Links
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What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging « Design By Gravity
This kind of stuff scares me, but this is a technique that’s supposed to work.
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Facebook | SAVE THE FOUNDRY CAMPAIGN !!! The Foundry - re-house/re-locate
You can have all the fancy urban theories you like, but I’m increasingly thinking that if you don’t own lots of expensive property, you can’t control anything.
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Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics | Yes to Less | Fast Company
I’ve noticed that most of the more recent helmet designs (eg, Patriots, Buccaneers, Panthers, Jaguars, Ravens) are a bit rubbish. (via Daring Fireball)
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BBC News | World | Audio slideshow: Night witches
About Russia’s World War II female fighter pilots, what I was in a play about three years ago.
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The Online Photographer: Panasonic GF1 vs. Olympus E-P1, Part I
Solely for this quote: “These two [bundled] applications just can’t possibly be as lame and useless as they appear to be … They can’t be—right? Because if faced with a choice of working day in, day out in one of these environments or picking up trash by the side of the freeway with a pointy stick guarded by a fat man with a shotgun and a big wad of tobacco in his cheek, I would need time to decide. They both seem like they’d be torture, but least in a chain gang I’d be outdoors.”
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Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose - 8 November 2009
“Dad, you make it sound like social media is ruining my life! It’s NOT!”
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Vintage Posters — SSPL Prints
Hundreds of old rail posters etc reprinted for the purchasing of. Very tempting.
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Flogr - Project Hosting on Google Code
Looks like a nice way to make a portfolio site from your photos stored on Flickr. Example: http://thecarruthfamily.com/michael/photos/ (via Infovore)
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BLDGBLOG: One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik
On planning nuclear waste disposal, designed to be stable and safe for one million years. Longest-term futures work ever?
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Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]
The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)
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Papercraft Self Portrait - Art Portfolio for Eric Testroete
This looks wonderful.
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Illicit filesharing - p2p - government evidence to the culture committee | Tom Watson MP
Good questioning from Tom Watson. I’m continually gob-smacked by the craven corporate backwardness of the government. I wish there was a Labour party.
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Facebook Developers | Platform Live Status
Current status of the Facebook platform.
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K-punk: London litened
A nice description from 2008 of a London where everyone is reading those bloody free newspapers. (via City of Sound)
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Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps
Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
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Misfits - E4.com
Click ‘Play’ to see what I’ve been making with Six To Start for the past few weeks.
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In which Phil uses his loaf for once « West End Whingers
(A different Phil.) The National Theatre made out of bread.
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Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
For IE6 or IE7. (via Haddock)
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My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage
More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)
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Playdar - Music Content Resolver
The idea is to play any song that’s available on your computer or anywhere online. Requires compiling. Oh well.
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Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition
Tool for “diagnosing and preventing AJAX performance issues”. Annoyingly on Windows, for Internet Explorer, but free and could be useful. (via Yoz)
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Mu — Mu Connect
A JavaScript library for making interaction with Facebook Connect easier. Which I somehow didn’t find when it would have been useful to me.
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Video Monkey
“A free video encoding application exclusively for Mac … it borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool.” (via Yoz)
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Statistical analysis, data and graphing | Timetric: making data useful
Datagasm. Loads of data sets available for analysing, exporting, monitoring, fiddling with, etc. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook | Facebook
After hearing, a while back, about Yahoo denying access to relatives and then closing accounts of the deceased, this sounds very good. (via Preoccupations)
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What Startups Are Really Like
I love descriptions of start-ups and businesses like this. (via Daring Fireball)
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Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities…
Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading ‘Making of’. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)
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Theatricalia
Matthew Somerville’s new theatre database site. It already features nearly 19,000 productions, and you can add more.
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Linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
What it says. (via Yoz)