Outside stories in April 2008

• The Stats Are In. YouTube Really Is A Turd (via zyt) +
• Ask H&FJ : Ampersand (via DF) +
• My photo stolen for a global wide Lee campaign! (via lekke) +
• 5ThirtyOne: WordPress 2.3+ official support for custom database error page. I always missed this, but didn’t know it exists. +
• Push. Click. Touch. +
• Joel Spolsky: Fire and Motion +
• The Wrong Way to Lock a Bike +
• I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game +
• Design Intellection: This is How You Get sIFR to Work +
• How I fixed my WP image/media uploader and general wp-admin problems in 2.5.1 +
• NETTUTS, a little sister of excellent PSDTUTS +
• Css Globe: 4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links +
• For those of us who always wanted to try driving a digger: Diggerland (via zyt) +
• WP Remix: WordPress as CMS +
• From the original creators of stylegala.com: DevKick redesign. Via Rainfall +
• 32 Amazing Inspirational Pieces of Graphic Artwork +
• IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. +
• The history of computer data storage, in pictures +
• Browser font rendering and antialiasing — Windows vs. Mac +
• A PHP script for removing Thumbs.db, .DS_Store, MacOS hidden and other annoying files +
• aplus momenti Easy going, crisp and light. +
• LifeHacker — ask the readers: Best First Programming Language to Learn?. “The more I hear about people automating things with scripts and programs they write themselves, the more it seems that being able to write code is a good skill to have—at any job. I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested in maybe becoming one. What's the best language for someone who's savvy but still very much a beginner to learn?” +
• Nathan Smith: 960 Grid System Framework +