Comments I've posted on other sites
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Berlin Wall to be Rebuilt With Glowing White Helium Balloons for 25th Anniversary of Fall
They’re not “helium” balloons. If they were they wouldn’t have lights inside them, and wouldn’t…
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How designers prototype at GDS | GDS design notes
Thanks for writing this - I’m fascinated by the idea of designers who design in code, because I’ve…
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Reviewing, Digital Style | Historically Us
Thanks for the review - I’m glad you like the site. Regarding “Older versions of the site also…
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Who are the longest running UK bloggers? | troubled diva
“although the Haddock Directory closed in February 2007, and there don’t appear to be any archives”…
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The Ben Jonson House Group Blog: External Redecorations: Week 3
In the interests of keeping a record… On Monday a polite man sanded and undercoated our roof…
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The Online Photographer: The Morning Coffee 8/12/14
I’ve been using Feedbin since Google Reader closed, and love it. So many RSS-following people makes…
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Cool Tools - Feedly RSS reader
It would be useful to know why you consider Feedly to be better than other similar services you’ve…
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Crossword blog: are super-solvers born, not made? | Crosswords | theguardian.com
We’ve been trying to solve one a week (Monday’s, so usually Rufus) over lunchtimes at work, usually…
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Sherlock Phone-Box Shrine Desecrated | Londonist
I’m not sure why this is news - the phone box is cleaned up quite often, only to have the post-its…
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Shorter films (Noisy Decent Graphics)
How about trailers for movies, or the “Previously, on…” summaries at the start of TV episodes, as…
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Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield ordered to leave UK | World news | The Guardian
This is outrageous. I can’t believe things could go this wrong in this day and age. “…he wrote a…
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Letters: Peerless Wigan | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard describes Col Needham as the man who “created the Internet Movie Database” (G2, 13…
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Six degrees of IMDb founder Col Needham | Film | The Guardian
Catherine Shoard fails to even mention the huge number of volunteers who contributed the data which…
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Best aids for learning acting? - Ask Cool Tools
Like Tim Donahue said, you can’t learn how to act from a book. But they can give you some ideas to…
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Our Incredible Journey | MetaFilter
Thanks all for the interest. And, yes, I was aware of the irony of hosting the thing on Tumblr, but…
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The Online Photographer: Open Mike: Editions
I’ve been intrigued by the idea of The Best Books on any one (or all!) subject(s) for a while. Some…
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TROUBLESHOOT US? « Soul-Sides.com
I had a brainwave… I went to Facebook and logged out, then tried Soul Sides again and it loaded…
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TROUBLESHOOT US? « Soul-Sides.com
I’ve found the site really slow to load - to the point of not loading at all - for weeks, using…
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Said the Gramophone: Best Songs Of 2012
Thanks, as ever, for this Sean. So, so much I missed. That Pat Jordache track sounds very, very…
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8 reasons you should give talks | Final Bullet
On the negative side… while it’s great for the speaker, for all the reasons you cite, the idea that…
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Going to dConstruct? Help test our latest feature | The Lanyrd Blog
I realise it’s a tricky balance and this is an interesting thing to try and get right. For me, as…
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Going to dConstruct? Help test our latest feature | The Lanyrd Blog
What if you’re antisocial and unfriendly and don’t want to meet strangers…? It feels a bit creepy…
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I Miss The Guardian Editors | fabric of things
I enjoy the iPad edition, because I like just clicking through from one story to the next, so the…
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Britain flooded with ‘brand police’ to protect sponsors - Home News - UK - The Independent
It would be nice if the journalist (and commenters) didn’t over-simplify something to make a point.…
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Markdown Editing for Sublime Text 2: humble beginning - Brett Terpstra
No, the settings file stays in the same place (Packages/MarkdownEditing/). But I made a copy,…