2010-07-27 (Tuesday)

Comments I've posted on other sites

1. Jeremy Hunt to axe The UK Film Council - Moolies

   “I don’t know about clueless outraged Twitterers, Phil - I’m sure there were plenty of those, as…

   • 2010-07-27

2. Jeremy Hunt to axe The UK Film Council - Moolies

   Among all the Twittering, blogging outrage over this, I’m wondering how this axing of the UKFC is…

   • 2010-07-27

Links

1. Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

2. On Danny O’Brien on Shift Run Stop « Enemy of Chaos

   Leila’s reflections on Danny and NTK and geek culture and everything, plus a fascinating exchange between them over the past couple of days in the comments.

3. Oh I get it, it’s a sci-fi novel! « LRB blog

   Oh, no, David Markson died last month. The Strand Bookstore is selling off his library. Some people are trying to keep it together.

4. Pay as you go sim with data Wiki

   This could be very handy when going to Abroad.

5. Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever

   Kevin Kelly is asking people to recommend the best magazine articles ever written. Too much good stuff to read. Excellent.

6. Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary.

   I must have seen this before, but I stumbled across it again recently. Tasty.

7. Gridness

   More lovely rigorously grid-based designs than you can shake a very straight stick at.

8. The Mid-Century Modernist

   Oh. Oh. My. Too many nice things. I must lock my wallet away.

9. Git Reference

   Ooh, blimey, an actually useful and readable and understandable concise guide to Git. Phew.

10. Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)

    Good bit about the value of editors for online stuff. In my (sporadic) experience, old media are much, much more rigorous and able to Make (predictable, repetitive) Things Work than new media.

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