Link dump #130

Podcast round-up

Music Round-up 2010

disable form buttons

courtesy of scriptygoddess. After submitting a form you can disable the button using Javascript. This means that commenters on your blog won't subm [...]

image recognition cat flap

stops unwanted intruders coming through your cat flap! [...]

Spammers are lazy

encode your email address using numeric character references and you get a lot less spam because, says Phil Ringnalda, spammers are lazy. [...]

beck

new album from Beck called Guero, out on the 29th March. Early copies come with an extra cd of remixes and stuff, including a Boards of Canada versi [...]

thinking of switching to a mac?

here's a few reasons. [...]

ruby on rails

there seems to be a bit of a buzz about the programming language Ruby and D an Benjamin reckons it will take over from PHP as the defacto web scripti [...]

manasarovar

I received a personal letter from the writer-director of an upcoming feature film called ManasarovarThe film is starting its theatre run in UK from [...]

Discounted

Getting around on Shanks' Pony should be much more fun since I splashed out on a new pair of trainers.After some impressively attentive service from [...]

excellent resource

Designers Toolbox [...]

Screenfont.ca

Screenfont.ca is part of an upcoming project to research and develop a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. [...]

free fonts

from band names. [...]

eskimo recordings

nice mix on the eskimo recordings site: follow the office listening link. [...]

IE 7 for all?

According to CNET NewsBill Gates said that [Microsoft] will ship an update to its browser separately from the next major version of Windows... a bet [...]

dns report

Here's a method of checking your site DNS connections. Just pop your site into the form field and see if there's problems: dns report. [...]

robots and spiders

Is it just me or has there been an enormous increase in the amount of spidering carried out by robots like msnbot/1.0, Googlebot/2.1 and Yahoo! Slurp [...]

faux real

timely article from Red Labor about the saturation of crappy stock photos on the web, and how it does nothing for inspiration except to warn against [...]

more coffee?

test your reaction speed. [...]

Basics of search engine optimisation

Roger Johansson has posted an excellent article on SEO [...]

the wurst gallery

how to turn a crappy, old, second hand, cheap, reproduction, print into a work of art... they don't all work but thi s one does. [...]

front design

innovative, classy, quality, leftfield and utterly delicious design from front design. Just check out the rabbit warren lamp or the dog leg imprint [...]

UK anti-spam law

Article taken from The Register:New UK anti-spam laws coming into effect tomorrow will have limited effect in turning the tide in the fight against [...]