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Recently appreciated in webbyland:

• volll is an incredible Hungarian design firm with an incredible web site that asks you to not only scroll down, but scroll up. Hat tip to them for bringing all this stuff in at just over 500k.
• Really love the NYC Subway aesthetic Filipe Fortes is using. Regarding his featured article of the moment: there is a half-assed attempt at maintaining a vertical rhythm in CF’s design, strictly via CSS, but yeah, those darn images keep throwing everything off.
• Creepy ads of the 1950s include the self-slicing pig. (An incredibly badly-drawn self-slicing pig.)
• Video of an amazing ninja dog escaping from a cage (and probably then dashing off to rescue Predator-era Schwarzenegger.)  cf.: ninja cat.

By the way, kudos to the WordPress team for including “Schwarzenegger” in their auto-spellchecker.

Some days, it feels so good to be a web geek. Earlier this week, I [two years late] discovered jQuery, a JavaScript library. It takes most of the pain out of making your fancified whiz-bang Web 2.0 pages go, go, go. Even better than that, their logo is based on the DEVO energy dome (their former tagline being “new wave JavaScript”.) I get the feeling they won’t end up getting sued over it, unlike some megacorporations.

Today, I find this:

Ajaxorized has released a GPL licensed image manipulation script called Phototype. Phototype is a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which provides image manipulation functionality. On the server, it uses the PHP/GD framework to render the image. While the client is an interface that makes these features easily accessible in JavaScript, including the ability to chain effects.

Phototype supports: image rotatation, resizing, flipping, drop shadows, effects, grey scale, captions, as well as an addChuckNorris() method [for all you Walker, Texas Ranger fans]