Links for November 2, 2006

Yahoo! Food

Recipes + restaurants + how-to videos = Yahoo’s latest content offering, which just launched today. What I’d like to see: user-submitted recipes.

Dev Opera

Tutorials and forums on SVG, mobile and other aspects of web development. But the coolest part has to be the BSD-licensed JavaScript libraries. Beta launched yesterday. [Via Opera Watch]

2006 Technology Voter Guide

How your congress people voted on internet regulation. Georgia, my current state of residence, has two of the lowest-scoring House members.

Google launches new mobile Gmail

Though Gmail has been available through the mobile web, this version is a downloadable Java application.

Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 2: A few basics

A little bit of color theory for your design benefit. Also read Part 1.

Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby

Also with cheat sheats for Python, PHP, various blog packages, Windows, XML, MySQL, and Oracle.

Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup

Recommended reading about character sets, doctypes, inline-vs-block level elements and more. [Via Stylegala]

Boys Will Be Girls … for Halloween

<anthropologylesson>The short version is that Halloween, Mardi Gras, and Carnival give us the opportunity to act out and protest without repercussion, and therefore serves an important cultural function.</anthropologylesson>

Married means MARRIED you moron

A summer entry from the Best of Craigslist.