2008-09-20 (Saturday)
Photos
Links
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YouTube - The Late Edition - Britain’s Own War On Christmas
Watch for the first 2 minutes 30 seconds rant about Christians complaining that “Christianity is under attack”. Brilliant. (via Haddock)
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Locating Postboxes - Dracos.co.uk
Matthew Somerville’s new thing — help locate post boxes for OpenStreetMap etc.
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Citadel Miniatures
Proof that large chunks of my memories will sooner or later appear, scanned, online. Fantastic.
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David Foster Wallace (Harper’s Magazine)
Harper’s have put all their DFW writing online. ‘Shipping Out’ is one of my favourite reads. (via Kottke)
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43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders
This post and a couple of other recent ones by Merlin Mann about his refocusing have been really inspiring. Great stuff. (via Kottke and Daring Fireball)
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The School Of Life - Homepage
“A new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life.” A religion without religion? Intriguing. (via Kottke)
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Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData
Oodles of pretty and obsessive charting of personal data. (via Boing Boing)
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Daily Photo Aging Project ( photo-a-day )
(via Kottke)
Tweets
Walking home. Kids Love Lies were awesome. I feel young again. But we were probably the only people who didn't know someone in a band.
At the Cross Kings to see Kids Love Lies, Pocketbooks and whichever youngsters are playing now. Fab place, but we feel a bit old and square.
Already bumped into two separate friends. London feeling pleasantly small.
About to head toward @infovore.
After a couple of hours the novelty of the whirring hydraulic crane cleaning the windows the office across the road is wearing off.