An open source JavaScript web application testing framework that combines Selenium, jQuery, QUnit and Envjs and your debugger of choice (such as Firebug). Looks interesting.

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This site's entire purpose is to highlight articles that are too long for the Web browser, but perfect for those who use and love Instapaper. What a great idea.

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An excellent post breaking down one man's journey to create the perfect oven-made chicken wing. For those of us who've never been happy with our experiments, this one holds promise (hint: baking powder and overnight refrigeration).

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A useful collection of design patterns and user interfaces.

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A large set of resources for those who use Illustrator for wireframes. It includes 290 free vectors icons and 200 graphic styles, all free to use. This looks very useful indeed.

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There are some nice tips in here, even for those of us who've read and/or written dozens of similar posts.

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"Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library. "
- from the site's about page.

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I didn't realize Google hosts the HTML 5 Shiv in addition to the other JavaScript frameworks that it's kind enough to provide the community. Nice!

If you want to use HTML 5, the shiv is pretty well a requirement as Internet Explorer (up to and including IE 8) doesn't support the new elements in the spec. Plus it's easy to implement and will only be downloaded by the browsers that need it.

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Dave Rupert provides an excellent breakdown of how to speed up your WordPress-powered site. There's no excuse to not spend the time implementing these changes. Even if you're like me, and have already done a lot of the work, I'm willing to bet there's a step or two that will make your site even better. For me, it's the super-duper-easy cut-and-paste improvements to the htacess file to enable gzip and browser caching.

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An interactive exploration of the methods that could be used to add an extra star to the American flag.

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This carousel plugin is extremely easy to implement and given the great set of options, very flexible

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Lemons fresh from my smoker

For the curious, they smoked at 200 – 225° for an hour using a mix of charcoal and pecan. They’ll be used in this smoked lemonade recipe. Hat tip to Leesa for sending me the link.

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A very useful utility to add tabs to the Finder in addition to other tweaks like listing folders above files in the file lists.

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John Battelle in response to Only Disconnect

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Exactly what the site's title says it is – pictures of amazing bookshelves. Yeah it's nerdy – that's why I like it.

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Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Cards for Developers

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