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  1. Urban Sketchers: all i want for christmas is…

    Maybe you missed something when you looked through the grille, or maybe what the man thought was…

  2. My First Website | Jason Santa Maria

    Here’s my first site from 1995. That size made more sense on a 640×480 monitor. Obviously, I’d just…

  3. Meish dot org » What’s Next?

    I’ll second ‘Deadwood’, although it’s another one of those that finishes suddenly and too early. Oh…

  4. The only watch to ever go to the moon… on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Nearly all watches have that time in adverts, catalogues etc. People have suggested many reasons…

  5. Yes We Can remix: Lee Dorsey’s funk classic meets Obama speech - Boing Boing

    In a similar vein to the Z-Trip mix is King Most’s excellent Obamix:…

  6. And Another Thing: For God’s sake, stop asking Randy Newman about “Short People”

    I’m reminded of this review of PJ Harvey’s ‘Uh Huh Her’ by Greil Marcus: “That’s the problem with…

  7. Infovore » “Campaigns you can interact with”: not ARGs, and perhaps better off for it

    “That’s actually one of the biggest problems facing ARGs: getting away from that timeboxed nature.”…

  8. Soul sides: The Soul Sides’ “Under Covers” Mix for Dublab.com

    Thanks for this, lovely stuff. One thing: You missed Afrosound’s, ‘Jungle Fever’ off the track…

  9. Rodcorp: London Art fairs in October 2008

    Thanks Rod, interesting. The only exhibition I’ve been to recently was the ICA Auction exhibition……

  10. Rodcorp: London Art fairs in October 2008

    You should do tours of some of them. Whenever I look at modern art these days I feel like a…

  11. Noisy Decent Graphics: Play Small

    “Working at a really small scale is something you’ll be familiar with if you’ve been lucky enough…

  12. Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Do We Really Need Another Hitchhiker’s Book?

    ‘And Another Thing’? [notanotherthing.com]

  13. Mac 101: Using your Windows keyboard - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

    If you’re using a UK Windows keyboard (I don’t know about other nationalities) then you’ve only…

  14. …and another thing! - Jesus jumped up christ!

    Yay!Congratulations! Excellent stuff.

  15. Noisy Decent Graphics: Who wins the first set wins

    The previous thing about whoever scores first in football shouldn’t be a surprise. You’re…

  16. Conferences and Corridors - Vox

    Although the idea of a conference with no talks appeals I think it would need some kind of…

  17. Conferences and Corridors - Vox

    While few of dConstruct’s talks thrilled me, the conference is pretty good for the socialising…

  18. Wonderland: Xbox points

    Yup, I had a similar problem when I ordered an iPhone on CarPhoneWarehouse.com. The order never…

  19. Roo Reynolds - We could be guitar heroes

    Kevin Kelly just posted a bit more about music controllers, specifically mentioning the Guitar Hero…

  20. Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements [Updated]

    British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise did some ads for Atari in the 1980s. Here’s one, with a…

  21. Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka » Blog Archive » on being a bit of an idiot

    For the past few years while I’ve been doing this acting stuff I’ve been failing miserably at…

  22. Traffic cams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget - Boing Boing

    Here in the UK, where we lead the world in cameras spying on our citizens, complaints like this…

  23. *cough* on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    My first written assignment (of very few) when I started Graphic Design was based on reading ‘Ways…

  24. Cityofsound: 2030

    Around the turn of the century most future visions seemed to focus on 2020. I wonder at exactly…

  25. Kevin Kelly — The Technium - Neo-Amish Drop Outs

    In 2007 Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, wrote about how he’d given up on email:…

  26. Mostly This: iQueue and Queue and Queue

    Oh, and as to “groaning systems”… the sign up process seemed to go smoothly - no hiccups or…

  27. Mostly This: iQueue and Queue and Queue

    You must have taken this not long after I left with my iPhone. The queue was quicker than expected…

  28. Wonderland: R2-D2 USB hub and kite

    I think I remember there being R2-D2 kites back in the day when I lusted after such merchandise.…

  29. Mostly This:

    “Wasabit opens”: Not yet. It’s looked like that for a long, long time, without even removing the…

  30. Running Movable Type on OS X with FastCGI - Neil Turner’s blog

    Thanks for this Neil - very helpful. I had one problem. When installing mod_fastcgi I got an error…

  31. Welcome Movable Type 4.2 | MovableType.org - Home of the MT Community

    “Simply upgrading from Movable Type 4.1 to 4.2 can increase publishing times by 33%” Should be…

  32. Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » Adding multi-stop trips

    I realise this would be complicating something nice and simple, but… Let’s say I’m going on a trip…

  33. Art and Heart: Place cart before horse, engage

    Coincidence… I’m also feeling relaxed about end of term presentations and I’m enjoying Creation…

  34. Peeling sign (would make nice typeface) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I love peeling signs and have had the same “would make a nice typeface” thought:…

  35. Mildly Diverting: RSS aggregation as a friend filter

    We each need a secretary who can compile a weekly or monthly summary of all the interesting bits of…

  36. Urgent WordPress Automatic Upgrade Update

    In case it helps, I just manually upgraded to WP 2.5 and when I click ‘Activate’ for this plugin…

  37. Pruned: Prunings XL

    Thanks for the heads-up on the Desire Paths group. I’ve added my photo (the last one) to the group…

  38. Russell davies: 4 x 4 meme thing

    I had a weekly paper round (in the mid 1980s) and had the same issue with one or two people…

  39. Los Campesinos on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    Excellent, glad you got to see them in the end! And yes, You Me Dancing beats the other candidates…

  40. Paul Linford: My Top 10 Political Speeches

    Re the principles vs power issue… I haven’t read or seen Kinnock’s speech, but I’m guessing he was…

  41. Barbican II on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    These blocks aren’t really “council”… well, the landlord is the City of London, but all the flats…

  42. On Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    The freeholder is still the City of London, but it’s selling off the remainder of the leases as the…

  43. On Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I live there and it’s very nice! It’s surprisingly quiet for central London - mainly because the…