If you’re worth your salt in the field of web development and design, then you need to check this: http://html5boilerplate.com/

As my girlfriend is the proud owner of a Samsung N210 netbook; i found myself itching to test out Jolicloud; an OS designed entirely for Netbooks. Jolicloud 1.0 is the most recent ‘cloud-based’ operating system; it is built on an Ubuntu 9.04 build and is stripped down for lightness and speed. The essence of Jolicloud is ‘keep things online’; a harkback to the days when cloud-based computing was still in it’s infancy.

Orange Wednesday is here again! After the epic Inception last week, I thought i’d check out Vincenzo Natali’s Splice

Orange Wednesday is here again! After last weeks sci-fi horror / action thriller ‘Predators’, I thought I couldn’t get any more excited for a film… NOT TRUE!

This week’s recommendation is ‘Inception’ from the director of ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Memento’, Christopher Nolan.

Who’d have thought carbon dust physics would look so mesmerizing! Be prepared for the new wave of CGI physics…

Interesting infographic from wbsite-monitoring.com; my girlfriend asked me to look into Twitter demographics and i stumbled across this…

Be prepared for a looooooong scroll!

Came across TinEye; a ‘reverse image search engine’ today. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and they also accept contributions of complete online image collections. At the time of writing this, TinEye has indexed 1,572,822,693 images from the web to help you find what you’re looking for.

There are also a number of extensions available for the main web browsers, as well as a mature, paid-for API (designed for commercial searches etc). It is definately one to watch!

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you’ve never heard of — an RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005. Today, the “Winnebago Man” has been seen by more than 20 million people worldwide, and is regarded as one of the first and funniest viral videos. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of Rebney — and finds him living alone on a mountain top, unaware of his fame. WINNEBAGO MAN is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man’s response to unintended celebrity.

If you’re like me and have a mobile contract with Orange, you should really be taking part in Orange Wednesdays!

My recommendation for this week is sci-fi horror action flick, Predators:

A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, Predators was shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal.

The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey.

With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

Now I may be a little biased here (as i’m a huge fan of the original franchise) but i’m sure that there’s appeal to everyone in this film…

Oh… and if you’re not an Orange customer, there may be a loophole allowing you to get 2-for-1 tickets!