Links
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HS_LicensedVenueList.pdf (application/pdf Object)
City of London venues licensed for weddings.
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Venues in Islington
Wedding venues
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Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future
“The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game.” Interesting. There’s either a lot more futures stuff around at the moment, or I’m just stumbling across more of it. (via Wonderland)
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Rule Forty Two - » Welcome to the Future
Scroll some way through for evaluations of how futurists’ predictions turned out. (Although the futurists I know never called them “predictions” because we know they’re never 100% correct.) (via Boing Boing)
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Illustration Friday
A different topic every week for you to create an illustration about. Lovely idea. Why are there so few hours in the day and days in the week? I want to do everything. (via Haddock)
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Pillow Speaker With Volume Control: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk
Years ago I tried a Laurie Anderson sculpture that pretty much did just this and it was lovely. Hmm… (via Haddock)
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Futurelab - Innovation in education
“Transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice.” Interesting looking place, based in Bristol.
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Daytum
Lets you keep track of any kind of daily data you like and graph it. Brilliant. I don’t often think “I wish I’d thought of that” but… (via Kottke)
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Stefan Glerum
I’m liking this chap’s black and white illustrations so far. Dark and humorous. (via Drawn)
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Playlists and Archives for Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
New favourite podcast. Completely corking. I think it’s what characters in William Gibson novels listen to.
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Classic-Space LEGO: content / greebling: a closer look
“Greebling” is my new favourite word. (via Infovore)
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David Rumsey Collection
Oodles of old maps, vieweable at satisfyingly high resolutions. Mostly 18th/19th century, mostly North/South America but a few others too.
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Opentape
Host-your-own version of Muxtape. What happens when a centralised system is squashed by lawyers: thousands of individual versions flower around the edges. (via Infovore)
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Foresight Education Project
A new wiki about teaching foresight / futures / etc. Includes course outlines etc. Promising.
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Ukelele - Mac OS X Keyboard Layout Editor
Could be your solution if you’re trying to use a UK Windows keyboard (or something else non-Apple) with a Mac.
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Foundation for the Future
“Was established with the mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity.” Less long-term than Long Now is, but perhaps more focused?
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You’re not helping | MetaTalk
Oh, apparently I shouldn’t have posted that (to me) fascinating question because it’s too hypothetical. Shame. Seems more interesting than “How do I fix my Mac”, etc.
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What to do now to improve the human race in the long term? | Ask Metafilter
After reading ‘Last and First Men’ I’ve been wondering this, so I asked Metafilter.
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Scarytree Films - Here Comes Funky Kazoo
My friend Mark’s rather nice short film, in which I make a very brief and silent appearance.
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JPMorgan plans Europe HQ in Canary Wharf - International Herald Tribune
Yay, they’ve ditched plans for their massive HQ on London Wall, which would have destroyed some of the public highwalks. (Three weeks old.)
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BBC News | England | London | Smithfield market plans refused
A couple of weeks old. Phew. I’m not against redevelopment if it’s not going to be more glass offices and same-old shops.
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Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia
Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde ‘Zenit’ to ‘Advanced Beekeeping’. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics
Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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Twitter / novelsin3lines
I’m very much enjoying the 1906 French news summaries by Félix Fénéon (and not just because I wrote it up as an idea myself a while back). Lovely writing.
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Hulu - Metropolitan
Whit Stillman has put his first film, ‘Metropolitan’, up on Hulu for free viewing. But, like the rest of Hulu, it only works in the US.
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The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
I found this Freeman Dyson article interesting because it isn’t written from one of the two usual polar extremes of the global warming arguments.
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The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project
Detailed information about thousands of 78 RPM recordings. I love the Internet.
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My Collection of Recorded 78 RPM Records - Free MP3 Downloads
Currently 3,739 free MP3s ripped from one guy’s 78rpm records. That’s a lot of listening. (via Boing Boing)