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Enter at your own risk. While nothing here can hurt your computer, you may see error messages. There may be half-baked ideas or quick and dirty code samples in here. Some of these poor items will never see the light of day. All the good stuff from the Labs makes it up to the Demos section.
Fun with geography, zipcodes, area codes, latitude and longitude.
Some HTML5 test pages. Even though browser support is limited, this looks like a great update to the core language of the web. If none of these work, it is because you are either using an older browser or Internet Explorer.
Yeah, PHP.
Love it or hate it, Northwind has been a part of every Microsoft developer's education. I needed a quick and easy database to mess with tabs, gridviews and details views and I could think only of one that would work ... Adventure Works. After searching for a few minutes and not being able to find AdWorks anywhere, I went with Northwind. This is a nice example of the dashboard concept for managing data ... even if it is not normalized and old.
Here is a little test of Facebook Connect. Don't try to use this with Chrome, as Chrome seems to hate the FB javascript. Poor Chrome!
A proof of concept that uses the YouTube API from Google to create a video library. Like the Picasa API, this would let you host a video library on your website and not have to worry about writing code to manage it.