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  1. Variance

    Nice web charting/visualization thing, using a markup-based system for data, with appearance editable using CSS. Somewhere between Raphael/d3 and simple charting libraries. Costs money for commercial use. (via Tom Taylor)

  2. JavaScript Testing Recipes

    Sounds very good. Adding to the list of books I really should read.

  3. Crafting link underlines on Medium

    Not necessarily for how they decided to make nice underlines on text, but for the description of how complicated a very simple-seeming website can be. (via @jamesweiner)

  4. Free Beautiful Online Survey & Form Builder | Typeform

    Looks like a maybe nicer alternative to Survey Monkey.

  5. Managers are awesome / managers are cool when they’re part of your team

    Although I’m up for new kinds of management/company structure, the GitHub/Valve thing of having an extremely flat organisation does make me wary. Not least for the kinds of people who only blossom when given support and shelter by those whose position it is to do that.

  6. (633) Stan Hayward’s answer to Aging: What does it feel like to be old? - Quora

    This is a really lovely read. A life.

  7. Folded Up Shirt P0rn - Page 211

    I was just thinking yesterday that casual shirts (ie, worn with no tie) don’t need top buttons, and then I came across these (bottom of page). Very nice.

  8. Newsvis | The Directory of News Visualizations

    What it says. (via The Functional Art)

  9. Citybound - The Beginning

    SimCity-style game, in progress, being written in JavaScript and WebGL. Looks big, interesting, promising. (via Stellar)

  10. Absolute Positioning and Horizontal/Vertical Centering

    Using CSS alone, no JS. I’m waiting for the inevitable real-world use in which this won’t work. There must be one. Surely. There usually is. (via @jamesweiner)

  11. Maintenance

    After all that… TextDrive is finally disappearing on March 14th. I now have a lot to do in the next ten days.

  12. the californian ideology - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster

    I re-read that. It all seems true still except, perhaps, the optimistic hope that Europe could be different.

  13. Being a client

    A brief bit about the new Code for America website. So worth it for all the Clearleft and pattern library related links. All of them front-end-development gold, leading to even more.

  14. vim-airline

    “Lean & mean status/tabline for vim.” I think this is nice. I don’t know any more. Tom seemed to think it was good and I haven’t added anything to my vim setup for ages. (via @infovore)

  15. Neapolitan tweed jacket – Elia Caliendo

    Mmmm, yes, maybe that’s the thing. Only *cough* €2800. So maybe not.

  16. Oral History: Sex! Drugs! Apps! SXSW Interactive At 20 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

    Mainly for the 2000 era memories, the Weblogs Roundtable, etc. I only felt like an observer - I wasn’t blogging and didn’t know anyone really - but I’m happy I was able to be there.

  17. Graph TV

    Shows graphs of IMDB ratings for all episodes of a TV series. Nice and simple.

  18. Course: Doing Journalism with Data, First Steps, Skills and Tools

    “Five week” free online introductory data journalism course starting “early 2014”. No idea how much time it’s supposed to take, but I’ve signed up anyway. Sounds like a good intro. (via The Functional Art)

  19. How to get a ready-to-wear suit altered - Permanent Style

    I thought I’d saved this before, but obviously not. Not that I’ve ever needed it, but still, interesting.

  20. Overheard: Steven Soderbergh | Film Comment

    From 2013, on the state of cinema, the difference between “movies” and “cinema”, wondering what’s happening, how no one knows anything. A good read.

  21. Kiev’s fatigue

    Really good photos of people in Kiev. Maybe taken before the recent fighting. Just waiting, tired. (via The Online Photographer)

  22. Unlikely simultaneous historical events

    Some great stuff there. Also makes me think a site that just summarises interesting Reddit pages would be great (does it exist?) because I can’t be bothered to trawl through the source page itself for more examples.

  23. Vickers Roadster

    Rather nice British-made bike. A bit too retro though? The most modern looking thing are those mudguards, which look a bit too minimal…

  24. Minute is a pint-sized bike that’s perfectly designed for city cycling

    I’d really like an upright bike that looks like it was made in the 21st century. Not entirely sure this is it though. (via @agpublic)

  25. Politics doesn’t change anything

    Examples of the many things changed by politics in the UK, as opposed to market-led “disruption”. (via Paul Mison)

  26. 8 Sass mixins you must have in your toolbox

    Some handy things for use with SASS. (via Infovore)

  27. Tinytype

    “Find default system fonts that exist across common mobile platforms in the form of a handy compatibility table.” (via Daring Fireball)

  28. What do those squiggles on the pavement actually mean?

    How to interpret all the sprayed-on markings left by road crews on British pavements/roads.

  29. Thomas Friedman Visited Silicon Valley and Is Wrong About Everything

    Just because it’s fun to read people being angry about Thomas Friedman and Silicon Valley. It baffles me that intelligent people read him uncritically. (via @agpublic)

  30. We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

    Really good in-house memo from Stewart Butterfield to the Slack team on what they need to do to build their customer base, for a product that most people don’t know they need.