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A real hodgepodge.

• It looks like Firefox 1.0 will be released tomorrow.
• Sorting Algorithm Demo. These applets offer visual demonstrations of different sorting algorithms. Is Quicksort really that much faster than a bubble sort? Watch and see.
• Clay Shirky, Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software.
• Richard Rutter calls attention to Flash-free photo-fading, then produces a cross-browser, accessible version.
• Sun’s Project Looking Glass seems like cool way to bring 3D to the desktop (and show that just because it’s Java doesn’t mean it’s slow). Now it’s an open source project, which on the face of it means very little except that if it dies, it will die on the streets inside of a warm Sun laboratory. A coworker just pointed me to a similar research project within Microsoft a few years back. Interesting potential for bring spatial metaphors to the desktop, nearly as exciting as using Doom as an interface for process management.
• CVS Monitor. Now I just need a Subversion version.
• JDocs, a huge online collection of Java API documentation.
• fValidate, a JavaScript library for forms validation that I’d love to write more about but know I never will.
• Password generator bookmarklet.
• Cornell.edu’s redesign blog. How terribly novel, to open up the redesign process like this. I cannot imagine The Powers That Be at work allowing this.
• Douglas Bowman at Web Essentials in Sydney: Pushing Your Limits.
• Philip Greenspun: What’s wrong with the standard undergraduate computer science curriculum.
• JavaScript XMLHttpRequest from the JPSPAN wiki. See, too, the essential Using the XML HTTP Request object.
• A Development Infrastructure for PHP, one of a whole set of interesting things from Tony Marston.
• APLAWS+, a government-sponsored (UK) open source content management system built using the Red Hat CMS.
• Information Architecture Research, a “radically incomplete and idiosyncratic list of freely accessible research papers worth review before you plunge into your next information architecture project.”