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  1. Child’s-eye view of Edwardian Ipswich - Evening Star 24

    Part one of my grandad’s memories of growing up in Ipswich in the early 1900s.

  2. Jacobian’s jellyroll at master - GitHub

    “You keep personal data in all sorts of places on the internets. Jellyroll brings them together onto your own site.” Sounds good, but haven’t tried it. (via Blech)

  3. Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing

    Sounds nice and some lovely little features like saving info about the weather, etc when it automatically checks your files in. Contextual backup.

  4. Husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.

    “Is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site?” Yes. Maybe even a WordPress plugin…?

  5. Adactio: Journal—Magnoliloss

    On backing up his Magnolia links and wondering how to back up the rest of his distributed online life. (via Blech)

  6. Tech Support, Manuals & Troubleshooting for Consumers

    Nice idea. Like user-filled tech support forums but for everything, from white goods, cars, etc on. Although I did see a comment about them not paying people they’d promised to… (via Noisy Decent Graphics)

  7. All Things Seen and Unseen » Similar Posts

    WordPress plugin for doing “more posts like this” stuff. Sounds well done. (via Infovore)

  8. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

    Some maths, which I’m assuming is good. (via Infovore)

  9. The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson - Architecture Programme - Royal Academy of Arts

    Series of six discussions about twentieth century architects who have done important stuff in London. On Mondays, first was last night, no online booking *rolls eyes*.

  10. Mapping the Brainysphere: 29 blogs switched-on gamers should read « Subject Navigator

    I was looking for one or two good games blogs to follow and found too many. Choices choices.

  11. Discount thoughts: critical thinking compilation

    Collections of intelligent writing about video games. Only two so far, but promising.

  12. When can I use…

    “Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies.” A lot of waiting involved. (via Dotcode)

  13. Django Settings Tip - Setting Relative Paths | Morethanseven

    (via Simon Willison)

  14. Watermarks Project

    Lovely idea to make it obvious how disastrous rising sea levels could be. All the photos are mock-ups though unfortunately. (via Noisy Decent Graphics)

  15. Font Matrix

    Nice grid of what fonts are available in different OSes with different installs of software.

  16. Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks

    Sensible examples of lists of fonts to use in CSS.

  17. The Online Photographer: The Trough of No Value

    It’s lovely when you find a phrase to name a thing you’ve always known but never been able to reduce to a handful of words. (via Kottke)

  18. Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes

    Interesting presentation on which fonts are available to use on the web, and how best to specify combinations of them. (via Blech)

  19. Recreating the button | stopdesign

    Doug Bowman on how buttons were developed on Google apps. Good HTML/CSS cleverness. (via Simon Willison)

  20. YouTube - Band of Brothers (BOB) gets Pwned in Alliance Trounament 4

    I’d never seen commentary on a game before. I have no idea what’s going on, but it’s still somehow thrilling. (via Oblinks)

  21. Breaking: Goonfleet stomps Band of Brothers in biggest EVE takedown ever

    “Can you smell that? That sort of eau du ozone, rubber, and dust? That smell is the goddamn future, friends. We are, all of us, finally living in the world our grandfathers wrote pulp novels about.”

  22. Support OpenStreetMap Donate Now

    OpenStreetMap are trying to raise £10,000 to buy a new API database server for their fantastic work. (via Simon Willison)

  23. iCraig » Geotagger

    A Mac app for using Google Earth to add GPS coordinates to photos’ EXIF data. A shame iPhoto doesn’t update its cached data though. (via Lee)

  24. Write to Reply

    Aims to provide a way to comment on individual paragraphs of public reports (starting with ‘Digital Britain’). Great stuff (not sure about the way comments are integrated (or not) though).

  25. Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com

    Another week another case of people losing data they’ve entrusted to a hosted service. (via Lee)

  26. Snarkmarket: A Snarkmarket Book Project: The New Liberal Arts

    Writing a book about “the new liberal arts” and asking “what are they?” Also, the most pointless use of video ever. (via Kottke)

  27. ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

    Simple way of generating twelve complementary colours.

  28. Color Combinations | Color Schemes | Color Palettes

    The ‘Combo Tester’ provides a way of viewing up to eight colours together, and automatically creating complementary ranges of up to eight colours.

  29. 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Wordpress Themes | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

    Mostly for “Simple and Clean Wordpress Themes”.

  30. 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

    Scroll to “2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes”