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  1. Indiepop Radio

    Fantastic. “Indie songs with proper tunes and proper lyrics: Indiepop, Sarah Records, Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, Twee…” Streaming radio and a podcast.

  2. Journal.nonesuch.com: Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of “The Wire”

    Sounds good… and only six weeks to go until the fifth season begins.

  3. Ben Goldacre: Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues | Comment is free | The Guardian

    Can we all club together and buy Ben Goldacre an award for services to common sense or something? He’s been on fire this year.

  4. Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register

    ‘Power of Nightmares’ etc creator on the BBC and other media being scared, the faults of blogs, user-generated content. “It’s a time of great technical invention but it’s a time of [artistic] stagnation.”

  5. A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design

    Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)

  6. Graphpaper.com - What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)

    A list of skills learned in art school that aren’t hands-on crafting skills. These are the best things about such places I think (via Purse Lip Square Jaw via Rodcorp)

  7. Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka - Celebrating ORG’s Second Birthday

    The Open Rights Group is doing fantastic things for the UK online world. I joined when they started and if you join now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust will match your contribution. Go!

  8. How to run Greasemonkey scripts in Safari - Simplehelp

    Handy, works with Password Composer. Keep trying to switch to Safari but end up going back to Firefox for all the extras.

  9. Under the Radar - Miki Berenyi

    Nice down-to-earth interview with the Lush lead singer. Reading about ex-pop stars having normal lives is odd. (via Blackbeltjones)

  10. Soundtrack To War

    Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.

  11. Dashing Tweeds » Tailored Outfits - Cycle Suit

    Splendid cycling tweed outfits with reflective thread and Teflon coating. Splendid. (via Haddock)

  12. Marseille Figs

    Much much more on the band.

  13. Room Thirteen - Where Music Rocks - Marseille Figs - The Dirty Canon

    Good review for Dorian and co’s new album, which is very fine.

  14. Interview: Phil Gyford | Wordsy

    A half-hour interview with me about Pepys’ Diary, in mp3.

  15. The RoundCube Webmail Project

    Nice looking, free, open source web-based IMAP email client.

  16. NUJ Freelance Fees Guide: Photography - Books - rates

    Handy guide to examples of rates for use of photography. (via Haddock)

  17. YouTube - What’s He Building?

    Excellent Tom Waits track. I love the (spoken) lyrics and the video lives up to them. (via Haddock)

  18. Outbound Cargos - Mens Trousers

    Winner of the inaugural Phil Gyford Best New Trouser of the Year Competition. I’m very, very picky about trousers, but these are comfortable, long enough, look fine and, best of all, have superb pocketage.

  19. spEak You’re bRanes

    Amazing but depressing selection of comments left on the BBC ‘Have Your Say’ site. cf Mitchell & Webb’s “You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you reckon something.” (via Ben Hammersley)

  20. Russell davies: buffy - in our own time

    Fantastic ‘In Our Time’ style mp3 discussing ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Made me want to go and watch it all over again.

  21. Johnaugust.com » The Hollywood Standard

    Recommendation of a book about the technical aspects of writing a film script, how to lay it out, etc. With a few caveats.

  22. Best Literature Blog - The 2007 Weblog Awards

    Please vote for Pepys’ Diary, currently in second place. We need your vote! Vote early and often (yes you can vote once every 24 hours). Thanks!

  23. Amazon.co.uk: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success: Books: Marci Alboher

    Also sounds cringeworthy (like most self-help books) but possibly ideal. (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)

  24. Amazon.co.uk: What Do I Do When I Want to Do Everything?: A Revolutionary Programme for Doing Everything That You Love: Books: Barbara Sher

    The idea of self-help books makes me cringe, but this does sound intriguing… (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)

  25. PsyBlog: Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted

    The group who chose their sandwiches for the week in advance “are significantly less happy with their choices than the group who chose their sandwiches on the day.” (via Haddock)

  26. ScienceDirect - Journal of Vocational Behavior : The role of chance events in career decision making

    “Chance events were reported as influencing the career decisions of 69.1% of the sample.” (via Haddock)

  27. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert | Excerpt

    “Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had presumed.” “Happiness is not really what or where we thought it was.” (via Haddock)

  28. Leopard finally supporting ssh-agent at login

    To remember when I upgrade. (via Blech)

  29. Demonstration at St Pancras International, 14 - 11- 2007 — Camden Cycling Campaign

    One of the downsides of the new station: stupid little bike racks (obviously designed years ago by someone who never used a bike) a long way from anywhere useful.

  30. A MySQL Abstraction Class For PHP

    Sounds lovely, and probably better than the one of my own I’ve been using in various places for years. (via Infovore)