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  1. Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover by David Carr (NYT, Registration required)

    A magazine will customise the covers of its subscribers’ copies with a satellite photo of their individual homes.

  2. Why Free Software usability tends to suck by Matthew Thomas

    Especially:

  3. Mogi: Second Generation Location-Based Gaming by Justin Hall

    Sod location-based reviews of restaurants

  4. Paul Murphy’s exhibition of 150 drawings of Apu from ‘The Simpsons’

  5. Ooh, ex-Wired UK editor and the man who knows more about Mars than you, Oliver Morton, has a weblog

  6. ‘The Design of Sites’ is 700 pages of well-presented web design common sense. Good stuff.

  7. Lovely (but slow) spatial visualisation of Google News stories

  8. Brad Choate’s handy guide to using Movable Type to create a site’s static pages

  9. Matt Haughey’s article about using Movable Type to do non-weblog things

  10. Simple and useful CSS template for font sizes

  11. Setting the maximum width of HTML/CSS elements

    I’m not quite convinced, but I may need to find this again at some point.

  12. Interesting Ian Jack article on how kids describe past events in the present tense

    Although it tails off into irrelevant self-indulgence towards the end.

  13. Surprisingly OK article about the McSweeneys/Believer network of writers and the nature of how members of such ‘cliques’ influence each other

  14. TrailBlazer is an OS X web browser with an awesome graphical History display

    A bit buggy at the moment.

  15. QuickSilver is very much mouse-free Mac interface fun

  16. What she said: Eeek!

  17. Interesting but impossible to read map of Hackney’s crime hotspots

    They make the mistake of emphasising ward boundaries — which no one outside local politics knows — over roads.

  18. Good notes from Jeff Veen: “When Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.”

  19. Pixy’s very handy collection of web authoring bookmarklets

  20. My photos from London Transport Museum

  21. I’m proud to be a ninja with dwarfish tendencies. I think.

  22. These replacement iPod batteries really do the job

    I’ve just got 12 hours out of one charge, rather than the two I was getting before!

  23. Strangely inspiring article about a woman moving to a remote Finnish island

    She appears to have the Internet, so it could be worse.

  24. Green ISP - sustainable and generally nice-looking ISP

  25. Fascinating interview with a US medical corps soldier in Iraq

  26. Justin Hall’s donation-ware guide to Tokyo

  27. How to glue This to That

  28. Stewart Butterfield’s buddy icon mosaic

    What’s surprising is how much familiar faces (friends’ icons and re-purposed images) stand out from the crowd.

  29. iGetMovies saves QuickTime movies from your browser window to your Desktop

    At bottom of page. For Macs.

  30. How to type French characters

    Because, like Blech on 2lmc, I’ll need to do this on a Windows machine at some point and I’ve never understood how to do that.