Hohli Charts (I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that) steps you through building the query string around generating a Google Chart. The interface is a bit clumsy, but it sure beats wading through API documentation and building them yourself.

Someone is chopping the heads off posters in the Shoreditch area. Check out the decapitators set here

Well, it's the first FTF of 2008, brought to you by Loïc and Callum:

Loïc (as you might know) likes a label and sent me these weeks ago.

And Callum's been to the National Railway Museum in York, which is (probably) a brilliant place and, because it's a national museum is free to get into.

As ever, all contributions accepted with thanks here.

It’s Friday! Happy New Year! We are upon another weekend. It feels like we’ve got weekends coming out the wazoo lately.

While I’m looking at web sites for presidential candidates, I can’t help but mention how nice the Ron Paul 2008 web site looks. It’s very clean.

SBJ is right on the money (and Obama just won Iowa!). I've been telling people about president Obama for the last couple months and this is precisely why.

Whoever it was that redesigned the Barack Obama for President web site sure did a great job. It’s slick!

Most readers who, like myself, have been in the position of trying to find skilled people to hire during last year will probably agree that talent is hard to hire in the web industry right now. Most of the people you would want to hire seem to have good jobs that they're happy with already.

Well, it doesn't hurt to extend your reach if you're hiring, so why not start 2008 by giving Authentic Jobs a try if you haven't already done so in your hunt for talent. You'll reach the best of the best when it comes to modern, standards-aware web design and development.

Use the promo code BEREA08 and you will get a 50% discount if you place your job listing no later than January 15. The discount applies to both full-time and freelance listings, and you still have the money-back guarantee.

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[Images: Mitsubishi's new elevator testing tower in Japan].

Mitsubishi has opened a "test tower," built for experimental new elevator designs and technologies. It's "the world's tallest elevator testing tower" – and it's a functionalist monolith, standing at 567 feet.
It's just one gigantic elevator shaft.
The building will be used "to conduct research into high-speed elevators to serve the next generation of super-tall buildings," including stress tests on "new drives, gears, cables and other lift systems."
I see at least one scene from Mission Impossible IV being filmed here – there's some sort of world-destroying nuclear device hidden above that vertical maze of moving platforms and our hero's got to find it... Or perhaps some future game world called Batman: Japan, in which the Caped Crusader lives and works entirely in various locations throughout the Japanese archipelago, burning incense and punching through Cor-Ten steel blocks in an underlit dōjō near the sea. One night he follows a lone criminal back to what looks like a vertical fortress... only it's not a fortress: it's this weird experimental elevator complex looming over him in the darkness.
He enters.
He hears machines.
Hijinks ensue.