TTMMHTM: New evangelism handbook chapter, safe browsing, challenging IE6, free teaching resources and an answer to the question if hamsters can be milked

Things that made me happy this morning:

• I finished a “new chapter for the Developer Evangelism Handbook – dealing with your own company”:http://developer-evangelism.com/internal.php
• Google has a “safe browsing API“:http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/ that allows you to tap into their malware and spyware database. Sadly enough there is no search or match function – only load a full list of MD5 hashes – and the docs are not the easiest to understand.
• At a recent State Department Town Hall Meeting, “one of Hillary Clinton’s staffers asked why IE6 was still mandated”:http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/03/hilary-ie6-and-the-state-of-the-state-department/. Attagirl, more of this – challenge the laziness.
• You can browse “WordNet – the database that Google’s AdSense content matching was based on”:http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/
• Simon Whatley has “10 commandments of social media”:http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/the-ten-commandments-of-social-media
• A nice explanation of “rounded corners with CSS3“:http://www.bloggingcss.com/en/tutorials/the-css3-border-radius-property/ although it is more of a “here’s how to do it in Firefox and Safari”.
• Apparently “you can milk hamsters”:http://www.springerlink.com/content/ebhlwyfydhlj5gtj/ – there is even a book about it.
• A splendid “Wall-E/Star Wars photo mashup from Worth1000″:http://www.cinematical.com/photos/celebrity-star-wars/2065863/
• “Space War”:http://virtualgs.larwe.com/iPhone/space/ is a cute little game for the iPhone in CSS/JS/HTML/
• Another nice “colourblindness simulator”:http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ – please, do not add another badge, even if you succeed the test.
• “OER commons”:http://www.oercommons.org/ is a great resource for free teaching and learning content
• Some very sweet “Eco friendly packaging concepts”:http://designreviver.com/articles/eco-friendly-packaging-concepts/

Tags: accessibility, adsense, colourblindness, css3, developer evangelism, eco, hamsters, ie6, learning, materials, milking, packaging, recycling, roundedcorners, safebrowsing, socialmedia, starwars, teaching, tips, wall-e, wordnet

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