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  1. BBC Sport | London beats Paris to 2012 Games

    Bugger. If only there was some way one could opt out of paying for this nonsense, or put my money toward something actually useful.

  2. Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr

    Now coming to London… very tempted…

  3. BBC - Radio 3 - Mixing It - 8 July 2005

    Brian Eno will be interviewed on Mixing It this Friday.

  4. Blacktree - Forums - View topic - Doesn’t work under 10.4

    Yay, new version of iTunes-BPM which works under Tiger (helps you set the BPM of tracks by clicking in time).

  5. Maratz.com » archive » Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer

    Summary of IE CSS hacks. Nice to see them covered clearly in once place.

  6. JavaScript Archive Network

    New, could be handy when it fills up a bit.

  7. AoG.2y.net -> Children’s drawings in the subway!

    Korean schoolchildren’s nasty anti-Japan drawings.

  8. Google Maps - 30.209688,47.394472

    Burning oil fields in Iraq from a satellite photo. Zoom in. Amazing.

  9. David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University

    Basically, “learn to think for yourself.” (And the page is crying out for more leading.)

  10. Trains :: NYC High Line, 02/2004 (kottke.org)

    I love the subtle navigation on Jason’s new photo library pages.

  11. Wonderland: The thing about videogames

    Love this. Like Alice, the cheesiest US TV dramas can make me cry. So when will I feel for anyone in a computer game?

  12. Harris Cyclery Articles

    Oodles of articles about adjusting bicycle bits and other bike topics.

  13. Anti-mega: web affordances

    Chris on two quite nasty things I hadn’t noticed about Bloglines.

  14. Keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish - Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website

    Ahh, Wired lore. Lots to read. Big slow page.

  15. The knowledge: Euan Semple - Inside Knowledge

    Interesting article about the philosophy of the BBC’s head of knowledge management.

  16. Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours

    More Ajaxy stuff to investigate when time allows.

  17. Sign Builder 2.0 - Industrial Signage

    Excellent web tool for generating PDF signs with standard icons. Hours of ANSI standard fun. (via Cool Tools)

  18. Stella Artois - Le Sacrifice , ad, advert | visit4info | TV/Cinema

    I don’t like adverts, but I do smile when I see this fake surrealist film ad at the cinema. Nicely done.

  19. LRB | Patrick Wright : Cubist Slugs

    Particularly for the first two-thirds, outlining the fascinating art-influenced history of early camouflage. Worth a read.

  20. Eclectech : the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards

    Wonderful. The only thing that would make this better was if it was released and got to Number 1…

  21. The Speculist

    Future-oriented weblog I hadn’t come across before.

  22. London Pirate Radio Listings

    Loads of them, slightly varying formats.

  23. Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates (Anders Jacobsen’s blog)

    Another one for the ever-growing “some day” file.

  24. Jeffrey Veen: Designing for the subtlety of Ajax

    Also to read when I get round to doing Ajax stuff.

  25. Alex Bosworth’s Weblog: Ajax Mistakes

    For the future, when I get round to playing with Ajax.

  26. iTerm (Terminal replacement for Mac OS X)

    “Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity” could be handy.

  27. ‘I will get three friends to sign up to the Proportional Representation Groundswell’ - PledgeBank - Tell the world “I’ll do it, but only if you’ll help”

    PledgeBank, a new site from MySociety. Comes with Brian Eno’s pledge about proportional representation.

  28. How to make web buttons in Adobe Photoshop

    Cheesy, but first page is handy and quick.

  29. Systm

    Wonderfully professional and geeky video how-to guides, like how to build a MythTV box. (via Wonderland)

  30. BulletinBoardForum.com - 44 - Ukelele player

    Just neatly competent at first. But after a while his hand speeds up until you can’t see it any more.