Q&D Links #19 – with links from @reddit, @leaverou, @smashingmag and more.

  • Windows Phone 8 video leaked – Though I’m a big fan of iOS, my earliest memories of computing post-C64 are of DOS, Windows, so I have a soft spot for MS. Windows 7 is strong and Microsoft’s foray into phones is interesting. – via Ars Technica
  • duckduckgo.com – Next-gen search engine. – Lots of people are talking about DuckDuckGo, and with good reason. It’s a highly customizable, minimal, accurate search engine that’s gaining a lot of ground in the wake of Google’s recent privacy updates. – via numerous sources on Twitter
  • Free box of mush. – Extra! Extra! Get your hearts and kisses here!- via Smashing Magazine
  • Thailand first wind of oncoming censorship storm. – A little while back I tweeted about Twitter enabling per-country censorship but wanted to make clear that Twitter has simply enabled the feature, they’re not the ones doing the censoring. Thailand, in a not unexpected move, has made steps to utilise this new feature. – via Hackernews
  • jQuery roundup. – All the plugins that are fit to print. The world is going soon be a place where that reference won’t be understood. Plugins. Get ‘em. – via More Tech Tips
  • The CSS3 test – Chances are if you’re a web designer that knows anything about CSS, you’ve heard of Lea Verou. She recently started a little script known as prefix-free that you might have heard of. Now she brings us the CSS3 test. – via @leaverou
  • Extreme Beer Fest – This weekend, beer lovers will flock from far and wide to Boston. There they’ll take part in Extreme Beer Fest, a craft beer festival sponsored by Beer Advocate and Dogfish Head. – via Reddit
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