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  1. Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley’s Blog

    A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)

  2. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

    Lets you create tag clouds that are much more lovely than the usual. (via Blackbelt Jones)

  3. Phpmyfamily::home

    Allows people to collaborate on researching their family’s genealogy. Nice idea, but looks pretty ugly and confusing.

  4. Bottle Tracker - Baby Tracker Software by Trixie Tracker

    Anything this obsessive makes me feel much more relaxed about my levels of personal quantification. (via Kevin Kelly)

  5. 285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps

    Idea for public art project: Brass markings on roads, pavements, buildings, etc. that mark the path of the rivers that are now hidden. (via Ted Mills)

  6. Amazon.com: “Revolutions and State Collapse”

    I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn’t save it at the time.

  7. Goings On: Online Only: The New Yorker

    Syndey Pollack looked for “the ache” in stories. “It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early.” Yes, that’s it exactly. (via Daring Fireball)

  8. Displacements – today and tomorrow

    Very nice video / installation art thing, worth a look. (via Kottke)

  9. Daytrotter | A Constant Reminder That People Burn And So Does Time | The Mountain Goats

    MP3s of four newish songs recorded specially for this site by the Mountain Goats. Lovely lovely.

  10. Drivers of Change

    A thing from Arup that would be directly up the street of me eight years ago. And maybe sometime in the future. (via City of Sound)

  11. MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes

    Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)

  12. 24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts

    A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)

  13. Click opera - Fixated on the fixie

    Momus on fixed gear bikes. (via blackbeltjones)

  14. Ultimate Buds :: Products :: UB7 Ultimate Buds Apple / Etymotic ER6i

    Don’t like the white. (via Ben Hammersley)

  15. Derek Powazek - The Quest for Perfect iPhone Earbuds

    Some recommendations.

  16. Movable Type Knowledge Base: List Recent Comments

    Displaying the most recently-commented-on Entries.

  17. Movable Tweak: Migrating CustomFields to Movable Type Professional 4.1

    Phew, glad there’s a way to do this.

  18. Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

    For OmniGraffle among others. (via Infovore)

  19. WhatTheFont : MyFonts

    Upload a scanned piece of text and it’ll tell you what font it is. (via Daring Fireball)

  20. Corporation of London - Development & planning - Planning applications

    Proposal to create a brand new flat at the bottom of one of the Barbican towers, in a “void space”. See the PLANNING REPORT for some pics.

  21. Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)

    Amazing infographic-like diagrams all based on Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’. Obsessively beautiful. (via Orlando’s Ffffound)

  22. YouTube - Hitler Plans Burning Man

    Laughing at Hitler feels so wrong, but that’s what I did. (via Boing Boing)

  23. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online’s Bill Taylor

    Much linked-to article about an online shoe-selling firm and how it’s a great place to work. They offer new recruits $1000 to quit, in order to only keep people who are keen. (via Kottke)

  24. YouTube - 21 Accents

    An actress says more or less the same sentence in 21 different accents. Very good. I’d love to be able to do, well, any accent other than my own. (via Boing Boing)

  25. Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource

    Some say nostalgia is a disease but it’s still nice to see Webmonkey return. I first learned PHP and MySQL here. It has a lot to answer for.

  26. Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online

    Nice looking online invoice recording and sending app. I’m not busy enough to need it right now, but maybe one day… (via Ben Hammersley)

  27. Matthew Johnston’s slideshow on Flickr - Liberty City vs New York City

    Photos comparing bits of New York with their ‘Grand Theft Auto 4’ counterparts. Amazing and beautiful. Sometimes it’s only the quality of the photos that sets them apart. (via Blackbeltjones)

  28. Bristol - Real Time Information

    Real-time information of buses’ departure from bus stops, tracking buses fitted with GPS. Not the most beautifully implemented thing in the world but it looks like it works (eg, try postcode “BS1 5TR”). (via City of Sound)

  29. CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Disappearing World of Soho’s Independent Record Shops

    I was on Berwick St the other day, but didn’t go down far enough to see the demolition opposite Somerfield. I so hope they hang on, but then I buy MP3s over CDs whenever I can, so… (via Alan Connor)

  30. Going Solo: Stowe Boyd - From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities For Soloists. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos

    A guide to freelancing. A lot that bears no relation to my experience, but I think I’ve been lucky at making a go of it without much planning (so far). Still interesting and worth a read.