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Social Share Buttons

Ever find yourself in need of some Social Sharing assets and end up having to go to Facebook, take a screenshot and clumsily insert a placeholder for your comp? Well, Squidfingers is here to help ya out with this Share Buttons PSD. Go nab it and rest easy on procuring assets until the next social network takes off and you need their buttons.

Articles Geared Towards The Developer Type

• Best of jQuery Plugins 2011 - while I'm not often a huge fan of throwing plugins at a development solution I do think it's good to know what's out there. This list is a pretty handy place to start your year end review.
• ZURB Reveal Modal - one such situation where plugins are a bit acceptable would be a site in need of modals. This Reveal plugin cuts down on dev time and gives a real nice bit of output.
• CSS3 Toolkit - this is actually an app found in the Mac App Store to help write the code for "complex decorative CSS3 styles." I tend to use Ultimate Gradient Generator for these sorts of things but I can see an app being quite helpful.

Drawing MotionCAPTCHA, jQuery Boilerplate

• Drawing MotionCAPTCHA - "Stop Spam, Draw Shapes" is the tagline for this new style spam prevention where the user is required to roughly draw instead of typing in a nonsense pairing of words or letters. It's pretty forgiving with the accuracy and seems like a nicer way to verify that a human is using your form rather than a bot of some sort. I have my suspicions about the compliance for handicap users but it's early days yet and a solid idea like this is sure to survive.
• jQuery Boilerplate - a template for starting your own jQuery plugins. I often think plugins can be a little over the top for their own good but it's a nice, clean, setup for getting started if you're interested in partaking in such a thing. Definitely one for the bookmarks.

Things to Know About If You're Into Nerdy Topics

• Last Call for Delicious - if you aren't interested in making the switch from Yahoo! Delicious to AVOS Delicious, you need to do nothing. If you are interested in bringing along all your settings and bookmarks, make sure you've clicked the Opt-In or you'll lose everything on Sept. 23rd.
• Responsive Video Embeds - this little plugin makes it possible to have your video embeds resize properly with responsive layouts. It's possible to do this with approximately 3 lines of code but if you're more prone to plugins and pre-written goodness, go snag it!

HTML5 Infinite Mario

Yesterday I encountered Infinite Mario Bros: HTML5 - a port from the original Java version. It absolutely blows my mind whenever I encounter something this robust that's been pulled off by just using native code - not additional plugins. Infinite Mario Bros is no different.. my mind is blown.

yk 09: And the Relatives - Green Machinery

Words escape me when it comes to expressing how entirely excited I am to officially announce the debut full-length from And the Relatives. Green Machinery is now available courtesy of yk records and Theory 8 Records. You can snag the record digitally here or snag some limited edition vinyl right here.

The packaging on the vinyl is a thing of beauty that is not easy to capture with photos. The gatefold design contains the photography of the extremely talented Matthias Heiderich, screen printed with a clear overlay and custom exterior sleeve from BOSS Construct. It's nothing like the flat jpg image representing it, it's layers of beauty. Granted, I'm biased but I assure you it is awesome.

I could gush on and on about the record but I'll let you form your own opinion. Please, go listen and let it sink in.. there's much goodness to be gained from it.

→ Buy Limited Edition Vinyl
→ Buy Digital Album

And The Relatives Relaunch

In anticipation of the forthcoming yk / Theory 8 release from And The Relatives I've relaunched the bands official dot com. So, by all means, go check out the new site and then check out the new track "Not the Passion" - from Green Machinery. The song rounds out Side A of the record (when it's released) but since the vinyl manufacturing is taking quite a bit longer than anyone expected I figured it would be good to give everyone another taste of what to expect.

This also happens to be one of the best ways to showcase the photographs we licensed from Matthias Heiderich; something to look forward to with the beautiful packaging that accompanies the album.

Mutual Benefit - Spider Heaven

The latest release from Mutual Benefit is a sweet lo-fi batch of songs "recorded in the midst of an ongoing existential crisis in midwestern basements, parks, and attics." Spider Heaven is a quick listen - just under 20 minutes - but it's one of those records that is perfect for starting your day slowly or for lulling you out from consciousness. In other words, it's best listening to during the quiet times of your day.

Halloween Reminder: Shaboi

Being that it is currently October, Halloween is right around the corner. This means you should be listening to the quality releases from Shaboi at least once a day. I suggest, if you don't have it already, going to snag Curse Walk as soon as you can. You might as well snag his Caterpillar 7" while you're at it but most definitely get Curse Walk. I realize I'm coming from a very biased place in my praise for this release but, objectively, it really is the perfect companion to your Halloween rotation. I will never tire of Rapsylvania `88 and there's something undeniably refreshing when Gozer's Boombox comes through the ole headphones. However, tracks like I Once Knew a Ghoul are such a rare combo of humorous, sweet and just a little bit sad. Long story short, I ♥ Shaboi and you should too.

TV Torso - Status Quo Vadis

You may have caught this over in the oft neglected "Music News" sidebar but in case you didn't - please take a moment to check out the new TV Torso record, Status Quo Vadis. The band has put the entire album up on the ole Bandcamp for streaming and digital purchase as well as provided a link to pre-order the 12" version of the album. Having listened through the record a number of times already, I can easily endorse both decisions. Oh, and while you're over there be sure to snag the Days of Being Wild and Black Mask 7"'s.. they're free, come with bonus songs and equally enjoyable.

Destinations for The Nerd Set

• Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" - an excerpt from Code Name Ginger that describes a meeting of minds around the much touted, but mostly failed, Segway from Dean Kamen. The quotes from Steve Jobs are as outrageous as you'd hope and, frankly, the whole thing reads like Apple fan fiction; in a highly amusing manner. Via Jamie.
• jQuery Konami Code Plugin - now you can easily integrate some Easter Eggs into all your upcoming projects.
• Firefox Tab Candy - a forthcoming Firefox technology that lets you organize your tabs. I was going to devote more blog space to sharing this thing but after watching this video I'm not convinced it's anything I want to spend any time with. Tab overkill is a problem but I'm not convinced this is the solution.