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I’ve been using Dummyimage.com for generating placeholder images for a while now, but it seems there are now at least two three alternatives; Placekitten.com for when you need cute, and Placesheen.com for when you don’t. Placehold.it seems to be pretty much a clone of dummyimage.com. And if you need a noisy background image, look no further than NoisePNG.

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• Vimcasts
• VIM From Novice To Professional, part 1, part 2, part 3

(I’m always looking out for good resources to refer people to when they find they need want to learn using vim, feel free to add your own favourites as comments.)

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Dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code.

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The Art of Unix Programming

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Photographing the streets of New York 1968-1978

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Der Spiegel: A Vision in Concrete

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How to be a retronaut

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Don’t fear the internet. A series of video tutorials on how to create webpages in a professional manner.

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JavaScript is Dead. Long Live JavaScript!

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Worlds Biggest Pacman

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GIRP, from the same people that brought you QWOP. 25,1m 36,8m 64,3m 75m (win!) is the score to beat.

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IE6 Countdown

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How to deal with planned site downtime

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In addition to being a black hole for office time, Canvas Rider is quite a nice testament of what todays JavaScript engines and the canvas element makes possible without requiring any kind of plugins.

PS. Check out the tracks by gongo999, they’re pretty awesome.

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Google explains the internet to your granny, or 20 Things I learned about browsers and the web.

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