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Ran across a link to this site. Really cool news aggregator for some good web standards and CSS design sites/blogs.
Definitely worth a peek.

Don’t Meet Your Heroes - The CSS & Web Standards News Compilation Site

Here is an article on Lifehacker listing ten of the authors favourite bookmarklets. There are a few good ones in the list.
Also a link to a bookmarklets site with even more handy bookmarklets.
There are nifty little helpers for any number of browser functions. In fact, I am blogging this with a bookmarklet right now.

Top Ten Bookmarklets

Here is a quick link to an article and free e-book about Seth Godins newest tech venture.
One of the first people I know of, to promote RSS and related technologies to the Marketing world, this is his new take on the web and what will make it better.
The focus of his new idea, is to use concept of a lens, to focus a users search for information. The first step in this direction, is his new venture SQUIDOO.
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Check out this great list of free Win32 software for every purpose.
Includes some old favourites, and many apps I never knew existed.
This is a really impressive list of software–Get your bandwidth ready for plenty of DL’ing.

Pricelessware –Best Of–

Being a dog lover, this seems like a neat idea, albeit very Japanese.
This new concept car from Honda, sports a “cubby” hole in the front dash, that your dog can hang out in

(Japanese Translation)If the extra seat which is received under the floor is produced and the pad of the seat back and the bearing surface is caused, you turn quickly to the center crate which it can ride to the medium-sized dog. If the lid before the suicide seat is opened, it is possible to place the small-sized dog, the instrument panel crate appears.

If that makes no sense, check out the pictures on the translated web site.
Basically a cool dog friendly car.

Honda W.O.W. Concept

The Inquirer(not the Enquirer), has confirmed that Google is a go on Online Office.
The deal will allow Google to enable online users’ access to Star Office through a browser.
Another part of the deal, will bundle the Google Toolbar as an optional install with the Java Runtime Environment.
Sounds like M$ could be in some big trouble here. Check out the webcast of the original announcement.

And the article form The Inquirer-
Google formally declares war on Microsoft

Here is a good, quick and dirty tutorial on how to mod your Xbox.
Come November, I imagine a lot of people will be taking the leap to do this.
Only once the Xbox 360, takes over the TV in your parents basement.

TechFreaks –Mod your Xbox

In the continuing vein of my Ajax related posts, here is a link to an interesting Ajax toolkit, that simplifies the front end of content creation greatly.
Simplicity really is the key to making these technologies popular and viable.

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