Links
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Slashdot | DHTML Utopia
Review of a book on “Modern web design using JavaScript and DOM”. Ajax and stuff. Sounds good.
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I was never any good at sports… | Ask MetaFilter
Recommended sprawling post-modern novels, for if I ever finish the ones currently on my shelf. (via Chris, not Tom Carden (my del.icio.us feeds are all a blur))
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Dejal - Time Out!
Break-enforcing thing for Mac OS X. Liking it more than MacBreakz - more modern and more free (but no random exercise suggestions).
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Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times
Tom Standage on why you’re an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.
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MAKE: Blog: HOW TO Fix Your iPod FireWire Cable
Make is often fascinating. Sometimes it’s like this, the most pointless “HOW TO” ever: fix a broken thing with glue.
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Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet Online
Interesting guide to going on holiday differently. (via Nick, who describes it as “Psychogeography and Related Bobbins for Beginners”)
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: The Impact of Inequality by Richard G Wilkinson
Sounds interesting - equality matters more in a society than the absolute level of wealth.
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MacBreakZ - Your Personal Ergonomic Assistant - RSI prevention and recovery - Macintosh
I’m giving this a go, in an effort to prevent my shoulders seizing up. Good, although the app feels a bit old fashioned.
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Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom
Some handy tips about coding, systems and organising companies. (via Yoz)
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Rootburn: Pressure Connections
Maybe we need something like A Month Of Unsubscribing - unsub from one RSS feed a day for a month. As a start. (via 2lmc)
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Anil Dash: Pay By The Hour
How to tell if you’re not charging enough for your freelance work. I’m bad at this.
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SiteVista
Another Browsercam alternative.
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Browsershots
Open-source, distributed processing, free version of Browsercam. Probably more interesting than useful. At the moment.
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Google Maps - Salton City, California
The road layout of an American town founded in the 1950s, which failed to develop. (via Google Sightseeing)
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Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online
Nice Basecamp-esque web service with a meaningless name I’ll forget. So I’d better link to it. (via Foe)
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Tom Mangan’s Fun With Google Maps
Especially the Space Shuttle tracking, and some Javascript for laying other images on top of Google Maps. (via Haddock)
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Pepys’ Diary: In-depth articles
We just started a new section of the Pepys’ Diary site. Hopefully there will be more lengthy articles to come…
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BBC News | Technology | Uproar grows over GTA sex scenes
Sex scenes require a *higher* rating than blasting innocent people with a variety of weapons!? Weird Americans. (via Anne Galloway)
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The economics of movie popcorn pricing (kottke.org)
See my two comments… so I don’t lose those links again (the rest of the page is by weird popcorn-eating people).
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Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head: The Personal MBA 40
I love stuff like this, The Books You Must Read for any particular field. Business, in this case. (via Kottke)
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Super simple clearing floats - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style
A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)
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Complete Wikipedia on your handheld or notebook in TomeRaider format
Oooh… another reason to upgrade my Palm. (via Chris)
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One month of speed reading [Tesugen]
Weblog post. To read later. Quickly.
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B3TA : Features : How to Poach an Egg
I tried the cling-film method last night - worked, although it’s a little tricky to extract the egg intact.
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Speed Reading, Reading Improvement and Assessment - AceReader Software by StepWare, Inc.
I read annoyingly slowly.
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FooterStick › css › Learn › solarDreamStudios
Make a footer stick to bottom of the viewport where appropriate. (via blech)
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Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net
Lovely PHPy and Ajaxy calendar interface. Mmmm, the web’s getting nice.
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Six Apart ProNet Articles - yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
May give it a whirl sometime. (via Yoz again)
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Wage Slaves from 1UP.COM
I’m always amazed by this kind of stuff: people paid peanuts in Asia to earn money in computer games (via Yoz).
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Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image - Photomosaic
Wow, that is impressive. Haven’t seen a photomosaic that detailed before.