Have you ever had that friend who would just notice when your lawn needed mowing or your house needed painting and would just come over and take care of it for you?
Me neither.
But Google is that friend! For the internet!
Introducing Google Chrome Frame: Run the Google Chrome User Agent as a plugin to Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8. This means you can render web sites as they were meant to be seen – even in an 8 year-old browser.
I’m interested to see how quickly this gets adopted by the IE user base. Perhaps soon, those of us who build web sites will be able to actually use modern code, even HTML5! We can only hope.
The Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) is a multidisciplinary applied research center that seeks to engage faculty from across Boston University to help solve the critical global health and social development challenges of our time.
BUworks is a plan to transform the way BU does business. To make the plan a reality, we’re implementing a new software system for financial affairs, purchasing, and human resources. Their goal is to make BU’s day-to-day administrative work faster, easier, and more efficient.
There’s an undercurrent of strangeness involving graphic designers who choose to show off their poster designs in a veryspecificmanner.
Thankfully, we have Jason Santa Maria (the brains behind the previously-mentioned Typepedia) to create a web-centric response. He posted a single photo to Flickr of a person finger-holding a laptop. Then, some very funny Germans took the idea and ran with it.
And now, here on 9/9/09, Jason has created a single source for all uber-hip web designers to show off their best work:
Behold! The Website Finger Hold Flickr group! It’s new and different.
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