The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words.

To participate you need to remove all CSS from your website, stripping it entirely of its design. However, I only noticed this today (too late for once) so I’ll be in for next year, for sure!

To read more about this initiative, and have a look at how a lot of your fellow bloggers look in the “nude, then you should visit naked.dustindiaz.com

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.

Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites (requires signing up), and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

Click the preview picture below to give it a try:

As an alternative you might also want to check out the new browser version of Photoshop, Photoshop Express. As with (almost) any Adobe product this requires registration but my first impression was very good. I will post about this later…

escaloop allows you to build a list of up to 20 RSS feeds — feeds like your latest del.icio.us bookmarks, your recent Twitter activity, your new blog posts, your newly uploaded Flickr images, just to name a few — which it will then sort, clean up and tastefully arrange in a concise, neat and pretty list on your own site.

By the way: escaloop is not considered “beta”, but things might still break, what with it being a personal side project. Enjoy!

Supported services:

• del.icio.us
• Flickr
• Google
• Google Reader
• LastFM
• Livejournal
• Magnolia
• Pownce
• StumbleUpon
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Vox

There are no user accounts. When you first set up your escaloop badge, you’ll get a so-called “escaloop ID”, which can be used to change or adjust your badge’s configuration later on.

Just a quick post to let you all know that Mozilla has released a security update for Firefox earlier today. The latest version 2.0.0.13 fixes several critical security vulnerabilities. More information can be found on their website.

Thunderbird is also affected, but an update has not yet been released.

The latest release can be downloaded here.

The Google employees that make our favourite cool Google services often go unrecognised. But that’s not the case with Google Street Views. In a rare Google display of self-acclaim. the Google Street View team posed in the back of the company’s Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California in–you guessed it–a Google Street View.