Links
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What’s the best way to structure large JavaScript/jQuery projects? - Quora
I asked a question on Quora and had some helpful responses.
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Full service digital marketing agency - 3Sixty
Was trying to remember the name of this agency in Bristol a while ago. They mentioned me on Twitter and so I was reminded.
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OCAD - Graduate Studies - MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation
I hadn’t heard of this Master of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Interesting.
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Why trust Facebook with the future’s past? — Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard
Twitter and Facebook are storing what will be our history, but it’s not accessible. (Which is why I have my own public archive of my Twitters, and rarely use Facebook.) (via Preoccupations)
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Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun’s logs
Least baffling description I’ve read. Phew. (via Infovore)
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Dell U2410 Review
Keep thinking I saved this when I first read it and then I find I haven’t. Now I have.
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Extremist Makeover - Homeland Edition - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/19/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
On the “ground zero” mosque nonsense. Even better than usual. (But video won’t play in UK. Why can’t I show this to people? How is this good for the Daily Show?)
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OCA TAoP Assignment 3: Neighbourhood - a set on Flickr
A set of lovely photos of Walton-on-the-Naze, better than the usual holiday snapshots that crop up there. Very British Seaside.
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ESPN - OTL: The Franchise - E-ticket
I like American football but have never played Madden (until trying the demo this evening). I enjoyed this article about the history of the game, and trying to make the first version work on early consoles.
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BBC - About the BBC: BBC Genome: The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC
Wonderful - the BBC is OCRing and making computer-readable, all the programme listings from the ‘Radio Times’ going back to 1922. (via @catfunt)
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William Gibson on ‘Zero History’ in London, October 2010 - Intelligence Squared
Click, booked. (via @moleitau)
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Alex’s django-taggit at master - GitHub
Hopefully more reliable than whatever that other django tagging app I used a while ago was.
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I have tried to be happy with django, I really have. : django
I’m finding this quite reasoned discussion about what’s good/bad about Django really interesting.
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Instapaper: Simon Reynolds (Phil Gyford)
I put all those Simon Reynolds articles in a folder in Instapaper and here’s the RSS feed. (I’m phil@gyford.com on Instapaper, btw, but don’t use it a *huge* amount.)
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Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture | Reynolds: The History of Our World: The Hardcore Continuum Debate
More Simon Reynolds to read after that last lot, looking back at debates over The Hardcore Continuum. (via Beyond the Beyond)
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Energy Flash
More from Simon Reynolds on “the Hardcore Continuum”.
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The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Issues
Search the page for links to seven articles (and an introduction) by Simon Reynolds from 1992-2005 on the “hardcore continuum”.
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When Internet businesses don’t work out as planned… | Ask MetaFilter
I’m fascinated (and horrified) by this kind of “Internet business” which… does nothing but SEO, “content generation”, ads, auctions… what’s it *for*?
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BeaTunes ~ build better playlists
Interesting metadata editor/finder for music in your iTunes library. Can also do some kind of Genius-like playlist creation.
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LRB · Rebecca Solnit · Diary
If you’re feeling too happy, well worth a read. “A bayou redneck told him: ‘Osama fuckin’ bin Laden could not have imagined, planned or executed more devastation than BP has.’”
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This Window: Close It - Safari 5 Port of Helvetireader
Helvetireader as a Safari Extension, yum. The version of Helvetireader I’d been using was quite old; the latest one is gorgeous.
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The Online Photographer: The Best Photography How-To Books
Excellent, a short list of practical photography book recommendations by someone who knows their stuff.
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DecisionLab » FacilitationCamp
Next Friday and Saturday in Vauxhall. Might be interesting / useful? (via @wendyinfutures)
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陳 Jon Tan
Designer, web stuff, based in Bristol
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The best five books on everything | FiveBooks
“Every day an eminent writer, thinker, commentator, politician, academic chooses five books on their specialist subject. From Einstein to Keynes, Iraq to the Andes, Communism to Empire. Share in the knowledge and buy the books.” Interesting. (via @suegyford)
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BLDGBLOG: On the Road Again
A bunch of links that, while fascinating, you shouldn’t read if you’re feeling at all pessimistic about things. This isn’t the future I was hoping for.
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London Cycle Hire Explorer
Tom Taylor’s nice site for exploring data about London’s cycle hire stations - graphs showing their activity over time.
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HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
Even if you don’t use the whole thing, it’s a nice collection of handy little JavaScript/CSS/.htaccess techniques in one place.
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My Cooking Diary - Granola bars
Beautiful HTML/CSS/Javascript coverflow-like site that you’re better off looking at than me trying to describe. (via Daring Fireball)
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Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Boing Boing
As @revdancatt said, news organisations should do features with custom designs, like Boing Boing have done with this one. Lovely. Interesting. Doesn’t look like the front end to a database.