into headaches.

Recently launched by my friends and colleagues Tom Sullivan and Jon Sykes. ecommr is a collection of e-commerce interface and design elements. I've found this to be a terrific resource for keeping tabs on the current trends in e-commerce store front design.

Beautifully designed letterpress Certificate of Record for filing with your local Tooth Fairy. I wonder what the ROI is on this.