Links
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The difference between the UK, Great Britain, and England [video] - Holy Kaw!
A very good description of the differences, which was an education to me. I can never remember all of this stuff. (via @tomcoates)
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When Should I Visit Science Museum?
What a lovely idea - which museums are most or least likely to be busy today?
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Rawktumblr
“The hunt for the next big thing has become a daily harvest of hundreds of next embarrassingly small things.” A bit more musing about music journalism/blogging today. (via Haddock)
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Sean In Tumblr
“For journalists, bloggers and music fans in general, there is no real way to justify listening to one thing over another…” How a music website, never mind your average punter, struggles to cope with the amount of music around today. (via Haddock)
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“Satire was mostly dead in 2008 and its corpse is still cold today. What do people want in the future? I guess they want tweets.”
Maura Johnston on focus grouping news, Twitter vs blogging, consumers vs producers of media, and loads more. (via Haddock)
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Barbican - Images | Jamie Smith
Some nice photos of the Barbican by a student who’s doing a project on it. They’d be even nicer if they didn’t have a copyright statement stamped across their middles though.
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A (Complete) Guide to Running Django on Joyent Shared Accelerators using Virtualenv, pip, git, and NginX | ecarmi.org
Brilliant. I’ve been waiting a long, long time for instructions like this.
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Grenson | Men’s Shoes, Men’s Brogues, Mens Boots, Handmade Shoes, British Shoes
Some nice shoes, the name of which I’ll forget. (via Antimega)
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LRB · Iain Sinclair · The Raging Peloton
He has a nice turn of phrase but Iain Sinclair is a gloomy, misanthropic reactionary who thinks the only people who can ride bikes authentically are the 1950s working class and eccentric poets. One wonders why he still lives in London.
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Little Big Details
Examples of nice little UI touches. Some a bit obvious but others that are lovely. (via @paulpod)
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Trustworthy Digital Repository - Chronicle of Life
Really interesting description of an organisation to keep peoples’ data safe forever. This organisational stuff must be at least half the battle, aside from technical things. Rest of site seems a bit… clunky though. (via Haddock)
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Implementing a Fixed Position iOS Web Application - Google Mobile Developer Products - Google Code
Brilliant: how to (a) make page elements fixed on iOS Safari (which doesn’t acknowledge position:fixed, grrrr) and (b) do scrolling with momentum. Gmail in iOS Safari is very swish.
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In English « Haluan nähdä muutakin
1458 people donated money to keep 21 bus and tram stops in Helsinki free of advertising for a week. A shame the posters still had big text on though. (via @antimega)
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Vice Style » News » Riot Girls, Literally
Wondering if VICE’s next fashion shoot will be in a war zone. Or maybe, yeah, like in Africa, you know, like with all the famines and that? Amazing light! (via @benhammersley)
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iPad View Source Bookmarklet - Ravelrumba
What it says. Could be handy. (via Daring Fireball)
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Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It Later Blog
Interesting graphs of when ReadItLater users read stuff online, whether on desktop, iPhone or iPad. I definitely read less on my computer now I have an iPad. (via Kottke)
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Philgyford | Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com
Here are my Spotify playlists, in case anything takes your fancy. i’ll update it when I make new ones worth sharing.
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Exquisite Tweets from @candicecbailey…
Whoops! One careless word and suddenly people think there’s a shooting in Oxford Circus. @candicecbailey appears to have deleted her original tweet now, although it’s not really her fault. (via @abscond)
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Irvinebrown » Music for Shuffle
I’m listening to this now. It’s lovely. Little snippets of music that can be played in any order. Clever Matt.
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Pepys’ Shows: Samuel Pepys’ Theatre Reviews
The remarkable Matthew Somerville and Clare Lovell made a lovely little thing at Culture Hack Day: a random review of a play as seen by Samuel Pepys, also linking to Theatricalia.
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Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
For future arguing reference. But also, I don’t understand why monospaced typewriter folk wanted two spaces either; I still type emails monospaced, and two spaces looks ugly. (via Preoccupations)
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Avatron Software: Air Display
Six quid for this, but I had to give it a go (two screens aren’t enough!). Feels like magic: a wireless screen! But updating (eg, dragging windows) is pretty jerky and it can use 10-25% of my MacBook’s CPU when I’m dragging stuff on it, 15% if something is updating frequently (like Activity Monitor). Around 2% when idle. But could be very handy for some things.
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Requiem for a Dream
Still one of my favourite websites promoting a film. Tries to convert the feeling of the film into something more about the web (of ten years ago) (in Flash). Also, it’s great to see that it’s still online.
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YouTube - “Fuck you” Sign language performance
You know the song, and it’s just a girl in a classroom doing sign language, how good can it be… Watch it! It’s my favourite thing I’ve seen in a while and makes me all smiley. Brilliant!
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In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek
Wonderful essay about science fiction movie corridors, with lots of pictures. The internet gives generously. (via @moleitau)
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Movieos - London again
Tom Insam, ex of Dopplr, is back in London and looking for a job. You should try to hire him, because he is good.
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trendwatching.com: Join our team
TrendWatching have two full-time jobs going in London. A decade ago I expect I would have been super keen on these.
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The Online Photographer: OT: The Worst Remuddling Job in the History of the Universe
Amazing that someone could prefer the second over the first, but a reminder of how very different people are to what seems “normal” to me/you/whoever. But even so. (Also, click through “the ‘Ouch’ post”.)
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Oops on Vimeo
Found footage of video cameras being dropped. So much more absorbing than you’d imagine. Beautifully done. (via Waxy)
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Matt Webb’s Interconnected (it’s all confused and beautiful.)
Like very year, I meant to start blogging more frequently. Webb’s actually doing it. I just caught up on his January over lunch and feel like I’ve eaten too well.