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  1. W. Brian Arthur vs Silicon Roundabout, ‘Start-Up Britain’ and other shake-and-bake approaches « Magical Nihilism

    Matt Jones on how you can’t just conjure an area like Shoreditch out of thin air and tax incentives. These things — locations, industries, technologies — take time and long-term ideas.

  2. Ipswich man in Japanese Earthquake, in 1923 | Kindred Spirit

    My grandad’s account of his amazing survival in the Yokohama earthquake in 1923 at the age of 21, including photos. (This little link seems far too brief for something like this.)

  3. Potlatch: An open letter to the hipster

    Will Davies calling on hipsters to be more politically aware (to very crudely summarise). Reminds me a bit of Adam Curtis at The Story talking about how the stories we tell online ignore the political structure of the net. (via Tom Taylor)

  4. Exquisite Tweets from @kaygeeuk, @Danny_Saxby, @m1ndy9876, @MissEllieMae, @ARRJAYKAY, @BenDylan, @kevmcveigh, @squashypigeon, @sliderulesyou, @oliverburkeman

    Highly edited (none of the retweets for a start) version of the “Sky reporters offered protestors £25 to throw bricks” rumour spreading on Twitter, curated by me.

  5. Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog

    Nice description of how Foursquare developed their tool for recommending places to you in Foursquare v3. (via Tom Taylor)

  6. If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next

    Another lovely twee-sounding club night in London. (via @revdancatt)

  7. Balsamiq

    Very nice-seeming Flash-based tool for creating mockups of UIs, userflows, etc.

  8. Performance Calendar » PNG that works

    Everything you need to know about PNGs on the web in one handy, well-explained page. (via Dotcode)

  9. Tantramar: More and Moore

    I like this. Buying old iPod Shuffles on eBay, filling each with music by a single artist, and using them as single musical units. Music and player in one.

  10. Hauntological Futures | booktwo.org

    The first of seven posts, which I’m looking forward to. I often find myself agonising over related things: a nostalgia for past futures at the expense of… well, whatever I might otherwise think about the future.

  11. Twitter / alex butterworth: For the next ten weeks I w …

    “For the next ten weeks I will be tweeting the events of the Commune through the voices of the participants.” Lovely idea, seems a bit hard to follow what’s actually happening, or maybe I’ve missed the point.

  12. Music.yoz.com - Because you really need to hear this track. Really.

    Yoz has started a music blog and it has nice music.

  13. EXEgist

    An attempt to create an interface for annotating a text. Baffled me entirely, but it’s early days. (via @cshirky)

  14. Use Django and jQuery to create a spreadsheet application

    That’s a more interesting guide/demo than “how to make a weblog”. (via Django Weekly)

  15. Scripto | Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription

    “A light-weight, open source, tool that will allow users to contribute transcriptions to online documentary projects.  The tool will include a versioning history and full set of editorial controls, so that project staff and [sic] manage public contributions.”

  16. The Online Photographer: Open Mike: Jazz Starter Kit

    One jazz-lover’s guide to getting into jazz, what things to listen to. (I like guides to a field by people who know something, even if it’s impossible to be objective about it.)

  17. Search Results mississippi records tape - Root Blog

    Various mix tapes by a Portland, Oregon record store, digitised and put online. (via Time & Materials)

  18. Subtraction.com: An Archive for Interaction Design

    Archiving digital design is difficult, like trying to archive a conversation.

  19. On archiving digital products - this is sippey.com

    Archiving things like websites is more than saving copies of pages. Digital things are like architecture, reliant on context, interaction, change. (via Booktwo)

  20. 1UP: The importance of platforms, and how we’re extending ours | Foursquare Blog

    Ooh, nice: Foursquare’s Venue Project, to tie together IDs for different places (businesses, buildings, etc) on different sites and services. (via Booktwo)

  21. Encrypting Passwords with PHP for Storage Using the RSA PBKDF2 Standard

    This was also useful. Yes, it’s a thrilling day!

  22. PHP Encryption / Decryption Using the MCrypt Library (libmcrypt)

    This was super useful.

  23. The Digital Beyond | Insight about your digital death and afterlife

    Stuff and things about what happens to your digital stuff after you die. Doing a panel at SXSW right *now*. (via @aleksk)

  24. 5.1 Reference Manual :: 4.5.1.6 mysql Tips | MySQL - Using the —safe-updates Option

    Stops you doing updates and deletes on the entire database, generally by accident. —i-am-a-dummy is a synonym. (via blech)

  25. Welcome to the Real Time Club

    “Founded in 1967, the Real Time Club is believed to be the world’s oldest IT dining Club.” (via Haddock)

  26. PHP mcrypt in Snow Leopard with Homebrew

    I’m increasingly finding descriptions of how to do this kind of vaguely impenetrable techy thing which Just Work. Lovely.

  27. d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents

    Looks like a very flexible javascript thing for turning data into different kinds of diagram_ chart_ map_ etc. (via Waxy)

  28. John C.H. Grabill’s Photos of Western Frontier Life | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

    Lots of photos of late 19th century America, centered on the town of Deadwood. Some lovely images there. (via The Online Photographer)

  29. Street Traffic Accidents (Metropolis). (Hansard, 18 May 1914)

    “…can [the Home Secretary] see his way so to alter or relax the police regulations as to enable the more expeditious slaughter of animals meeting with serious accidents in the streets?”

  30. ASCII by Jason Scott / Archive Team Yahoo Video Final Push (and a rousing speech)

    I sent Archive Team money to pay for 1TB of storage, so they can store more of Yahoo Video, which is being deleted by Yahoo! Every little helps, so maybe send a little? (via Waxy)