Chris’ Weekend Links – December 17th

The “New” Seven Wonders of the World This is a neat project: vote on what you think should be the new seven wonders of the world.

Some interesting sites: 456 Berea Street for the good web standards and coding articles Aaron Post for his interesting questions Advertising/Design Goodness because every day there’s a new advertisement to look at with an interesting twist Ajaxian because of the cool layout and because AJAX is cool Avalonstar for the cool articles and witty comments…

I admit that I am a convert to shopping on Black Friday. I actually needed a USB Thumb Drive today for a server set up, and decided to stop at Staples. It also happened to be 5 minutes after 6 am. Sure enough, a crowd had swarmed upon the Staples like relentless flies, hoping to…

More random artwork on the whiteboard here at Tornado Design (courtesy of Andrew Smith and Kent Downer). Pretty funny stuff, as far as… stuff… goes…

The Scottsdale Times Visits Local Offices — I think this is pretty cool. Term Sheets — Yuck. Understanding Term Sheets — Good article. AutoSuggest: An AJAX auto-complete text field — Could be useful to someone. Old School — Amazing stuff. VisiCalc runs on modern computers — Give it a try! It’s the first spreadsheet. BuildV1.com…

If you don’t use any Windows XP login security, then you can skip this article. Otherwise, if you are like many Windows XP users who have to enter a password every time their computer sluggishly boots up, then read this! Ok. Here’s the scenario: You have to wait 2 minutes while your computer turns on….