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Sonific Heading To The Deadpool: Record Labels Blamed

Note to startups: don’t base your entire business model on other peoples content that you don’t have the rights to use.

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No CSS Reset

I completely agree – I don’t ever use a CSS reset style sheet. It seems like far too much hard work putting back in all the styling you’ve overridden, not mention that if you’re using a CMS you’re going to have to make sure that you’ve got everything that someone could enter (uls, dls, blockquotes etc) covered.

Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down

This video is just pure 80s gold:

Artistry

Grooveshark Launches Awesome Streaming Music Service

You know what? This is actually pretty good, and has one of the best flash-based interfaces I’ve seen in quite a while.

Examining Twinkle for the iPhone

Twinkle is yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone. At its core it’s a Twitter client, and a very good one at that, but what makes it really interesting is that if you update using Twinkle it can optionally (and by default) save your location whilst you do so, using the iPhone location APIs. You can then see a list of twitters by, say, everyone within a 1 mile radius of you, which is pretty remarkable.

More proof we’re living in the future etc…

Introducing CSS Gradients

WebKit now supports CSS gradients, which is pretty awesome – you can now make fully Web 2.0 compliant designs with rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows fully in CSS in WebKit. If only everyone else (looks in Firefox and IE’s directions) would implement all these features as quickly as the WebKit folks are…

Buzznet Acquires Music Blog Idolator from Gawker Media

I can’t help but think that Buzznet (and hence Universal) owning two of the largest music blogs is really not a good thing. Luckily for us, 10 more – just as good – will spring up to take their place.

Monocle: design notes

Possibly one of the longest blog posts I’ve ever read, but well worth getting through – while I’m not really a fan of Monocle’s content (a little too pretentious for my liking) the design of both the web site and the magazine is exemplary.