TTMMHTM: Robot Seal, Chip Tracker in HTML5, Thinking Data, CSS3 iPad, Dollar bill Origami and JS Games

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 6:33 pm
  • A [therapeutic Robot seal](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11459745) – of course Japanese – should help people with dementia and other disorders to get a new sense of caring for something. Tamagotchi / Furby on steroids and very cute to boot.
  • [Stephen fry is just lovely](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpdzQj2S6o) – and so can you.
  • It seems that Symantec’s [hack is whack competition web site](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/01/symantec_hackiswack/) was full of XSS errors which allowed people to Rick-Roll it
  • Jonathan Brodsky wrote a [Chip Tracker in HTML5 for Firefox 4](http://jonbro.tk/blog/2010/09/19/html_5_chip_tracker.html)
  • James Mansfield has an interesting discussion point when he says that [Design thinking is data thinking](http://www.jamesmansfield.id.au/design-thinking-is-data-thinking/)
  • [CSS Pad](http://csspad.quplo.com/) is an iPad make with CSS3 - shame there are no transitions when you shift from landscape to portrait
  • A stunning amount of [Dollar Bill Origami models by Won Park](http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/beautiful-origami-art-made-of-dollars-by-won-park.html)
  • [Opera is playing with wobbly bubbles as HTML5 form validation feedback mechanisms](http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/html5-forms-error-reporting-with-wobbly-bubbles) – feedback is also wanted.
  • The Mozilla Addons page uses [quite some heavy HTML5 trickery to create the statistics page under the hood](http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2010/09/30/the-new-stats-pages-on-amo/) (Webworkers, LocalStorage and Highcharts with Canvas)
  • Liquidicity has [a set of 2400 flags as icons in 3 sizes](http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/1493)
  • A collection of libraries that help you to [make your mobile web sites look like native apps](http://blog.jimmyhua.com/2010/09/30/how-to-make-your-mobile-websites-act-more-like-native-apps/)
  • Mozilla has a [JavaScript game competition](https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/) with some very cool prizes
  • A good [reason to buy a smart car](http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/129084982390483461.jpg)
  • [Good f*cking design advice](http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/index.php) is what it says on the tin