Animation by Esteban Diácono
Music by Olafur Arnalds

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Thanks to Justin of Materialicious for the tip.

Make all websites easy to read -- check!

Normally I just click delete on these but, this one is pure gold. Enjoy.

From Miss Alice Williams
Abidjan. Cote D'Ivoire,
West Africa.
Email:alice_williams_a23@yahoo.co.jp

Hello dear,

With profound respect and humble submission, I beg to state the following few lines for your kind consideration, I hope you will spare some of your valuable minutes to read the following appeal with sympathetic mind. I must confess that it is with great hopes, joy and enthusiasm that I write you this mail which I know and believe by faith that it must surely find you in good condition of health. My name is Miss Alice Williams, I am the only daughter of my late parents Mr.and Mrs D.Williams. My father was a highly reputable business magnet who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad on the 12th September 2004. Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of mine who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth! My mother died when I was just 6yrs old, and since then my father took me so special.

Before the death of my father on September 2004, he called me and informed me that he has the sum of (USD$2,500,000.00) he deposited in a private Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.. He told me that he deposited the money in my name, and also gave me all the necessary but legal documents regarding to this deposit with the Bank

I am just 23 years old and a university undergraduate and really don't know what to do. Now I want an honest and GOD fearing partner overseas who I can transfer this money with his assistance and after the transaction I will come and reside permanently in your country till such a time that it will be convinient for me to return back home if I so desire. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I also want to invest the fund under your care because I am ignorant of business world.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask these few questions:

1. Can you honestly help me from your heart?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the fund has being transfeered to your account and i come over to meet you ?

Please, consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immedaitely I confirm your willingness, I will send to you my Picture and also inform you more details involved in this matter.Kind Regards,please reply through my private email above for security reasons,

Miss Alice Williams

~ via Boing Boing

17 creative websites to bookmark (unless you are dumb!)

Most of these are free and all of them are awesome.

• The Git Book
• GitCasts
• Git Ready
• Git Peepcode
• Insider's Guide To GitHub w/ Scott Chacon (first episode's free!)

Thank you, little fellow, you just made my morning.

Sit down, be present, and watch this all the way through.

I decided to make a Fluid instance for ruby-doc.org and there wasn't anything shiny out there so I went ahead and put this together based on their existing logo.

Download

The Desktop Wallpaper Project was started in 2007 to commemorate the release of Radiohead's In Rainbows. And, it is by far the sickest single accumulation of designer wallpaper I've ever seen.

The Desktop Wallpaper Project

I have enough trouble concentrating as it is but, this one is worth mentioning.

Jumpman is everything you love about early 80's side scrollers with an artfully awesome, contemporary twist. And, it's free. I just wish the song from the video was actually in the game.

Download

~ via Boing Boing

I've been really getting into TaskPaper lately and being a nerd and a control freak I had to fiddle around a make a theme that was perfect for my needs.

I minimized the visual emphasis of tags because, the only time I want to see them is when I'm writing them.

I chose green instead of red for tasks marked with @today and @overdue because, red makes me feel stressed about my workload and green feels friendly and makes me want to work on stuff.

Download | Gist

Even if you don't agree with my design decisions (oh the horror) this would probably make a good starting point for your own theme because I touch on a lot of features of the template system and I spent some extra time making the code legible (yucky XML).

~ via Boing Boing

Beast Pieces Dolce Press

Thanks to Chris Tingom for the heads up on Dolce.

~ via Smashing Magazine

cardobserver.com

Brilliant!

~ via Core77

Having just switched to vim, I've been spending a lot of time searching for learning resources. Sadly I've found a lot of the available content a little too 'spock ears' for me.

Luckly, mileszs has a running list of awesome vim learning materials.

~ via the GitHub Blog

It's a super-easy way to create an excerpt of an Active Record field for posts and such.

Stop by github page to learn more.

Just came across this sweet little app that helps you visualize your Twitter following by scraping the bios of your subscribers. It's called Twittersheep.

~ via Bre Pettis | I Make Things

Came across this excellent screencast on the subject.

I really like this fellow's blog in general -- lot's of good front-end stuff.

Came across this awesome video on +KN | Kitsune Noir.

Last night at Gangplank I was sitting next to Remi and I saw him typing something like this in his address bar:

gith blackbox

After he hit enter and I saw github search results appear on his screen I asked exactly what black sect he belonged to.

He assured me that it was in fact not Satan's work but rather something called YubNub.

Somehow that was less helpful... at least at first. YubNub describes itself as "a (social) command line for the web". Basically, people (including you) create commands that can be passed to YubNub and get parsed into useful actions.

For example you can type:

ls google

... and get a listing of all the commands that have to do with Google. And, It appears to do way more than that.

So that brings me to RubNub which is the mayonnaise in this sandwich of awesomeness.

RubNub is a Firefox plugin that passes your address bar input through YubNub. So, you basically end up with a command line in FF.

It's like having every search bar engine installed (including one's that don't exist) and it's much faster because you don't touch the mouse.

Definitely worth checking out.