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  1. The Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS

    This long, good article everyone linked to a while back is indeed long and good.

  2. Mr. Miller Doesn’t Go to Washington - Matt Miller - POLITICO Magazine

    “A candidate’s memoir.” Being a candidate sounds like even less fun than I ever thought it would be.

  3. CABINET // Whitewood under Siege

    Another good article I’ve finally caught up with via PaperLater. All about the big world of shipping pallets.

  4. The Ambush at Sheridan Springs — Medium

    “How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons & Dragons.” Possibly more detailed than it needs to be, but a good read if you are/were into that. I was, as a teenager, entirely oblivious to every bit of this, even though I played D&D.

  5. The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | WIRED

    Got round to reading this piece about Stewart Butterfield and Slack. So nice to read about nice start-ups.

  6. Hypothes.is

    Chrome extension and bookmarklet for annotating web pages.

  7. Parser API Docs — Readability

    “The web’s most powerful content parser.” Free for non-commercial use, up to an apparently unspecified request cap.

  8. fivefilters / php-readability — Bitbucket

    “A PHP port of Arc90’s original Javascript version of Readability.”

  9. Extract Data from Any Web Page - Diffbot

    Pay-for API that lets you “Get structured content from articles, products, discussions and other familiar page types.”

  10. Website Style Guide Resources

    “Things people have written about style guides.” Many links. (via Tom Taylor)

  11. Country Of Origin Clothing- Hand Frame Knitwear Made in Scotland

    Jumpers made in Hawick, 300 per design. (via Grey Fox)

  12. Earth View from Google Maps - Chrome Web Store

    Chrome extension that shows a new satellite image of a place on Earth in every new tab. Beatiful. (via @matthewward)

  13. The problem with Angular - QuirksBlog

    Summary: it’s like a front-end framework by back-end developers; “Enterprise IT” and Java devs love it; people learn to only develop front-end stuff in an Angular way; it’s inefficient; it’s not suitable for modern, production-level front-end code.

  14. It’s never been more important for design firms to think differently — Medium

    On large buying up design firms, and the worth of independent design firms. I’d like more specific examples of the specialness of some of the example agencies are though. Other than having “a unique perspective”. (via @moleitau)

  15. notes.husk.org. voxsart (via deathbeard): The Merchandizing….

    “Ah, ‘Business Casual.’ Do you know that it comes from this eight page brochure mailed out to about 25,000 corporate human resources types in 1992?”

  16. The Truth About Your Smile | The Hairpin

    How to brush and care for your teeth. Because, like Kottke, what I know about brushing teeth is made up of very old facts. (via Kottke)

  17. Why Diners Are More Important Than Ever | Serious Eats

    Partly for the list of NY diners at the end, although the article’s good in itself. Lots of the points defining diners also sounded like British cafes (“caffs”, not cafés). (via Kottke)

  18. Sass Guidelines

    Really good, whether you agree with all the decisions or not. I now want to reorganise all my Sass files. (via Tom Taylor)

  19. Neo Classic Space

    “LEGO fans around the world have built new models, borrowing the style and colour schemes of those early [Classic Space] sets, but using newer parts and building techniques to add more detail and realism.” Some lovely stuff.

  20. The Life Behind the Lifestyle Blog — Matter — Medium

    Interview with Ben Hammersley about his personal finances. Very unusual to read his level of detail and it is fascinating. It’s difficult to talk about money but I think it would be better to be more open. Tricky though.

  21. Video: Kristin Baybars’ ‘Little Place in Gospel Oak’ -

    This toyshop used to be one of the highlights of a stay in London when I was a kid, and it looks like it hasn’t changed since. Worth a visit with your own children.

  22. bigfoot.js

    jQuery plugin for making footnotes in text nice. I guess this is the thing I see in a few places that I keep meaning to find out what it is.

  23. Hrothgar Stibbon Leathergoods

    Some nice briefcases, bags, all made in Bristol. (via Men’s Flair)

  24. Shetland Jumper - Leith Clothing

    Simple, made-in-Scotland from Scottish wool, not expensive. (via Grey Fox)

  25. Your Job is Political: Tech Money in Politics

    Whether you agree or not with the activities of the VCs mentioned here, it’s good to be reminded that working for VC-funded startups doesn’t only make the VC richer (if all goes well), but funds whatever they want to spend their money on. Do you know what that is?

  26. h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions · GitHub

    With a bunch more links at the end.

  27. The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Software

    Specifically, interviewing programmers.

  28. The Phone Screen - Joel on Software

    Interviewing.

  29. Mens Vintage Clothing - Suits - Harris Tweed Jackets

    UK online store of used jackets, coats, etc, reasonable prices.

  30. Shoes that look better with age… - Page 757 - superdenim - superfuture

    Lots of very nice brown leather winter boots.