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• NES Coffee Table
  A coffee table that looks like a giant 8 bit NES controller - that works

• 15 great examples of web typography
  A round-up of some really nice type-based site designs

• Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
  A roundup of retro and retro-inspired design

• 99designs: Bullshit 2.0
  The spec contest crap show must go on.

• Stefanie Posavec "On the map"
  Art based on mapping out structures and patterns in literary works. Very nice.

• Sark
  I'm intrigued by this small island in the English Channel, which was, up until this month, that last feudal state in Europe!

• Fun with jQuery's animation function
  Some great jQuery tips

• Spec work in the internet age
  Discussion on logo design competitions and other spec work

• A sense of non-commitment
  Working full-time at an agency and running your own consultancy on the side... professional?

• 30 tab-based website designs
  Cheb talks tabs. 4 of my designs are in this list, yay!

• URL as UI
  Good advice on building sites with nicely hackable URLs

• 10 things you need to know about Wordpress 2.5
  It's out and it looks good...

• Erratic Wisdom
  I like the look of this blog... it looks like you could play Battleship on it, and it has a cool sidebar thingy.

• BBC.co.uk
  The Beeb has relaunched, all fancy and customisable, Netvibes/iGoogle style

• A guide to web typography
  The very basics, from I Love Typography

• jQuery Tutorials for Designers
  A great beginner guide to using jQuery to make easy JavaScript enhancements to web pages

• Grid and column designs
  32 grid and column based designs at Web Designer Wall

• Nintendo Evolution
  For the game geeks, a pic showing the evolution of Mario, Link and Donkey Kong

• Internet Explorer 8 and Acid 2: A milestone
  According to IEBlog, Internet Explorer 8 leaps ahead in CSS support

• Best of CSS Design 2007
  Web Designer Wall's gongs for 2007

• Mr T. and Shatner star in ads for World of Warcraft
  This is uber nerdy. Mr T. as a "Nightelf Mohawk" and William Shatner likes to play a Shamen in World of Warcraft

• Facebook's brilliant but evil design
  Facebook have done a lot of things right. So good that we don't see the sneaky things going on in the background...

• Chumby
  Ultimate geek toy. Christmas gift idea, people!

• Q & A: Will Wright, creator of The Sims
  Will Wright discusses spore, and confirms its release on the Wii.

• Choices = Headaches
  So many choices for how to shut down Windows Vista

• 6 Keys to Understanding Modern CSS-Based Layouts
  A good checklist with useful links to conquer advanced CSS layout

• Creative Spark from Masters of Illustration
  Recent creative eye candy from top graphic artists

• YouTube-style embeddable maps
  Paste a little code on your web page to easily add a Google map

• BlueprintCSS
  A CSS framework aimed at cutting down CSS development time

• Blasting the myth of the fold
  More much needed hard data on proving that users do scroll

• Frameworks for Designers
  A List Apart advice for designers

• Facebook - Who, what and why we should care
  Lee Hopkins on the big MySpace killer

• Graphic Define Magazine: On Staying Creative
  by D. Keith Robinson

• Atari candleholder and a cool Mr. T shirt
  Fun stuff at Wonderland

• Web Directions 2007
  Start asking your boss for money, it's coming up to that time of year again...

• Make:
  DIY projects from Phillip Torrone and the rest of the team at Make: zine

• Limor Fried
  Open Source DIY electronics projects from Limor Fried, who presented a great keynote at SxSW with Phillip Torrone

• Introduction to Yahoo Pipes
  Mr Speaker, the Mario of Yahoo Pipes

• Whitespace
  A List Apart article on using whitespace effectively

• Five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved my a**e, why need more?
  Easy CSS cheat-sheet.

• Microsoft breaks HTML email rendering in Outlook
  Sitepoint talks of bad news for any HTML email designers

• Creating a page curl in Photoshop
  Veerle demonstrates an easy page curl technique. Good to see the use of a gradient, drop shadow and even a slight curve there...

• The new Adobe icons and branding
  ...but the thumbs up from Veerle

• What a mess
  The new Adobe icons get the thumbs down from Jason...

• Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
  Resolution switching for multiple devices and screen sizes