Links
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Google Sightseeing
Gobsmacked. Imagine when the rest of the world is photo-mapped at Google.
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BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads
So close. Otherwise fab idea greatly marred by not splitting MP3s into movements and including the announcer’s long introduction! Doh.
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Tom coates passed me (2 June 2005, Interconnected)
Matt Webb on his book collection. Great stuff. At least as interesting as Nick Hornby’s fun ‘The Polysyllabic Spree’.
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Michael Tsai - Blog - My New Backup Strategy
I’m always intrigued by other people’s Mac backup strategies.
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Blogsonstage
Hosted service for theatre-oriented weblogs. Needs a nicer front-end, but fairly early days.
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Stay Free! Daily: Radio Free Clear Channel
I’m fascinated by corporations trying to appear anti-establishment, and this is an awesome/scary example.
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Switch with Which? | Compare tariffs | Which? Tariff Selector
Which? magazine’s mobile phone service chooser - what’s cheapest for you?
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Prepaid GSM, the mobile world around you - www.prepaidgsm.net
Lots of info about pay-as-you-go mobile services around the world.
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HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - Global GSM Prepaid Overview
Reviews of international pay-as-you-go mobile servies, desperately in need of an index.
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Abusing Amazon images
Reverse engineering the URLs of Amazon’s product images
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Bumpus
Yay! Congrats Jay and Fi (and Felix).
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ZabaSearch.com Free People Search - Gyford
Apparently I still live in Houston and I was born in 1946. A bit scary this kind of thing…
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Subtraction: May 2005 Archives
Interesting weblog design. Monochrome, looks like print. Mostly yum.
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Love letter to Broadway
Richard Eyre on ‘Guys and Dolls’. I *love* ‘Guys and Dolls’.
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The Tofu Hut - Monday, May 09, 2005
Huge categorised list of MP3 blogs and other sites with free MP3s.
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Armando Iannucci - That’s enough entertainment, thanks - Telegraph - 2004-04-12
How we’ll never read/see/hear everything we want to, and how we should cope with that. Too. Much. Stuff.
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EXCELLATRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2
Must get round to trying this some time.
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Lime Tree Pantry
Yummm. Lovely, lovely pies. (I had the Salmon & Broccoli - huge chunks of salmon, perfect pastry.)
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The Independent Online Edition > Enjoyment - Oasis: Mad for it? Not me
Paul Morley on Oasis
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The Number One Songs In Heaven: Boogie Friday
God, I love it when that happens (see my comment). Happy happy.
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Dracula Blogged
Another historical/fictional diary as weblog… Bram Stoker’s Dracula, just starting.
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Battered footballer on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
There’s a game in here somewhere… Flickr snap!
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LRB | James Meek : Crocodile’s Breath
Fascinating book review of ‘The Subterranean Railway’, about the London Underground.
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Teenage Kicks 3000
More Peel sesssions. I must have been dozing to miss these.
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Right place, right time, wrong speed - The Peel Tapes
MP3s of John Peel shows, sessions, interviews, etc.
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The Observer | UK News | Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel
Me too. I get twitchy when I see people taking lots of flights because everyone else will have to pay in the end.
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Webby Awards
Yay, JamieOliver.com won a Webby (but not the “People’s Voice” unfortunately - must have been close)!
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evhead: Running your company on web apps
Includes a couple of web-hosted services I hadn’t come across before
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The Great British Kitchen - Seasonal Dishes Calendar
Which food’s in season each month. Because us non-gardening, supermarket-using city folk have *no* idea about this kind of stuff.
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Wonderland: storTroopers are back..
Yayy! About time!