Links
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City Lit’s September courses are now open for enrolment
So if you’re in London, why not learn to do something other than stare into a computer? Hurry!
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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
You never know, I might need it (it does start simply).
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Mac OS X port of Graphviz
I’ve re-done my only Graphviz graph in Omnigraffle, but this might be handy at some point.
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Microsoft TerraServer - University Forest Apartments, Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX
I didn’t realise quite how close those aerial photos got. Slightly spooky. I used to live in the right-most block.
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Goodbye, Babylon on Dust-to-Digital Distribution
Now that’s a box set.
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Steve Minutillo :: messy-78
Forcing PHP to properly handle XML in different encodings. I’m bound to need this at some point.
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Yahoo! Tracker
Graph showing changing popularity over time of particular photos at Yahoo!
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Kurt Vonnegut: Cold Turkey (at AlterNet)
Ramble about the state of America.
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Nickelback vs Nickelback
Are they by any chance related?
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Shooting and Data Gathering | Model Making | Mori Urban Institute for the Future
I want to make these.
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New AlterNet design
Lovely and clean. Uses tables, but I can’t say I blame them.
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Cityofsound: The Black Rider
Went to see this last night: excellent. A bit like ‘Shock-headed Peter’ but harder to understand.
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The relevance of
It’s, like, hard to understand. Innit.
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The War Against Silence reviews the two most recent Mountain Goats albums
Really, every time I hear the Mountain Goats I smile, I feel like crying, and paranoia sets in. It doesn’t get better.
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JavaScript Rollovers: Introduction - Doc JavaScript
But frankly, we need to go back to last century to do rollovers that will work everywhere. Sigh.
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CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death: A List Apart
Although this method of CSS rollovers works better on Mac IE.
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Fast Rollovers Without Preload (CSS)
So I don’t lose the link again.
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Open Terminal Here
Handy AppleScript that opens a Terminal session in the current Finder directory (or in any folders you drop on it).
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Bowblog: World’s oldest company?
In Japan there’s a 1,400 year old family-owned building firm.
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Kevin Kelly on the Histomap of World History
Want want want.
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phpSniff
Comprehensive PHP-based browser / platform / etc. detector.
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Broadway Market: Quality Speciality Variety
The Saturday farmers’ market is getting bigger and better every week.
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Ethnologue, Web Version
Browsable database of information about which languages are spoken in which countries, and lots of details about each language.
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Big Brother Popularity Poll
Graph showing changing popularity of housemates over time.
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Architect’s Footprints shoes from Birkenstock
Why does no one in the UK appear to sell these things? I want comfy shoes!
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MP3 blogs: defining fair use
Includes a list of links to weblogs that post MP3s for download.
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Seven tricks that Web users don’t know
A brief summary of someone’s experience of performing user tests. Excellent ammunition.