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• IE Leak Detector (Drip/IE Sieve)
  Join Sourceforge page for the two projects. Go ahead. Detect your memory leaks in IE. It’s fun!
  (tags: ie opensource)

• Wonderland User’s Guide TOC
  (tags: wonderland virtualworlds)
• YouTube – Firefox 紹介ビデオその1！
  Japanese Firefox ad.
  (tags: firefox youtube marketing)
• Speedtest – how fast are you?
  Typing speed test. I did better than I thought I would. Includes touch typing tips.
  (tags: cool games)
• Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
  (tags: design)
• Your Tech Weblog: Google debuts Street View in the Twin Cities
  I’m more excited about this now that it’s in my city. It will change how I give directions.
  (tags: cool google maps)
• James Governor’s Monkchips » Open, Social, Only People: Putting the Ad-hoc into ERP. On SAP, Breakthrough Productivity and Bring Sexy Back
  (tags: software enterprise socialsoftware enterprise2.0 redmonk via:monkchips)
• An inside look at the Yahoo Design Pattern Library
  (tags: patterns design yui)
• Equal Height Columns using CSS – Ed Eliot
  Unlike Ed, I’m happy to use JavaScript for this effect, but he’s got a good rundown of CSS approaches.
  (tags: design css)

• Zoom layouts (Joe Clark: Media Access)
  (tags: design accessibility)

• Making Considerate Software
  (tags: hci ui)

Sometime in the ’80s, my sister had me scouring record stores in the Twin Cities for a copy of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing a duet of “Little Drummer Boy” that she wanted to give to her friend for Christmas. I never found it. A few years ago it turned up on a holiday sampler from Martha Stewart, of all things, and I’m sure can be found elsewhere.

Now we have YouTube.

Here’s the story behind the duet. Kinda cool. And that Martha Stewart CD has a couple other gems. Emmylou Harris just kills “The First Noel.”

• OAuth 1.0, OpenID 2.0 and up next: DiSo | FactoryCity
  (tags: openid oauth identity)
• Continuations-Based Web Applications in Common Lisp With Weblocks
  (tags: continuations framework lisp)

The National Wildlife Foundation has an initiative they’re calling the Green Hour:

by giving our children a “Green Hour” a day — a bit of time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world — we can set them on the path toward physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Sound idea. I’ve read Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods. I’m sold on the importance of connecting to the natural environment as a child. So I’ve been making a point of getting our kids outside to play for at least an hour every day.

But some days, it’s hard. One of the things I like most about living in Minnesota is the winters and all the fun we can have outside in the snow. But whew! Was it cold today! I used to say that I felt like I could dress for cold until it got to  -30F. Until then, don’t talk to me about cold. Then I had kids. Even when it’s “just” in the single digits, I’m not so keen on keeping my one-year-old outside in a dangerous windchill, no matter how he’s dressed.

• Rails 2.0 Final Released! – Summary of Features
  Like it says on the box
  (tags: rails)

• 10 Tips to Help Employees Collaborate
  Grady Booch on CIO.com
  (tags: collaboration)
• South Park Zone
  All South Park episodes. Sweet, now maybe I can watch the World of Warcraft episode without bothering my wife.
  (tags: cartoon)

• Maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer
  That’s what I was wondering. People were telling me it was a lot shorter, but I didn’t buy it.
  (tags: ie url)
• Meatballl Sundae
  New book from Seth Godin about slapping new marketing ideas on the old.
  (tags: marketing)