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2013-01-02 (Wednesday)

Writing

  1. Pepys’ Diary starting again

    The diary website and twitter account are starting again from the beginning.

Links

  1. Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins — Remains of the Day

    An interesting look at Amazon’s business, low margins. stock turnover, pricing strategies, competitors, etc. (via Migurski)

  2. London Centre for Book Arts

    New, in Hackney, devoted to artists’ books. They do classes on printing, binding, etc. (via the Guardian)

Tweets

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    @russelldavies You probably know it, but just in case, Billy Bragg’s ‘A13, Trunk Road To The Sea’: youtube.com/watch?v=QO_CT3…

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    @migurski @bobbiejohnson Oh yes, hot wax, not hot glue. Pasting up a page with hot glue would get messy.

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    @chrislunch So I hear.

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    @monkchips @mattb I hope there is such a thing… A frequently-updating Spotify playlist of his favourites would be good. No pressure Matt :)

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    @willsh Thanks, I'll have a look!

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    Having avoided Twitter over Christmas I've missed any links to good 2012 best-of music round-ups. Any suggestions?

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    @bobbiejohnson 1995 here too, at Bristol Evening Post. Scalpel, hot glue, black tape for borders and column separators.

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    @gwire I didn't read about Big Fat Quiz in the newspapers, so thanks for letting me know there's some joke I should be outraged about.

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    @alruii Have you endorsed him for anything yet?

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    @pixellent @gwire It's true, you're not crazy for that reason!

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    @gwire I was thinking that the other day, when pondering an iPad Mini as an iPhone replacement. Can't quite ditch the "phone" part yet.

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    @iamdanw He didn't know the difference between .seconds and .total_seconds(), the bufflehead.

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    @LillyLyle If only he'd tweeted the correct things!

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    RoboPepys already malfunctioning. Suspect operator error in the new software.