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Nice little hack for faster dynamic HTML with JavaScript.

This library uses an API to get up-to-the-hour currency rates.

Very helpful jQuery plugin that adds on onhashchange event for browsers that don't have one.

Nice sampling of speedometer design.

Handy tool to unminify JavaScript.

Ajax spinning image with no image! (A bit heavier than an image, though.)

"...it would seem that many who claim to be pro-business are trying to 'save' us from exactly the inclusive, creative, tolerant values that have made America's most successful company possible." Anil connects the dots.

UGH. "AT&T's killing their $10/1,000 text plan. Now, you'll have to choose between $20 for unlimited, or forgo a plan and pay $0.20 per message. AT&T calls this 'streamlining.' We call it what it is: an outrageous, gigantic scam."

Mat Honan quoting Mike Monteiro: "We used to design things to take us to the moon, now we design things to keep us from getting out of bed." Like!

Nice toolkit of design elements for building websites.

"So, my hypothesis is that IAMA [I am a...] and AMA [ask me anything] are an important type of citizen journalism. Call it 'community journalism.'" TIL (today I learned...) is also a nice convention. [via waxy]

This command line browser that can run JavaScript looks handy for testing web apps.

Nice looking jQuery/Prototype plugin that makes long select boxes more user friendly.

Nice JavaScript dialog/alert system.

"What are Facebook and Google but giant institutions, arms of the new establishment? What are smartphones if not high-tech leashes? Today, online databases hold more information about us than could fit on a mile-high stack of punch cards. Some kind of rebellion seems in order." [via sippey]

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

A clean, simple interface to the existing jQuery documentation.

A nice jQuery image cropping library.

How-To: Art.

"...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.

"In case you're as late to the party as me, it turns out that you can get web apps to behave like native apps." Nice run-down of some ways you can make a web app feel like a native app on the iPhone.

"...when you host your nameplate site (and blog) on a domain you control, it doesn't change, you never lose Google juice, and there's never a question about the canonical web page which identifies you." Gina is right!

A nice roundup of criticism of Ajax-spawned 'hashbang' URLs that sites/applications are starting to favor over traditional URLs.