Links
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Google Image Labeler
I’m trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it’s getting a fair amount of it.
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Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service
Congratulations to Matt, Matt and co! (I did a bunch of the site’s HTML/CSS work a while back.)
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‘Beyond good and evil’, Prospect Magazine issue 138 September 2007 - Printer Friendly Article
Another interview with writer Nicholas Mosley.
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True to Life - Metatheory and the Writings of Nicholas Mosley
Interviews with Mosley, whose books I’m liking a lot so far (‘Accident’ and ‘Impossible Object’).
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YouTube - 9 Nine Minute Sopranos (Complete 7 Minute Version!)
Brilliant compilation of clips from the Sopranos, telling the entire story veryquickly.
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World Clock
Statistics (based on estimates) updating in real time about deaths, diseases, disasters, etc globally.
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Internet Theatre Database
“Archiving and catalogizing professional theatre.” Yes, “catalogizing.” Looks to be Broadway only at the moment
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IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information
Comprehensive (goes back decades in great detail) but Broadway-only theatre database.
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StageClick.com
The “local theater version of IMDb.com”, local being three US cities.
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How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders
Merlin Mann’s collection of tips and links on doing better presentations. Part of me would like to do presentations so I could do good ones. (via Danhon)
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A 15,000 year tour of Manhattan
Great illustrations of what New York might look like at various points after human life disappears. (via Boing Boing)
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Common User: Contact Us
Summing up 90% of media’s over-excited attempts to be “interactive”. “Why not tell us what you reckon.”
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Kultureflash - Headlines from London
Nice looking online mag of interesting things to do in London. Not that I’ll get round to many of them. (via Haddock)
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Stuff
Paul Graham on how much stuff we accumulate and suggestions on how to stop. (via Rodcorp)
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63xc.com—Reviews | Midge Bar
I have one of these (with a bike attached) on its way. Includes a guide to setting it up properly.
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jQuery for JavaScript programmers
What it says, by Simon Willison. For next time I delve into jQuery. (via Yoz and Blech)
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Family Tree - Comics UK
I hoped this existed and it does! Wonderful. Try ‘Buster’ as a title. Awesome.
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BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart - Script Formats
Different formats for film, TV, radio and stage scripts.
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Celtx - Overview
Free, good-looking software for writing scripts, storyboards, planning productions, etc.
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Doonesbury (db930827.gif)
“Egg freckles?” To save me finding it again.
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Freesound :: home page
Creative Commons licensed sound effects.
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Gapingvoid: how to be creative
Looks like a good read. “Just get on with it” probably summing much of it up.
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Historischer Zollsstock
2,000 years of history on a 2 metre folding timeline. £15 in the National Portrait Gallery shop. I like long-term timelines.
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Blueprintcss - Google Code
In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
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Taskpaper
To-do list organizer application for Mac which uses plain text files. (via Daring Fireball)
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DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS.
Read books, bit by bit, day by day, by email or RSS and gradually read a whole book.
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Art and Heart: The End of Term Four, part II
Isabel’s experience of the end-of-year-one LISPA project, and the horror of shifting deadlines.
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BBC News | Grammatical Triumphs
Needs more frequent updating, but otherwise splendid.
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Company v Sole Trader > the tax comparison (£3,000 tax saving ?)
Another comparison, with example figures for different levels of profit.
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Password Composer - generate unique passwords for web sites
Sounds very nifty. Haven’t tried it yet.