TTMMHTM: Mario Bento, YUI3, Accessibility Interview, wearable computing pulp fiction typography and live carbon of the UK

• “Annathered’s Bento tips”:http://annathered.wordpress.com/page/2/ complete with gems like “how to make a radish Mario mushroom”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/annathered/sets/72157620169909136/
• Klaus Komenda has another great blog post, this time explaining “the transition from YUI2 to YUI3 as a developer”:http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/07/20/first-steps-with-yui3/
• “Warcraft explained with Super Mario”:http://www.cracked.com/blog/understanding-the-world-of-warcraft-using-super-mario-brothers/ – for us older people
• Paypal started a “developer outreach blog”:https://www.paypal-talk.co.uk/ and published a “very nice interview with me on the topic of accessibility”:https://www.paypal-talk.co.uk/About-us/News-stories/News/July/Interview-with-Christian-Heilmann—Yahoo-Evangelist/ – not sure why it is https though
• MIT has some very interesting research on “wearable computers”:http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/ – soon you might me able to dial a number in your palm without the mobile
• Threadless now started to do “customizable cakes”:http://www.threadcakes.com/ (well as a contest – not overnight)
• “AMEE”:http://amee.org released “realtime carbon”:http://www.realtimecarbon.org/ showing how much every unit of electricity in the UK currently costs us in CO₂
• A “very detailed look into the etymology of computer game character names”:http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-secret-to-everybody.html dives into hitherto unknown depths of geekdom.
• A lovely (but NSFW because of swearing) “typographical animation of the famous Pulp Fiction ‘What does Marsellus Wallace look like’ speech”:http://vimeo.com/3631482

Tags: accessibility, amee, animation, bento, cakes, carbon footprint, computer games, computing, etymology, game characters, mario, mit, paypal, threadless, typography, video, wearables, wow

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