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  1. Live blogging the general election | Media | The Guardian

    I think this was the most useful, interesting, to-the-point, immediate, high-signal, and simply best news media I’ve experienced in a long, long time. (via Simon Willison)

  2. Bristol news | Video: Inside Bristol’s biggest ever cannabis factory

    Video of inside a cannabis factory in a former NatWest bank right on Bristol’s East Street. Impressive.

  3. Twitterature: When Moby Dick Became The Fail Whale « Black Clock

    I took part in an online chat thing about Twitter literature a while back, mainly because of @samuelpepys, but I also mentioned E4’s Misfits.

  4. Soyouneedatypeface.jpg 1983×1402 pixels

    Nice, and funny, typeface-choosing flowchart. (via Haddock a while back)

  5. Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest

    Fun and interesting. (via Haddock)

  6. Zachary Voase’s Blog » Django Project Conventions, Revisited.

    Clear and (to my naive eye) sensible description of laying out a Django project’s files. I’d love to see more good examples if you know any.

  7. PPRuNe Forums - Professional Pilots Rumour Network

    I adore forums for groups of specialised professionals.

  8. The Cutter and Tailor

    A forum for professionals. You know, for when Ask Andy About Clothes and Style Forum don’t quite get down to the nitty gritty.

  9. RadarVirtuel.com with a Volcano Ashes Layer

    Similar to flightradar24.com, but includes a “Volcano Ashes Layer” on the map.

  10. Stack Exchange 2.0 - StackExchangeBlog

    The process for setting up Stack Overflow-style question and answer sites and, importantly, ensuring they’re busy enough to be useful. Interesting.

  11. Watch Air Traffic - LIVE! - We said cash, not ash!

    Amazing. And I want to drag the planes around a la ‘Flight Control’. As I look now there are no planes in Europe north of Spain. Wow.

  12. Eleven Django blog engines you should know | Monty Lounge Blog

    Fairly recent round-up.

  13. IMAP Folders

    Cal’s Perl script for seeing which of your IMAP folders are taking up most space. Handy.

  14. Subsume’s django-data-import at master - GitHub

    I’m not pondering re-writing my entire Movable Type and PHP site in Django, no, not at all, that would be foolish. But if I was, this would be useful.

  15. Contract Templates, Sample Contracts, Legal Contracts Business : Contract Store

    Might be handy sometime. Off-the-shelf contracts for many things.

  16. Copyright is hard on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    This is fab. I’m looking forward to more of this kind of thing. Maybe some MPs will be a little careless too…

  17. Montylounge’s django-mingus at master - GitHub

    Of all the Django weblog apps, I *think* this is supposed to be one of the best.

  18. Pinax

    I don’t know enough to know if this is good, but it sounds interesting - lots of basic tools to jump-start building your Django site.

  19. CandlePowerForums - Powered by vBulletin

    Wonderfully obsessive forum devoted to torches.

  20. Mr Brown Goes to the Palace « London Review Blog

    John Lanchester’s started posting daily about the general election (if you click his name, that page also has an RSS feed just for him).

  21. Frieze Magazine | Archive | Degree Zero

    I’m fascinated by art Foundation-type courses and Roy Ascott’s ‘Groundcourse’ from the 1960s, which Eno did, sounds intriguing. (via Preoccupations)

  22. Cdto - Project Hosting on Google Code

    “Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd’d to the front most finder window.” Lovely. (via Infovore)

  23. VaultPress

    Handy cloud-based backup for WordPress sites. Although I’d still want to keep your my own backup. I still don’t trust the cloud. (via Daring Fireball)

  24. Vote for Policies - Vote for policies, not personalities!

    I should be mostly voting Green apparently, which doesn’t hugely surprise me.

  25. LRB · John Lanchester · The Great British Economy Disaster

    Another must-read. “This is a direct transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to the banks, and the only difference between it and an actual, physical licence to print money is that the banks don’t have a piece of paper with the words ‘Official Licence to Print Money’ written across the top.”

  26. A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things — Daily Intel

    This is terrible - these “mundane things” are all science and engineering things which could be fascinating. It’s like the cool kids pointing and laughing at geeks.

  27. Raph’s Website » GDC10: Justin Hall, Fate of a Social Games Company

    Notes on Justin’s talk of his experience of GameLayers. i’m also a sucker for tales of start-ups. (via Alice)

  28. David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit | Movieline

    I’m a sucker for writing tips, whatever medium they’re intended for. (via Daring Fireball)

  29. Parliament.uk | Bills before Parliament

    I haven’t noticed this before - a surprisingly simple and clear indication of the bills. Click one to see its progress in more detail. Not perfect, but much better than I expected.

  30. I Love Ben Brown, 6985 Words about SXSW 2000

    Ben found that I’d found his ten-year-old post and re-posted it and now I’ve found that.