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Here's another way to hide Google's awful SearchWiki images with Adblock Plus.

This Greasemonkey script will hide the new Google SearchWiki buttons. Strange that Google doesn't offer a way to opt-out of this feature.

Nice JavaScript date picker.

Scandal is our growth industry.

Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data.

Greebles, Nurnies, Tiles, and Flair--a talk by Michal Migurski about interace design.

"COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews."

"Few men dare ask the question 'What is toffee, exactly?' All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane." [via schampeo]

Smashing table designs.

Looks nice!

Amazon bookmarklet that lets you add items from any site to your Amazon wishlist. [via glass]

Yahoo Music is shutting down and their customers are losing their music. Ed Felton reminds, "Yahoo deserves blame here, but let's not forget who else contributed to this mess."

"Here are ten things newspapers could do, right now, to improve the quality of the comments on their sites."

Jason's Twitter-killer: plain text file on a server. Someone write an aggregator and we've got the distributed holy Twitter grail.

Eclipse plugin for ColdFusion development.

Fun web app for creating tiled backgrounds. [via MeFi]

The trouble with attention-focused modal overlays such as lightbox, and why asynchronous trays and sliders are better. [via migurski]

Blog by book cover designer shows how some covers evolve. [via Book Design Review]

Blog by Kevin Kelly about "Tools for knowing your own mind and body." [via peterme]

A Web2.0 presentation by Matt Jones and Tom Coates on organizing our personal data. [via peterme]

[via magnetbox]

Lots of trails around Corvallis I didn't know about. I have my work cut out for me this summer.

"In this paper, EFF offers some suggestions, both legal and technical, for best practices that balance the needs of OSPs and their users' privacy and civil liberties."

This Yahoo! Stencil Kit looks like a good way to mock up iPhone apps in Illustrator. [via CreativeTechs Tips]

"Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time." Looks like nifty web app.

tl;dr

A web comic about branding. [via Brand New]

The Web's favorite tinsmith resigns his post with the Yahoo Web Trust for a more pastoral way. [via waxy]

Some clever CSS/JavaScript hacking that determines which sites on a list someone has visited. Used for questionable good here, but could be a privacy nightmare. [via hackszine]

"...good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented." [via swissmiss]