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  1. Human Cloning in Japan

    Wow. Scroll down… and down… until you get to the dolls with the scary, amazing, horrible, wonderful heads based on scans of real people. Imagine having a collection of one of these for every year of your life… (via @wonderlandblog)

  2. How Andy Carvin debunked the “Gay Girl in Damascus” hoax

    Some things to watch out for here if you were ever going to try and create a fake person online. (via Waxy)

  3. Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack’s Anonymous Creator

    Telehack sounds amazing. I always wanted to play a Spectrum game (I forget the name) that simulated hacking, never mind something this huge.

  4. On The Network

    Derek Powazek chronicling dumbly critical mentions of the internet in the media. If I still listened to the Today programme I bet I’d come up with some. (via Waxy)

  5. Carlhuda/janus - GitHub

    A bunch of nice vim customisations and plugins intended to be used with MacVIM. (Thanks Tom T.)

  6. Infovore » Where’s @towerbridge?

    Aside from anything else: Twitter appear to have handed one person’s account over to someone else, and all the original tweets have been deleted. How safe does your account feel now?

  7. Hobbs of Barbican

    I never knew: Between 1930 and WWII the firm Hobbs of Barbican made bikes in the Barbican area of London, later moving to Dagenham.

  8. ‘The Headbadge’: Raleigh Catalog Archive Project

    Ah, even more old Raleigh bike catalogues, from 1938 to 1987. Getting closer. (Domain updated from www.jaysmarine.com, 2012-05-01.)

  9. Bike Pictures on bulgier.net

    Mainly for the “Bike Catalogs” section, full of old brochures which were handy for trying to identify poorly-described old bikes on eBay. For example.

  10. Chasing a Sound in your Head (blog.thoughtwax.com)

    I love ‘Red Dead Redemption’ but this is exactly right. If I ever show a video game to a non-gamer there are always oddities you, even now, have to explain away with “that’s just how things are in games”. (via @cityofsound)

  11. Liddy Scheffknecht | iGNANT

    Photos of buildings covered in scaffolding with everything except the scaffolding removed. (Thanks James.)

  12. Beauty Through Bamboo on Vimeo

    Nice video watching John Cho Moore hand-making one of his good-looking bags, using bamboo as a frame. (via Lineage of Influence)

  13. Scaffoldage

    A great Tumblr blog of photos of very impressive scaffolding. Better than that sounds. (Thanks @blech)

  14. Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions

    Oh, nice. There’s something magical about seeing live data of vehicles around the world, like the plane maps we saw during the ash cloud last year. Especially lovely having ships’ names displayed. (via Preoccupations)

  15. AC Grayling’s private university is odious | Terry Eagleton | Comment is free | The Guardian

    My thoughts: Expensive private universities were inevitable once all universities were able to charge a lot. But inevitability doesn’t make it better, and there’s no way to pretend this is anything but bad for inequality.

  16. Playlist for Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture - April 18, 2011

    Pretty much just listening to this one on repeat at the moment.

  17. The First Year of Frames

    I completely forgot sites used to offer the choice of “Frames or No Frames”.

  18. Olduse

    Brilliant. A 30-year delayed “live” archive of Usenet. I must remember to come back when it reaches 1995. (via Tom Taylor)

  19. Html2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt)

    Turns a web page into Markdown-formatted ASCII. (via Preoccupations)

  20. Poor Yorick Entertainment

    Posters, graphics etc created for all the movies, brands, etc in ‘Infinite Jest’. Lovely. I assume it’ll be a book at some point… (via Kottke)

  21. Guest DJ Brian Eno : NPR

    Eno on ‘All Songs Considered’ discussing some music. I must make time to listen. (via Ted Mills)

  22. Britain’s Got Talent and the Ronan Parke Co… - justpaste.it

    I expect this has been everywhere, but it’s a good, if depressing read.

  23. LRB · Howard Hotson · Short Cuts

    The new BPP University in the UK is owned by the Apollo Group, whose biggest US institution, the University of Phoenix, sounds very dodgy.

  24. Black Diamond Introduces New Tactical Computer System « Soldier Systems

    This, with an iPad on the chest, in tweed (because everyone seems to like that retro and “authentic” country look).

  25. John Smedley factory tour « Lineage of influence

    Photos from a tour round the factory of John Smedley, who make knitwear. (via @sehkelly)

  26. Kindle typography

    Going to some lengths to make Kindle typography better using JavaScript and CSS.

  27. Luna’s Café: Typography is about reading – and so are ebooks

    There are a few reasons I’ve never bought a Kindle book, and this thoughtlessness on the part of publishers and Amazon is one. (via Daring Fireball)

  28. S.E.H Kelly — Clothes made in England and the British Isles

    Men’s clothes, made entirely from UK materials (including the buttons), based in Hackney, London. Although they all look too short for me.

  29. Grain & Gram — The New Gentlemans Journal / The Exchange / A Conversation With Roy Slaper

    An interview with a man who started hand-making jeans, with no experience, and now does it full time. (via @hiutdenim)

  30. The Ancient Tree Hunt (PDF)

    A cycling route to some of London’s oldest trees.