It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The collections from 2007, 2008 and last year are still useful, but some of the themes are outdated or updated now.
Cindy at Skip to My Lou shares a really cool technique for braiding ribbon and applying it to a headband. She mentions the braided ribbon could be applied to any object or accessory, and could even be done in two tones of ribbon — via CRAFT
Miniature shrimp are adhered together to form Shrimplace, a piece by Tara Bursey. [Thanks, Garth!] — via CRAFT
A court in Tanzania has sentenced a Kenyan accused of trying to sell an albino to 17 years in jail and a fine of more than $50,000 (£41,200).
A Roman Catholic adoption charity’s appeal to be allowed to discriminate against gay people wanting it to place children with them has been rejected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cowboy wheel clampers are to be banned from operating on private land in England and Wales — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During his visit to the the Swedish capital Stockholm, Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange struck a deal with the local Pirate Party — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Seriously, people, you think some of the hatred you see spewed on threads is bad, try reading the emails sent in via the Contact form — via vikibabbles.newsvine.com
Micro pigs may be the £700 accessory du jour for celebrities including Victoria and David Beckham, but there is a catch: they may not remain micro.
HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on. Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.
The parent company of Gloria Jeans Coffee, co-owned by the Hillsong Church elder Nabi Saleh, is in ”financial dire straits” and should be put into liquidation and an investigation held into its affairs, the NSW Supreme Court has been told — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 20 former Cook County inmates have filed suit, say they were handcuffed or shackled during labor
Game developer legend John Carmack doesn’t spend all his time building rockets these days, as evidenced by a little project he showed off at QuakeCon last week: Id’s upcoming game Rage running on an iPhone at 60 frames per second. It’s pretty amazing to see — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sure, technology causes its share of headaches, but human error accounts for roughly 70% of all data-centre problems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Japanese man named Masato Nakatsuji has been arrested and accused of writing a computer virus that replaces all the files on a person’s computer with home-made manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting seemingly uncontroversial sites such as Flickr — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australians will be allowed to enrol to vote online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s hopes of getting its internet filter plan through federal parliament look destined to fail, with the Greens calling for a PC-based approach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whatever it is, Neil Patrick Harris is my generation’s feel-good gay. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s in a long-term relationship with a handsome young man with perfect hollywood-spouse credentials: a part-time actor who doesn’t steal the limelight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Greens are demanding to know how many children will be held in ‘prison-like’ detention centres following next weekend’s federal election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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