Links
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U B U W E B - Film & Video: John Berger - Ways of Seeing (1972)
Ooh, all four episodes for download. I’ve never seen the TV version.
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Core77 - The True Story of Automoblox
From 2005, about the struggles to get a toy car product line manufactured in China. A good read. (via Kottke, a while ago)
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London futures | images that bring ideas to life and frame the climate change debate in a way that everyone can understand
Images of a flooded future London. (via Beyond the Beyond)
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Human landscapes in SW Florida - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Every single aerial photo is stunning, go look. Photos of housing developments, many undeveloped. I wouldn’t want to live in any of them. (via Kottke)
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Git ready » learn git one commit at a time
Very handy collection of git tips. Enough information to make sense, not too much to confuse.
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Thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
Lovely kind of cross-section of psycho-geographic-neighbourhoods or something. I’d love to see lots more of these. (via Tom Taylor)
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Hacker News | I’m done building Facebook apps for clients
More people discussing the frustrations of developing for Facebook.
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I’m done building Facebook apps for clients | Ryan Waggoner
Yes, this. I’ve only done Facebook Connect stuff, not built actual FB apps, but, it’s unpleasant and frustrating. Stick to the Web.
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Formulatepro - Project Hosting on Google Code
Need to add an image to a PDF, which Preview doesn’t do, and you don’t have Adobe Acrobat? This does the job nicely, for free.
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America, My New-Found-Land by Tony Judt | The New York Review of Books
I enjoyed this piece on how alluring America is to a European.
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Bkkeepr | Track your reading and bookmark on the go
I either didn’t know James Bridle had done this or I’d forgotten. Bad of me either way. It’s very nice. A bit like LibraryThing, but you add/track/bookmark your reading via Twitter.
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Let Charles be Charles | Planetizen
In the comments, Dan Hill versus New Urbanists. Interesting. (Comments are in an odd order and the reordering widget doesn’t seem to work.)
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My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain
I’ve seen this ecstatic report by a blind person about their new iPhone linked to from a few places. Forget your iPhone-fatigue and skip to the last few paragraphs where he describes using an app (Color ID) which speaks the colours the device’s camera “sees”. Beautiful.
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Free Andrew Loomis Art Intstruction Downloads « Escape From Illustration Island
Some lovely old copyright-free books on figure drawing as PDFs. (via Ministry of Type)
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Musopen raises $40,000 to set classical music “free”
Love this - raising money via Kickstarter to hire orchestras to record copyright-free versions of classical music. (via Waxy)
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A Place to Remember Loved Ones | 1000Memories
Interesting - create a site about someone who’s died. But… feels a bit clunky and like “make a database about someone you love”.
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Snoopy | View-source bookmarklet for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices
Very handy. Also rather nice on desktop browsers too. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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YouTube - Being a Dickhead’s Cool
It’s like Nathan Barley - The Video, ten years on. Very good.
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BLDGBLOG: Predisposed
More on that “how to tell future generations about dangerous things” problem. Fascinating stuff.
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Dcramer’s django-sentry at master - GitHub
Looks nice, haven’t used it. “Sentry provides you with a generic interface to view and interact with your [Django] error logs.”
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A unified theory of New York biking | Analysis & Opinion |
Yes, yes, yes. The same for London too. Cyclist vs car and cyclist vs pedestrian conflicts arise because cyclists act more like pedestrians (ignoring rules) than cars (which by and large obey rules). (via Kottke)
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Magazero |
A new online store for fairly obscure/”independent” magazines started by Ivan Pope. He plans to do Stack-style subscriptions soon. (via Warren Ellis)
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…and the ‘blog’ you rode in on
Found this lurking on my hard drive from, perhaps, the “middle-early ages” of blogging.
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NFLUK.com - News List - Football’s coming home to Channel 4
Channel 4 gets Sunday Night Football. I’m very glad there’s some free-to-air NFL again, but am amazed deals like this are only finalised a week before the season starts. I hope the presenters are as good as Five’s were.
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Put up or shut up - Roger Ebert’s Journal
24 per cent of Republicans believe Obama is the Antichrist. The Antichrist. Hard to know where to start, but I guess Ebert’s thoughts are a first step. Today, I am liking Britain.
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Philgyford’s mytweets at master - GitHub
I updated Simon Willison’s “Script for saving a JSON archive of your tweets”, which Blech and others have added to since, to use OAuth.
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The Online Photographer: Mike’s Darkroom
I’ve been really enjoying these posts about constructing a darkroom. Not because I want one, but because reading about the layout decisions made by someone with lots of experience is fascinating. There’s so much a novice would miss.
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Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
Handy sometime I expect. Standardised icons for services, in four sizes.
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YouTube - Look at Life - Top People, 1960
Men in flat caps without harnesses working high above the City of London (Golden Lane Estate, London Wall, etc). Lots more ‘Look at Life’ on the right, too.