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• Burlington Farmers Market
  starts this Saturday!
  (tagged: Vermont burlington farm food )
• Privacy in the Age of Persistence
  Bruce Schneier on Security: "Data is the pollution of the information age."
  (tagged: blog future society security essay )
• Five Technologies Tim O’Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
  at ReadWriteWeb — all I can say is thank frickin' goodness "Twitter" was not on the list
  (tagged: none)
• The Problems with a Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out
  via Lifehacker
  (tagged: Mac OSX netbook hack )
• wmd
  via Justin — "The Wysiwym Markdown Editor" — this looks awesome
  (tagged: via:kapowee webdev css javascript tools ajax editor )

• Semantics in HTML 5
  at A List Apart :
  

  If we continue to be clever with the existing constructs of HTML, more problems such as this will arise. But HTML suffers from a fundamental defect as a semantic markup language—its semantics are fixed, not extensible.

  (tagged: webdev html5 accessibility microformats essay todo )
• Return of the Mobile Style Sheet
  at A List Apart
  (tagged: webdev CSS xhtml accessibility iphone mobile essay todo )
• “I won’t support IE 6 in 2009″
  at Ajaxian: Hot on the heels of Google's announcement re: Gmail. Call it a New Year's Resolution?
  (tagged: webdev IE )
• Filing Your 2008 Taxes With the Economic Stimulus (Recovery Rebate Credit)
  at Consumerism Commentary
  (tagged: money taxes todo )
• 30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009
  at Stepcase Lifehack
  (tagged: blog money todo )
• More Ajax Experience Videos: JSON and JavaScript
  at Ajaxian
  (tagged: javascript ajax video json todo )
• Diarrhea
  via Julia: she's right — it DOES make me long for a good ol' fashioned Trueschler party.
  (tagged: surreal video meme )
• On Language – Bleeping Expletives
  at NYTimes.com (via DF): Today we are going to deal with the media coverage of profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets and imprecations, nouns often lumped together by the Bluenose Generation as coarseness, crudeness, bawdiness, scatology or swearing.
  (tagged: essay writing language todo )
• Douglas Crockford: "Web Forward" on Yahoo! Video
  (tagged: javascript video todo via:fogus )

• Burlington Nights

  (tags: Burlington Vermont music)

• Tutorial: AJAX Made Easy

  via Harry Maugans (via LifeHacker): a tutorial that covers a few AJAX fundamental concepts and walks you through building a basic AJAX app.

  (tags: ajax tutorial essay todo)

• The Caffeine Database

  via LifeHacker

  (tags: brain food health caffeine science humor)

• The Twelve Commandments of Flame: The Guide to Flaming

  via MeFi: “Lie, cheat, steal, and leave the toilet seat up…”

  (tags: internet humor)

• Javascript: Prototype

  Prototype Javascript Library easing the development of dynamic web applications

  (tags: javascript framework webdev ajax reference prototype)

Earlier today we embarked on a little upgrade here at F_D. We ditched our old Kubrick bastardization (nee “Mario”) and upgraded the front-end to use the next-gen, deliciously AJAX-y K2 framework. From there, we installed a slew of supporting plug-ins and tweaked the look-and-feel until we had achieved an approximation of our wireframe from yesterday. We have dubbed this skin “Pemulis”. (Bonus points if you know where that comes from.)

So what’s the pay-off?

• Improved sidebar. From the admin side, it’s more easily maintainable/customizable through the SBM plug-in. On the user/front-end of things: better search, better highlighting of recent content, and more.
• More compatible styles. The del.icio.us link dumps should look right on the first hit now (for example). A wider content region gives us a little more wiggle room, too.
• Better tagging. We discovered Ultimate Tag Warrior (nice) which happens to be compatible with my old/existing tagging from SimpleTags (very very nice).
• Improved archives. We now have a dedicated Archives page that takes advantage of the Extended Live Archive plug-in for Chronology (time-based archives), Taxonomy (category-based archives), and Folksonomy (tags baby! – - but these still seem to work a little strangely). And the “rolling archives” feature built right onto the homepage gives instant, “no refresh required” access to all prior posts.
• Refreshed look. Our Pemulis skin on top of the K2 framework gives us a cleaner, more fluid look-and-feel with enhanced features.

So why now? Because I was sick this weekend. And it was raining anyway. And IE7 came out so (in theory) all of my old PNG woes should be a thing of the past anyway. And I tipped over 1,000 photos in Flickr. And our 1 year anniversary of switching to WordPress was coming up anyway. And/but we’ll be busy with NaNoWriMo next month. And what do you care “why now” anyway?

Enjoy. (And chime in if you see anything broken or if you like and/or hate the new look!)

currently playing: Portishead “Only You”