2012-09-24 (Monday)
Links
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Bookslut | WE WILL CONVERT THE KING IF POSSIBLE: The Greatness of Little Magazines
Really worth a read. “The Web, one would think, opens up all kinds of possibilities for imaginative typography or design a la BLAST, but adventurous publishing like that is rare. Why? The pageviews-for-cash, keywords-are-compulsory bottom line? Laziness? Dullness?” (via Magazine Modernisms)
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Modernist Journals Project
“Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.” Fab.
Tweets
@tedmills Private jets would have automatically-retracting roofs like sports cars.
@iamdanw A disappointing lack of image macros in Pepys comments last time round. Maybe it should be a condition of me doing it again…
You are in a maze of twisty third-party code packages, all of them not quite working in unalike ways. west. You go home.
@Natbat Sure, come on over!
@lanyrd A small parcel has arrived for you at Scrutton St. It’s now safely waiting on my desk in the BRIG.
@minor9th You’re on your own. Make me proud!
Back-End Development Butterflies.
@cityofsound See also clever radios which have to wake/sleep Linux before playing... (our Pure Evoke Flow does this). V “unradio” behaviour.
Discovering a useful snippet of code online that does just what I want. Then noticing I posted it there two years ago. I’m losing it.
Liked tweets
Odd thing Lib Dem conference. It's about discussing all the policies they would pursue if only they didn't have power.