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Tim Tomkinson

The BBC have removed the hCalendar microformat from their site due to accessiblity issues with the ABBR design pattern.

TechCrunch’s take on Elevator Pitches has started taking content. One startup, 60 seconds, Go! ThoughtFarmer looked interesting.

Scott Gledhill’s presentation Real World Web Standards podcast and slideshow from Web Directions.

PPK has made the slides available from his Unobtrusive JavaScript presentation at An Event Apart Boston.

The 2008 Penguin Design Award Winners and Shortlist.

Joshua Porter has linked to a 2003 email from Bill Gates where he complains about the usability issues he has with the Windows interface. The email is a significant reminder that we can’t just assume people can use an interface. Often what we see as being evident isn’t to others - even the CEO. I’m sure millions of people out there had the same WTF moments as Big Bill. I wonder if we’re just as guilty of making user assumptions or providing incomplete contextual cues with the work we’re doing ourselves?

WP Generator Blog is an application that lets you create WordPress blog themes without understanding the underlying code. Its pretty cool really - although we spit on WYSIWYG anything here, naturally. Learn to code maybe.