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makenosoundon What you see is what you want – thoughts on rich text editors for the web

We had some less-than-intelligent JavaScript intercepting those links, and I neglected to check that it was working — all fixed now. Appreciate the constructive comment.

makenosoundon I wrote a small piece on planned death

If you’re interested in some further discussion, Andrew Denton and The Wheeler Centre have been working through the topic of euthanasia (with a particular focus on Australia) in their Better Off Dead podcast: http://www.wheelercentre.com/broadcasts/podcasts/better-off-...

makenosoundon Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown

Not super practical, but I use [something similar on my site](http://makenosound.com/2012/10/07/going-paperless.html) as a stylistic thing.

makenosoundon Show HN: Pushing HTML5/CSS to the max for a museum touchscreen interactive

This is the online version of a project I/we (http://icelab.com.au) made for the National Museum of Australia. Originally built as a WebKit-only touchscreen, it's been deployed to one of their permanent galleries running in Google Chrome for the last couple of months.

Some technical details:

* All animation is done with CSS transitions.

* Each page is actually a separate HTML file thats pulled in via AJAX.

* A small JS wrapper handles the transitions between page states.

* The background "panograph" is built in canvas.

* We're using the History API for pushing real state into the history stack.

* It works in IE6+ with the help of JavaScript animation and VML

makenosoundon Dispatch, the simplest business model we could make work

We're a design/dev studio and we've just started selling a monthly coffee subscription. We conceived the business in one week and launched it in the next!

makenosoundon RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

There really are some great entries this year. I particularly like the implementation for "Hi, I'm" and "Table Surfing". This is our effort: http://decafsucks.com/. A site for finding and review cafés.