Too busy to blog, but never too busy to collect a few links:

It Fell From The Sky

A cute/melancholy animation by Jason Ruddy.

Exploits of a Mom

If you’re interviewing server-side developers, show them this first to save time. You can immediately reject anyone who doesn’t get it.

Does the Frank Spencer music have Morse code?

Somewhat more bizarre and surprising than Morse’s Morse.

Re-inventing XMLHttpRequest

JavaScript code to iron out some annoying browser quirks in client-server communication.

What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?

The perils of crude SEO.

Unity

I know I’ve mentioned this game development environment before, but the new version really does look superb. Yeah, of course you lose a hell of a lot of performance from working at a higher level, but unless you have an immense budget you need to focus on gameplay and minimise testing/QA/optimisation/debugging.

Please don’t sever the chimp’s arm!

Stuff like this makes me want to use their service.

‘Beanplating’

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