Colophon

A colophon, as used in the publishing industry is:
"A brief description of publication or production notes relevant to the edition, in modern books usually located at the reverse of the title page, but can also sometimes be located at the end of the book."
- Wikipedia

On the Internet the term colophon is frequently used as a way of acknowledging those shoulders upon which this web site stands on. It's a way of thanking, footnoting, referring, providing authority or perhaps even passing on the blame.

Here are few of the many shoulders this web site kneels on and why:

Blogger
  • blogging service that charges no fee to host a domain or edit the style sheet or mask out any of its ugly bits
Fyre
  • procedural 3d-like graphics

Gapminder
  • Dr Hans Rosling and Google Motion Charts
GitHub
Google
Irfanview
HighCharts
Hypercosm
  • Thanks Abe
jQuery
jsFiddle
Katalabs
  • Thanks Henrik
Khronos
LearningWebGl
Microsoft
Mothereffingtextshadow
Mozilla
Reddit
Quantum4D
  • Thanks Mike & Kurt
StackOverflow
Three.js
Wikipedia
Yahoo Finance

More sites and more "why's" coming. Should we look at your site?

jaanga [at] googlegroups [dot] com

2011-12-30