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Movie Mr Men - This made me smile a lot. Love how he's just constantly building this flickr set. Here are some of my favourites: hulk.jpg flikr.jpg harley.jpg gmail.jpg

http://brokenkode.com/movie-mr-men

browser.png Chrome Pointer Ad - One of the cutest adverts to hit the web in a while. I think it's down to the music and the sound effects which really bring ...

http://brokenkode.com/chrome-pointer-ad

Overcoming Creative Block - Some excellent ideas in there. One of my favourites (which I've not tried yet, but was actually thinking about that today) was the idea of going ...

http://brokenkode.com/overcoming-creative-block

dabbl - the radio station where your votes decide the music they play. I think I've FINALLY found my find new music solution that has been evading me for YEARS. ...

http://brokenkode.com/dabbl

Panic Blog - Just wanted to say that the Panic Blog (like most things related to Panic) is pure genius. Simple, but extremely clever with loads of thought put into ...

http://brokenkode.com/panic-blog

The Gates Notes - Excellent looking site from Bill. Is it me, or does it feel as though he's generally distancing himself from both MS and Fester (Steve Balmer).

http://brokenkode.com/the-gates-notes

N.Design Studio - Nick La's new website. Seriously I don't even know where to start. The attention to detail is mind boggling. It's the sort of shit I wish I ...

http://brokenkode.com/ndesign-studio

So Owen's responded to a few things that I'd written. I knew it was coming, and I knew it would be a big one, so true to form the man's ...

http://brokenkode.com/design-forward

Times Skimmer - Great idea and implementation of digesting the top news stories according to categories etc. This is what Google News should be like.

http://brokenkode.com/times-skimmer

So it seems I might have come across as being negative and I guess some have seen my last few posts as diatribes. Just to be clear on something I'm ...

http://brokenkode.com/on-negativity

You want to build a website? Go ahead. Any monkey with a computer connected to the internet and notepad can create a website. Everything else is a matter of scale...

http://brokenkode.com/reaching-out

So now that we've got ourselves a kick ass logo, now would be a good time to make some badges so that everyone can put them on their websites ...

http://brokenkode.com/badges

For those who know me from my professional life (I'm a Chartered Engineer), know what a complete filing freak I am. All graduates that have helped me out, or ...

http://brokenkode.com/elegance

Lets turn our attention to the main menu in Habari. As I mentioned before there has to be a better way than the current method. The reasoning for the current ...

http://brokenkode.com/menu

Minimal Design - And here I thought the new 'Kode was minimal. This site seriously takes it to the next level in certain ways. Might even use his minimal gallery ...

http://brokenkode.com/minimal-design

After a moment of pure madness, I went back to WordPress, only to find that actually the creature comforts that I had become accustomed to in Habari were not present. ...

http://brokenkode.com/and-were-back

The Google Story - Great little animation detailing the past 11 years of Google. I still remember the first time I went to Google and who recommended it to me ...

http://brokenkode.com/the-google-story

Extreme Makeover Craigslist - From the latest issue of Wired (USA version), Craiglist remade. The standout as you can imagine is KhoI Vinh's version.

http://brokenkode.com/extreme-makeover-craigslist-edition

I Can't Stop Thinking - Collection of appendix comics for Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics book. I've not read it, but these strips and his overall style of using the expanded ...

http://brokenkode.com/i-cant-stop-thinking

Design Observer redesigns - This has always been an inspiration in terms of the sheer amount of links offered and the very simple but effective design.

http://brokenkode.com/design-observer-redesigns

SourceForge Redesigned - Don't typically go there anymore as I've more or less found most of my software requirements in one way or another at the moment, however this was ...

http://brokenkode.com/sourceforge-redesigned

Busiek.com - Beautiful website. Probably one of the best looking comic book creator websites I've seen in a really long time. Loads of attention to little details that will make ...

http://brokenkode.com/busiek

@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography - Great showcase of what's to come by using the @font-face rule in CSS. Open this in Firefox 3.5 only. Tried a couple of ...

http://brokenkode.com/font-face-the-potential-of-web-typography

OokahBlog - Pascale's blog, who's in my art class (which sadly ends tomorrow evening). So much work seems to go into any one post, but some how it's a pretty ...

http://brokenkode.com/ookahblog

Wheee! - Part of the promotion in getting Firefox out to everyone, the community was called upon to create some adverts. I've never seen this before, but I did get ...

http://brokenkode.com/wheee

Scott McCloud Webcomics - It's been a while since I visited Scott's website. Not much has changed, but the great thing is the flipping through his online comics, still the ...

http://brokenkode.com/scott-mccloud-webcomics

Native Google Chrome for Mac OS X - Still version 0.1, but you can definitely see that it's still the fastest browser on the market; that and the Omnibar works ...

http://brokenkode.com/native-google-chrome-for-mac-os-x

Here & There - A horizonless projection in Manhattan. I would really be interested in something like this for London as it really does provide a unique perspective of a ...

http://brokenkode.com/here-there

Visible Tweets - A Twitter visualisation website.

http://brokenkode.com/visible-tweets

Glyphish - What a truly beautiful, simple looking site. Subtle but very well put together. Great set of icons to download as well.

http://brokenkode.com/glyphish

Tweetie for Mac - Another couple of hours, another twitter application for the Mac. Yeah, sorry Tweetie looks like it just took it all several steps further than everyone else. ...

http://brokenkode.com/tweetie-for-mac

Nambu - Native OS X twitter agent. I thought Destroytwitter would be it for me, but this is definitely the best one so far. A lot of great little features, ...

http://brokenkode.com/nambu

Spotify - A world of music. Instant, simple and free. Finally a way for me to listen to new music, from the 70s. If they can get this onto your ...

http://brokenkode.com/spotify

Bluebird - Yet another Twitter client. This however looks a little better than Twitterific, which has just stagnated, although not as good as my current twitter client of choice, Destroy ...

http://brokenkode.com/bluebird

5 years of Gmail - Happy Birthday Gmail! I started using Gmail in June of 2004, during the time when it was invitation only. People were selling them on ebay ...

http://brokenkode.com/5-years-of-gmail

MacHeist 09 - For those in the Mac community, you probably know about MacHeist. I bought last year's bundle which I believe was a hell of a lot stronger offering ...

http://brokenkode.com/macheist-09

Chrome Experiments - Crazy stuff that google's V8 engine allows you to do in Chrome. Not sure how useful, but you know experimentation breeds creativity, which breeds innovation.

http://brokenkode.com/chrome-experiments-home

Integrity - website broken link checker. Just going through it all right now but damn that's something I should have downloaded a while ago.

http://brokenkode.com/integrity

Switch Display Options - Added to my collection of options I might use for my eventual illustrations category on the site.

http://brokenkode.com/switch-display-options