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  1. A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld | The New Yorker

    Good, sad, alarming read about an unsolved probably-not-suicide.

  2. Find Cities in Your Budget - The Earth Awaits

    Filter global cities by cost of living, crime rate, pollution, language, attitudes, healthcare, etc.

  3. Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

    On San Fransisco, tech billionaires, and Solano County. “…tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism…” “You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires…”

  4. The Cheap Web

    “The websites of Patrick Colison, Edward Tufte, and Phil Gyford are thriving examples of cozy HTML cabins.” (via Web Curios)

  5. Links on Status and Culture - January 2024

    For the entire section on Macro vs four kinds of Micro culture/content.

  6. Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food | Food | The Guardian

    I only knew fragments of this story about Nicholas Saunders, Neal’s Yard, Monmouth Cafe, etc.

  7. RIP Neil Kulkarni – Electronic Sound

    Oh, awful. I liked his reviews in The Wire enough that his was the only name I’d recognise. And then his mailing list was good too. (via Things Magazine)

  8. When One Grows Tired of Cyberdog - The Fence

    Clive Martin on Camden. (via Web Curios)

  9. Jerome McGann · Umbah-Umbah

    The first first review of Greil Marcus’s ‘Lipstick Traces’, from 1989.

  10. Click Around, Find Out – Dirty Feed

    “If you stopped cultivating your own website because you really liked Twitter, or because Google Reader was shut down, did you really care about it that much in the first place?” Yup.

  11. Zed - Code at the speed of thought

    A new text editor. Looks interesting. (via Guy Moorhouse’s newsletter)

  12. From-To

    Find equivalent neighbourhoods in different cities. interesting to explore but I doubt the hamlet of Hinton near Hereford is really like Shoreditch. (via Waxy)

  13. British Record Shop Archive

    Lovely. (via @gilest@mastodon.me.uk)

  14. Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

    I’ve been tinkering with Nova and I liked this detailed write-up of trying out other text editors.

  15. Thomas Hirschhorn @ Kochi Biennial | The White Pube

    On critiquing art, energy vs quality. (via FaveJet)

  16. I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian

    The article is, fortunately, more positive than the “outdated” in the title would suggest.

  17. Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.

    I love this – so 1990s – but also, if it was “like a virus”, it was a virus that no one noticed and had no effect on anything. (via Web Curios)

  18. Language Transfer

    Free audio courses for several languages. “Memorization is the most inefficient way of remembering.” (via Reddit somewhere)

  19. Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2023

    The Happiest Time Of The Year. I’ve only heard a small handful of these, and not often.

  20. furialog - everynoise.com · 4 December 2023

    Sad about the layoffs but also sad that everynoise.com (and the playlists?) may now disappear.

  21. Wilder Mann | Charles Fréger

    Photos of people across Europe as “the savage as it survives in local popular traditions”. Fascinating, and also I might have nightmares tonight.

  22. Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia

    Wonderful. “Listen to the sound of Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit…” (via Things Magazine)

  23. The 88x31 GIF Collection | Part 1

    I love these. (via Waxy)

  24. Mirrorshades

    Free online edition of the 1986 cyberpunk anthology: Gibson, Cadigan, Rucker, Bear, Sterling, etc. Not the most readable format however. (via @bruces@mastodon.social)

  25. 30 Years of Writing on the Internet - Longreads

    On how internet writing is never reviewed, or treated seriously, until it’s in book form. A bit like internet video not being as “proper” as TV. (via Web Curios)

  26. A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker

    On AI’s effect on programming, but also good just on enjoying writing code. (via everyone)

  27. Gale Walden · Diary: David’s Presence

    On being a partner and friend to, and remembering, David Foster Wallace.

  28. TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama bin Laden

    Once again, we can only imagine journalists in big media outlets having this much clue about the internet.

  29. theprintspace | Art Printing | High Quality Photo Prints

    Someone recommended this place for getting prints of photos, but I forget who.

  30. Brick Borrow

    UK-based subscription LEGO set rental.