“Groovy Motherfucker”

Decent tower defense game. Sponsored by Microsoft, works fantastically in Chrome, no plugins required.

Hypnotic generative art.

Arcade Fire song combined with Google Maps and some JavaScript voodoo to make a lovely experience.

Canvas+Websockets+node.js == tens of people drawing on the same board. The “Time to Penis” is ridiculously short. (On my first go, I wrote “hello world”. Within 30 seconds, someone had made a smiley face of the ‘o’, and someone else was in the middle of turning the ‘h’ into a cock.)

IT’S THE NEW CHATROULETTE!

Browser VNC client, implemented plugin-free in JavaScript using HTML5 websockets and canvas. I love this future.

Holy crap, this is a cunning hack! Renders (some) SWFs in browser without the Flash plugin, using Canvas and JavaScript. Works (albeit somewhat slowly) on iPhones and iPads. Gonna be interesting to see if Adobe buy this up.

Presentation built using HTML5 to demo new HTML5 features. Runs best in a recent Google Chrome.

Stephen Fry writes about the HTML5 ogg video debacle — he’s even more geeky that I’d previously imagined. What a hero!

Good summary of the “competing” HTML/XHTML “standards”. There’s the engineering side of my brain that loves the ‘you have to close every tag’ tidyness of XHTML, but let’s face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to win this one.