So this weekend I decided to bring together Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate and Wordpress. I found a few projects on the web already trying to do this... but none that really met my own requirements. That is they didn't work with the HTML5 Boilerplate build script, and they didn't make use of wordpress conventions (such as using wp_enqueue_script). The one that came the closest was by Jay George, who by the way has put together and excellent three video tutorial on how to start modifing your wordpress theme to work with HTML5 Boilerplate.
So I spent the weekend hacking away and came up with NakedCompass. Download, use it, modify it... its GPL licensed. Keep in mind it is a work in progress, so if you have any suggestions I am all ears.
In any case, this is not a tutorial... just some results I would like to share. Below are some screenshots of the the before and after optimization speed for page loads. The results may not seem all that significant... but this is a completely naked theme, so seeing any kind of difference is significant and the difference will only increase as the size of the site grows.
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