Links
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A-Z Index of Euromyths 1992 to 2016 (European Commission in the UK)
Hundreds of myths about EU rules. (via @dracos)
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That Summer Vacation Collar
On casual, summery, shirt collars.
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Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit - Political Economy Research Centre
Another good read on understandable reasons why people have voted for Out. (via @tomskitomski)
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‘If you’ve got money, you vote in … if you haven’t got money, you vote out’ | Politics | The Guardian
A good read for getting beyond “Out voters are all racists!” (via @tomskitomski)
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The Americans: Slate TV Club Insider by Slate Magazine on iTunes
Episode-by-episode from season three, for when we get there. (via Beeker)
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About 1999.io
New blogging service from Dave Winer. I know, but I made things with Userland Frontier back in the day so I have a soft spot for his stuff sometimes. (via @spongefile)
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The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup | WIRED
Kevin Kelly’s overview of Mixed and Virtual Reality systems is a good read if you haven’t been paying enough attention, like me.
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Population Today, volume 30, number 8 (PDF)
For the article “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” An estimated 106 billion. (via Wait But Why)
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Ballardian » ‘Working for the building’: An Interview with Ben Wheatley
A good discussion of ‘High-Rise’.
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I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire — Medium
I just enjoyed reading this. (via @GreatDismal)
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Nigel’s Against the World (London Review of Books)
I’ve mostly been ignoring EU referendum stuff but this is quite good on the things we don’t really know about what happens if we leave.
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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny — NYMag
There are loads of worried articles about Trump but this is a nice long overview of worries. (via @spongefile)
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In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial | Motherboard
I love this collision between tech culture and a court made up of “normals”, as the author describes them. (Odd that the article doesn’t say what the trial’s about until the final sentence though.)
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BBC One - The One Show, 09/05/2016, Poets Corner: Dr John Cooper Clarke
On his love of Frinton-on-Sea. I had no idea.
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Three Years in San Francisco » Mike Industries
Some good thoughts on building teams, management, product managers, diversity, etc.
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Salary benchmarking for London - Cogs Agency Cogs Agency
2015/16. Interesting, although I take these with a pinch of salt. And all the tables are an image, so they obviously want to keep this data hidden from some people.
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Gentrification’s Price : S.F. Moves: Yuppies In, the Poor Out - latimes
On San Francisco’s gentrification. Article from 1985.
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Test A Reusable Django Application For Support Of Multiple Django Releases With Tox And Travisci | Joe Bergantine
A clear description of how to do something that pretty much worked. Always a pleasure.
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Social Autopsy founder Candace Owens channels GamerGate in bizarre attack on Zoe Quinn :: We Hunted The Mammoth
This gets more amazing the further you read. Things just get messier and messier. The ‘New York’ article linked to near the end is also good, and similar.
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Don’t Trust Your CMS — Following: How We Live Online
On CMSs stripping formatting and how troublesome that can be. My first thought is “Why is this CMS so awful that the journalists aren’t writing and editing their own drafts in it?” (via @simonw)
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Thrones of Blood - The New Yorker
Clive James on ‘Game of Thrones’. Really good, so many great lines.
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Framework7 - Full Featured Mobile HTML Framework For Building iOS & Android Apps
Could be useful. (via @paulpod)
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[messaging] Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto
Fascinating summary, from 2014, of the problems with blocking email spam and how end-to-end encryption affects that.
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Post-Internet Sound
Holly Herndon & Jennifer Walshe: “we are attempting to put together an archive of sound and music works dealing with the internet since its inception” (via @cityofsound)
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How to use Land Registry data to explore land ownership near you | Anna’s blog
Nice clear description of two ways to view basic Land Registry data about an area. A shame it even takes this much work. And the Ordnance Survey stuff is so locked down. And Land Registry data lookups cost £3.
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Findable.TV - Watch movies and TV series online
See which services have the movies/TV you want to watch.
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chris dorley-brown
Some lovely photos of mostly east London. Good colours and more. (via The Online Photographer)
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San Andreas State: Animal Cam
I watched the recording of this for about half an hour today. (via Waxy)
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Boiling React Down to a Few Lines in jQuery - Hackflow
An explanation of React that my fuzzy head can’t cope with right now. So, for later. (via @simonw)
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inkle/ink: inkle’s open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
I wonder if it makes more sense than Twine, which seemed bonkers when I tried to make sense of it last year. It looks a bit more… methodical? modern? robust?