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  1. This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord. Beat That, Punk

    People who compete to get the best mileage out of cars by turning engines off, not braking, and more complicated techniques. (via Kottke)

  2. Image: Architect scales back Smithfield plans - Building

    Some good news about the redevelopment of the west end of Smithfield Market, but hard to tell exactly how good.

  3. Borough Market - Network Rail and current ‘Save the Borough Market’ petitions

    If you get a forwarded email about saving Borough Market, email the sender this and tell them to stop scaremongering. No one wants to get rid of the market (just run another railway above it).

  4. Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure

    Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.

  5. Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times

    Why do people hold irrational, superstitious, religious views, and why does it persist over generations? Is there an evolutionary benefit? (via Kottke)

  6. NOTBBC - The Comedy Forum - Lee and Herring @ Tedstock

    YouTube video of Lee & Herring performing old and new material. “Hello, I’m a Mac.” “It could have been us! Where did it all go wrong!?” Very funny.

  7. Research | Within Families - The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness

    How to ensure your child has a happier life, but interesting and valuable for adults too. A shame the references are linked to online resources. (via Blackbeltjones)

  8. Office Naps: Fresh 45 rpm curios every Monday

    Very much enjoying all these 1960s singles (the most recent post is a bit unexciting, but others are fab). And the images look great in iTunes’ Cover Flow view.

  9. The Fate of the Artist - Alan Moore’s London

    Eddie Campbell on the photographic references he used to draw ‘From Hell’. (via Rodcorp)

  10. Old Photos 1968 - a photoset on Flickr

    Anything pre-1990s, like Ted’s photos, look twice as old when displayed on the web where everything is new.

  11. Vertikal.net > English Version

    Crane industry news and discussion. (via Monocle)

  12. Apple - Pro - Tips - Become the Ultimate Menu Master

    I never knew that. If only I could get a Control key working on my non-Apple external keyboard.

  13. Russell Moccasin Co.

    I’m a sucker for American practical clothing. These custom-made shoes and boots sounded good in a glowing Monocle article.

  14. ABICI

    Simply-designed, Italian, old-fashioned looking bikes. Stupid Flash site. (via Monocle)

  15. Wonderland: LA-LON route

    The bit about Helen Mirren sends a happy tingle down my spine. Yay!

  16. The Monumental Task of Warning Future Generations

    Because I’ve looked for stuff like this in the past (having heard about it years ago, offline) and never found it.

  17. PrintFetish

    Weblog about magazines, zines, small press books, etc.

  18. GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever

    Ones I liked, or wish I’d read: Wired (‘93-‘98), Colors, Might, The Face (1980s), Ray Gun (‘92-‘96).

  19. TV Guide Community: Of Office Emmy Cheers and Acting Careers

    Interesting stuff on how to be an actor in LA. Her professor said, “If you can think of anything else you are passionate about besides acting, do that. Your life will be better for it.” (via Kottke)

  20. Yahoo! Photos - Photos de pvolant - Space Lab

    Pierre’s photos from our class in which we had to make a sculpture representing an anodyne Trashcan Sinatras tune.

  21. Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925

    Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)

  22. New National Office for Arts Council England

    Interesting site about the history of offices. (via City Of Sound)

  23. Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks

    Because I’m always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.

  24. Gwenergy: Stage Fright

    A good New Yorker article on stage fright and how it affects different people.

  25. Mixing It on Resonance FM

    The show will be continuing on Resonance FM.

  26. Mixing It

    How ‘Mixing It’ was nastily dropped from Radio 3’s schedules after years and years.

  27. eBay.co.uk: Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman phone BRAND NEW BOXED (item 180084368793 end time 17-Feb-07 10:06:03 GMT)

    The fourth time I’ve tried to sell this. Want a phone? Please bid, unless you’re another Nigerian scammer.

  28. London Theatre Blog

    Looks like good stuff. (via Encore Theatre Magazine)

  29. uk.media | Google Groups - Wired UK to Cease Publication

    Ten years ago. It feels like both yesterday and another life.

  30. The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen - Review - Fringe Festival - New York Times

    A play from 2005. Great idea.