links for 2008-06-05

• Design Meltdown
  stuck for inspiration, or just feel the need to keep up with current trends? Look no further than this massive collection of web page screenshots; + tips and tricks and a creditable attempt at building a design taxonomy
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration css web trends gallery colour meltdown)
• 25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” ~ Authentic Boredom
  ornaments, fleurons, vignettes, embellishments, or in some cases, frippery – all ready to plug into a likely web project (steam punk anyone?)
  (tags: design ornaments resources graphics webdesign typography brushes art)
• retrievr – search by sketch / search by image
  one very strange application – just paint something in the square and you’ll see what I mean
  (tags: flickr photography sketch retrievr art images)
• Flickr API – ProgrammableWeb Profile
  more flickr toys than you could possibly play with in a lifetime of idle web browsing
  (tags: api flickr mashup photography images tools)
• Introduction to language testing and C-Tests
  the goods on creating and using c-tests for assessing language skills
  (tags: clozure cloze ctests c-tests ctest c-test english language)