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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.
Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:22PM (#11632410)
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-...
Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown on Friday April 10, 2015 @07:54PM (#9357741)
Not super practical, but I use [something similar on my site](http://makenosound.com/2012/10/07/going-paperless.html) as a stylistic thing.
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

Re:Dispatch, the simplest business model we could make work on Monday December 13, 2010 @07:42PM (#2002603)
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!
Re:RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @02:16AM (#784294)
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.