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Fascinating presentation about the current state of gameification, and some suggestions for where application designers should be headed. Along the way he asks, "What vision of The Good Life do your designs convey?"

Check your work.

Screenshots of sites that display well at different window sizes. [via mathowie]

A clean, simple interface to the existing jQuery documentation.

"...your visitor will have a limited amount of time (specified by you) to fill in the form and send it. And if a spammer tries to post information to your form processor remotely they’re going to hit a big fat roadblock."

"...you can create a honeypot form field that should be left blank and then use CSS to hide it from human users, but not bots." Pure CSS bot thwarting.

"As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities." Great hypothesis. Hard in practice.

Paintings that capture alchemists, messy labs and all.

"It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish."

Gloves that work with an iPhone. Great idea!

This post is a great antidote to all of the benchmark lists you see that tell you where your child should be. [via caterina]

Interesting discussion about different approaches to managing an online community.

A quick behind-the-scenes look at "20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web" that explains some of the unique features of HTML5.

Nicely designed "book" about the Web.

Interesting experiment that creates web icons with pure CSS.

Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.

Nice minimalist inline MP3 player. I hope they move from Flash to HTML5 eventually.

Photographer, alphabet trucks and abandoned gasoline stations.

This bookmarklet will format a web page as text-only. Nicely done!

Smashing table designs.

[via magnetbox]

Lots of trails around Corvallis I didn't know about. I have my work cut out for me this summer.

"In this paper, EFF offers some suggestions, both legal and technical, for best practices that balance the needs of OSPs and their users' privacy and civil liberties."

Some clever CSS/JavaScript hacking that determines which sites on a list someone has visited. Used for questionable good here, but could be a privacy nightmare. [via hackszine]

"...good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented." [via swissmiss]

Cal on caching, chunking, compression, and integrating all of the above with a workflow.